Judge, 1896-01-25 · page 3 of 16
Judge — January 25, 1896 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation of Judge Magazine Page 69 This page contains several satirical sketches and verses poking fun at contemporary social situations: **"Declined with Thanks"** depicts a marriage proposal rejection aboard a ship, mocking romantic disappointment. **"The State of Trade"** and **"Like City Clothes"** appear to mock economic conditions and fashion pretensions through character dialogue. **"Heroism"** satirizes young romance, with a woman rejecting a suitor's grand gestures, noting he already sees her via trolley twice weekly—deflating his romantic claims. **"The Man Who Dares"** and **"Surgical"** contain verses about masculine bravado and medical pomposity. **"Loop-Holes of the Language"** ridicules imprecise English usage through a mother-daughter exchange about linguistic confusion. **"Still Patriotic"** features an illustration with winged figures, likely satirizing political hypocrisy or nationalism. The overall tone targets courtship rituals, class pretensions, and verbal absurdities common to late 19th/early 20th-century American society.
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Brive (exasperatingly well)—"' I'm so sorry, my love. Couldn't I bring something up for you?” BaipeGRoom—"* No, thank you; I can attend to all that myself.” THE STATE OF TRADE. SOWELL, Mr. Bergelmann, how is trade with you?” “Vy. if peesness been as goot dis week as est vas next veek, vy, I dells you vat, dat’s all dere is about id!” HEROISM. Young Mr. Gilley (ardently)—" What shall I do to prove my love for you, my dearest pet ?” Miss Keedick —" You don't need to do a thing more than you do now. You forget that you travel on a trolley-car twice a week to see me.” ef 44 ~~ LIKE CITY CLOTHES. Deacon WayBACK—"' They is dudish, hey? Ma made me git um, so's they wouldn't take me fer a ‘come-on’ when I goes down ter York.” THE MAN WHO DARES. SURGICAL, [ ENVY Bings whene’er he sings, WIUERE'S the surgeon who can So much does he deserve ; Do that job superhuman— Tis not his voice makes me rejoice— Take the cheek from a man Tenvy him his nerve, ‘And the jaw from a woman? LOOP-HOLES OF THE LANGUAGE. . ‘| CALL your daughter an imp?” exclaimed Mrs. Mather, confronted by the flaming eyes and warlike aspect of her back-door neighbor. “ Zcall your little daughter an imp ? No, indeed! The dear child misunder- stood me. What I did say was that she was a nymph; and so she is, a delikit, slender, nymph-like thing "— STILL PATRIOTIC. But the mother had departed, disvenomed and subdued, and ponder- ‘ t a ‘THE SHADE OF MR. REILLY (lo the shade of Mr. Shults)- ing upon the idiosyncrasies of the English language. Dutchy! av yez make me bit another imerald Oi break yer jaw.” comicbooks.com