Judge, 1896-03-21 · page 4 of 16
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from Judge combines romantic poetry with ethnic humor typical of late 19th-century American satire. **Main content:** "Thy Regal Heart" is a sentimental poem about a republican man surrendering his principles to love for a woman of higher social status—satirizing both romantic excess and class pretension. **Ethnic humor:** Multiple jokes feature Irish and German immigrant characters with heavy dialectical speech ("dat nigger," "Kgelheim," "Patsey," "O'Toole"). These reflect period stereotypes: Irish laborers, Germans with thick accents, and derogatory racial language toward Black Americans. The jokes are shallow—turning on mispronunciations, superstitions (the card-blowing), and crude scenarios (painting a goat). **Photographs/portraits:** Include "Isadore Rush" and a formal portrait labeled "Judges Favorites," suggesting these were popular entertainers or public figures of the era, though identification is unclear today. The satire's targets—romantic sentimentality, immigrant "otherness," and class differences—reveal period attitudes rather than substantive social criticism.
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A PHENOMENAL LIFE-PRESERVER. KGELHEIM (caught in a Mississippi flood)—** It's a lucgky ding for me | dot meinselluf und der insdrumendt vare alvays inseperaple, py chim !" AN ENEMY FOR LIFE. | Giles —* What grudge has O'Toole against the board of health ?” Merritt —* They made him hang out a yellow flag on Saint Patrick's day.” Photo, by Falk. | JUDG) FAVORITES. ISADORE. RUSH WHY HE DOES IT. HE BLOWS upon the cards for luck, ‘They say he is a chump ; ‘And yet the angel Gabriel Will some day blow the trump. You pay high compliments to her. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION Proprietor (of paint-shop) —* Well, my boy, what can I do for you?” Patsey —" Say, mister; wud tin cints’ worth av grane paint be enough to cover Casey's goat ?” THY REGAL HEART. KONDEAL IY regal heart, which I have dared to woo, Sways such a gentle power, and subtly new, That I, republican, am wrought to fall On bended knee and there to offer all My liberties to monarchy—in you LACKED LIFE. O'Brien—* Rather dull Saint Patrick's ?” O' Toole—* Faith, an’ yer talkin’. Wakes is as scarce as four-lafe clovers.” UNINTENDED. E REMAINED a bachelor ever, For he hated women, he said ; Yet he made one woman happy— ‘Twas the one that he might have wed. TWO EXCEPTIONS. Quiz every time Pat —* Yis, sorr; ixcipt whin it’s the grane apple or the grave. Strange sceptre is it that can thus undo My precepts hard and furnish me, in lieu, A plot to build a throne and there install Thy regal heart “So you believe in the green But, dear, I love the change ; I love the view Thy ways have opened, and Il gladly strew THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE. The way with blooms, that leads within thy hall; SEE-SAW, 1 ounsew twp Inthe tanker vegiony =" "There-acess't T 1S a contrast too intense But U'il conspire that you one day shall call DURIET (ap te ine Damrey Stern — were: Copan To strike his intellect as funny; A consort to the throne ¢! 's built unto seem to be much to see up here. ‘i PRACHGAL RAMDENT "No But there's Jous7t6’ At first he paid her compliments, Thy regal heart saw.” And now he pays her alimony. Mose. (in the rear)—" Dat nigger sgems rae - Be cae ay ter tink hes powerful swell ia dateollar I'l bet it am cellerloid, arter all, — —Dit's right ! HE PUT IT TO THE PROOF,