Judge, 1896-08-29 · page 3 of 16
Judge — August 29, 1896 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three satirical pieces from Judge magazine (page 131): 1. **"Unkind"** (top): A sketch mocking rural visitors to the city, with a woman apparently arriving by wagon, suggesting unsophisticated country folk. 2. **"The Superfluous Coin"** (left): A humorous piece about penny economics, satirizing the impracticality of pennies in daily transactions. It mocks how pennies accumulate without real utility—streetcar conductors, shopkeepers, and others refuse them or treat them dismissively. 3. **"An Impertinence"** (center-right): A brief dialogue joke about romantic assumptions. 4. **"A Rattled Rural"** (bottom right): Depicts what appears to be a bewildered country person encountering urban life, likely poking fun at rural-urban cultural differences. The overall theme reflects Judge's characteristic mockery of class distinctions and rural-urban divides common in early 20th-century American satire.
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UNKIND. City sroxce—"'I should have thought they would have sent a wagon to meet us, When they came to the city I had a friend meet them to tell them that I was out of town.” THE SUPERFLUOUS COIN. +A PENNY saved”—is a nuisance! It won't mix with any coin of the realm, It wears out your pocket-book and makes your fingers smell of copperas; it won't do to offer to a kid, or a beggar, or a tramp; or to a boy who carries your grip to the ferry. It won't buy a stamp. If you offer it to your batcher with some silver to pay for your pound of round steak ys, “Oh, fifteen ‘l do,” and hands it back to you with an air, The dago who supplies ith coal says, “Two half a busha twenty-sixa chenta all lighta,” takes the quarter and leaves the penny on the 1a) flit ni dumb-waiter. \ MAA if If you put your pennies Pani in a copper-bound penny- i bank and wait for them to accumulate, then some day a street-car conductor makes you feel small by laying them “Frenched” mutton - chops four, five! All right. They won't take these from me, but I s’pose I'll have ter stand it.” Then he contrives to drop one in the slats of the attracted the attention of every passenger in the car he fered nickel, hands you back your four pennies, goes out on the platform, and rings a bell. Whether chestnut or otherwise you do not know. You can save a penny on two fares to Brooklyn —but who ever wants two fares to { 7 Brooklyn? You can buy a Ss Ls postal-card with a penny— SONY ae x but who wants a postal-card ? Your newspaper at a penny UNCONSERVATIVE ECONOMY. goes on your bill, so there is Mrs. Comex —"* Vat are you doing here oud in der hall— nothing left for you to do reading py der flat-owner's gas?” with your pennies but Mr. Conen —** Yaw !" Put "em ina slot Mrs. Conen—" Come inside und let id shine in; you're And draw out—what? losing der use ohf der flat vat you're baying reut for !" MADRLINE onvIS, out in his hand like ¥ and saying, * One, two, three, AN IMPERTINENCE. 46] THINK,"she said earnestly," that a woman who truly loves a man always has his best interests at heart.” “Perhaps,” he answered; “ but ”. “ What were you going to say?” “If that's the case, what makes her marry him?" wooden foot-mat, and having 3M graciously accepts your prof- A RATTLED RURAL. Uncux Critrers—'* Dern this night bike-ridin'! I've got ‘so skittish o' those leetle bull’s-eye danger-lantrins thet I can't go through me own barn-yard withaout dodgin’ lightnin'-bugs.”” comicbooks.com