Judge, 1896-10-24 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 24, 1896 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from Judge presents miscellaneous satirical humor typical of the publication's style. The content includes: **Romantic Poetry Section**: "Quatrains of a Lover" and "The Old Maid" mock sentimental love literature and spinsters—standard Victorian-era jokes about unmarried women. **Brief Comic Sketches**: Several short exchanges satirize contemporary absurdities: - "They Usually Come That Way" plays on logical fallacy (twins begetting twins) - "Encouraging" jokes about a hair-restorer's effectiveness - Gender stereotypes appear throughout: women's vanity about appearance, emotional instability regarding hair, and chattiness **Social Commentary**: The humor reinforces period attitudes about gender roles, marriage expectations, and class distinctions (the farmer's servant, the hair-restorer customer). The illustrations are generic Victorian-style engravings. Overall, this represents typical early-20th-century American satirical magazine content—lightweight comedy relying on predictable punchlines about contemporary domestic life and gender relations.
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age 7 ROE Bes QUATRAINS OF A LOVER. a , S ARABS see a vision weave Their skies, so I have chanced to see A mirage far too fair to b'lieve— Love in my lady’s eyes for me. ‘When Cupid stalked my love she laid Him captive ; plucked his feathers out And stole his shafts. With these she made The fan that wafts my hopes about. A little group of loves abode Within my breast ; but when you tost The glance that set my heart aflame, Not one escaped the holocaust. LAYTON eEWnR, THE OLD MAID. Maud—" Are you never going to marry?" Miss Prim —" Never, my dear! I'm going to be an old maid all my life, and am going to bring up my children the same way.” ee Copyright by B. J. Fate. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. PAULINE TRAIN. Midshipmaiden, hail! ahoy! Whither bound? For Isies of Joy? Then, may favoring winds attend you, And your lucky star defend you~ Lest upon the Spanish Main, You tempt buccaneers again. THEY USUALLY COME THAT WAY. Dunderby —* Extraordinary story in the paper about a woman with twelve children, half of ‘em twins.” Blunderly —-" What of it?” Dunderby —* Why, | don’t see what the other half could have been ?” Blunderly (alter thinking) —"* Must have been twins, too.” ENCOURAGING. . oTHaTt hair-restorer I bought of you I found very effica- cious,” remarked Cawker to his barber. fall out ? ESSENTIALLY QUALIFIED. —"" Does th’ new hand know all about milkin’, Silas ?* etty much ; he used ter work in a pump-factory.”” Mrs, Farmer Jos Farmer Jones — HIS PREFERENCE. a ole the Kaghi of the taser #U mit Cyt THER-IN-LAW—"* Don't you know that cropping your hair so tight as that will make it LAW—* Oh, yes; but that's the way I prefer to lose it.”” WOMAN. IE. sweetly bears the burdens That'd kill man were they his ; Yet she flies quite all to pieces If her hair gets out of friz. HE KNEW. Uncle John (alter a lesson, trying to explain the whereabouts of China) —“ Now, Harry, if a man were to bore a hole down through the earth, where would he come out ?" Harry—* Out of the hole.” SHE’S INCONSISTENT. ER beauty isn’t advertised, She much dislikes such capers ; Yet very often it occurs Her curls are in the papers THE BEST SHE CAN DO. Kilduff—“ What an awful talker Miss Tungstate is. She absolutely talks all the time.” Skidmore —" Not when she eats, surely.” Kilduff —“She does the next thing to it. She eats audibly.” comicbooks.com