Judge, 1896-12-26 · page 3 of 17
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# Page 431 of Judge Magazine - Analysis **Top Cartoon ("For and Against")**: Shows a tenement scene where a man argues about fire safety regulations. The joke contrasts two positions on building codes—one character defends fire safety restrictions while another resists them as excessive. This reflects early 20th-century debates over tenement house reform and fire safety standards following deadly fires that killed workers. **Dictionary Section**: Satirical definitions mocking holiday excess, Christmas consumerism, and wasteful spending patterns among the wealthy. **Lower Content**: Several brief humorous vignettes about marital relations, family dynamics, and domestic life—typical Judge magazine fare targeting middle-class readers with social humor about husbands, wives, and household economics. The page reflects Progressive Era concerns about labor safety and class tensions.
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rbrised to see you take such brecautions against fire.” “* Don'd say a vord ! FROM JUDGE'S DICTIONARY. Christmas — A day upon which some tax their good-nature, some their spiritual and others their gas- tronomic capacity, to its full extent, Holiday—A day long waited for which is mostly enjoyed in anticipation, and which seems not to have the usual quota of hours. Yule-log — A sort of wood of which a prodigious quantity is consumed about Christmas time in poems and ballads beginning “In ye olden time.” Christmas - tree — An ingenious contrivance for burning children and habitations which has long dis- puted the honors with the gasoline stove. Christmas-chimes—The modern “truce of God,” AN ENFORCED ULTIMATUM. Bapcer Ben — We'se tried all honorable means ter git ‘t we?" Dusty Donns—"* Yes ; we hain’t got nuthin’ frum de law but reppermands an’ pardons Bapcer Ben (Aoarsely)—"* Dere’s but one way, pard ; we've got ter git our saws and jimmys out ter night an’ break inter jail.” FOR AND AGAINST. Dot's a brecaution against de fire goin oudt ; dey're filled mit kerosene.” THE NEGLECTED FATHER. THOUGH Christmas fils your heart with joy And Santa Claus seems great, You never should forget, my boy, That papa pays the freight. HELPING HIM OUT. Wife— Never mind if you have failed, dear. 1 have fifteen hundred dollars saved up from the pin- money that you have given me from time to time.” Husband (joyfully) —" You make me feel easier. What a belp !” Wife— I should say so. Why, on this money I can keeo up my wardrobe for a year to come.” 7 THE ORIGINAL RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. Its passage was stopped by the president. which proclaim to the prodigal, by their glad- some peal, that on this sweet day his short- comings will not be flaunted in his face. Plum- pudding— A conspirator against digestion which it would be dangerous to introduce .into the do- mestic circle at any time other than that during which the kind- lier impulses of our nature are proof against the promptings of dyspepsia. HOWARD CLAYTON SAVAGE O THE strong- minded female you might give an “atlas of the world,” to show her how grasping she is when she wants the earth. git Pa A PARTING ADMONITION. Mrs. Jay Srp—'* Naow don’t fergit while ye're in the city tew me uv them ‘lectric-light plants we heern so much abaoul. We kin jis’ ez well raise ‘em, an’ save kerosene.”