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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon depicts an intoxicated sailor stumbling past a lighthouse, illustrating the caption "INTOXICATED SAILOR—'Waterish pretty cold, but if kin shim to light-boosh it be all right.'" This is straightforward humor: a drunk sailor, slurring speech and barely able to walk, claims he can reach the lighthouse despite his obvious incapacity. The joke relies on the contrast between his confident boast and his pathetic physical state. The surrounding text includes various brief satirical items typical of Judge magazine—social commentary on contemporary issues like Governor Pingree's stance on cigarettes, divorce procedures, and bicycle safety. These are light, topical jabs at public figures and social trends rather than coherent political arguments. The humor is primarily observational rather than deeply political.
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THE SOROSIS WISDOM. uage. THE QUESTION has been discussed by Sorosis, “Are the innovations of modern life beneficial to home life?” Home life must keep up er with its surroundings, whatever the progress they make; otherwise the PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. ine will be so unattractive that everybody who can will get away from TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. it. Shall the home content itself with the flint and steel when it can have GWITED STATES AND CANADA tH ADVANCE i One coos one year, ores numbers gee the modern match almost without cost ? One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.56 One copy. for thirteen weeks - 23, Including the Cunistmas Juoce. FOR KIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS —Te alt Soreien countries im the postal union. $0.00 ‘a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JupcE Bur-prNc), Corner Fifth Aven \d Sixteenth Street, New York. 6B" Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly 1m the world. (8 NOTICE TO PURLISHERS.—The contents of Juoce are protected by copy: eognt in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be Promptly and vigorously prosecuted. T MAY have occurred to some that the new pulpit is as sensational as the new journalism, : DAN SICKLES, we imagine, is always ready to remark to Death," You keep off; I'm a reaper myself.” eee [® MAY be said of Mr. Lease, as was said of Sairy Gamp's Mrs. *Arris, “I don’t believe there ain't no sich pusson.” see YOUNG LADY who removed her hat at a recent play was married within a month and she hasn't had a divorce to this day. HE SULTAN, we are told, goes to bed at dawn and arises at the subsequent eight o'clock. For a man of his conscience why so much rest? Saray HE FACT that some Mis- souri farmers lynched two innocent men should do away with lynching forevermore— after, that is to say, the law has hanged the farmers. eee ET US BE FAIR. In reviewing the adminis- tration of the outgoing Mr, Cleveland there can justly be only the most extravagant praise of Mrs. Cleveland and the babies. CAN the influence of. the silver senators when we re- flect on the spread of the Russian thistle. They are not much to begin with, but they spread and permeate. all right,”" cee HE FORTUNE of six hundred thousand dollars left to T. B. Aldrich is of itself a great poem; but if it spoils the gentleman for further work it will be a very bad one. DETROIT GIRL who married a prince and eloped recently with a ¢+IZ ANSAS, properly edited,” says the Washington Sar, “might be one of the most brilliant states of the union.” She certainly has the requisite brains. She was born into the union with a population of adventurous thinkers with hard heads and brave hearts, and she has more ideas, good, bad and indifferent, than any other state. Put her against South Carolina and the two would lick each other in twenty minutes. SOME FOREI Louis Napoleon, backed by Austria, sent an army into Mexico during that trouble, and Secretary Seward after a time sent it back home. That is worth remembering when the impassiveness of foreign powers is discussed in connection with our relations with Cuba; and it is always safe to assume that European impassiveness as to American affairs will cease whenever that condition of things seems to be safe. OVERNOK PINGREE enactment that will send to jail the person who smokes cigarettes SHIPWRECKED. Y Tammany 1 yt Or POueL InToxIcaTED saton—" Watersh pretty cold, but if kin shwim to light-housh ‘Il’ be nN dee many Nes state administrations, the JUDGE presents its congratulations to the coun- try and the world, ‘There was no balm in Gilead, and there is no cement that can bring back this foulness to its old estate. SOME CUSTOMARY NAKEDNESS. A BACHELOR DIN presence of a few women who dance without their clothes on, and TWO STATES. SOME SUGGESTIVE HISTORY. POWERS were not “impassive” during our civil TOO MUCH OF PINGREE. of Michigan says he will be glad to sign an and the man who sells them to him. The governor ought to have come over on the Mayflower, It was the puri- tan idea that whoever did as we didn’t ought to be shot. Undoubtedly cigarettes are bad; but is it right to pun- ish the many who use them to a reasonable degree in order to reform the few who would die of their idi- ocy if they didn't smoke at all? A DEAD TIGER. THE DISSEVERED FRAGMENTS of Tam- many are c: ling one another thieves, liars, murderers. de- faulters, and many other things very shocking but— we must say,in justice to the x SR Ses several sides of the argument —susceptible of proof. As assumed the right to make national as well as city and ER requires as an unavoidable accessory the sing a few songs equally without protection or adornment. In this town the women are shocked by the entrance of the police; and in Pittsburg they is not strange, in view of the fact that it is the only defense she has, are horrified when the guests meet their friskiness half way and try to be .. familiar. It is difficult to reconcile these improprieties of the police and $+ BEWARE," says James M. Barrie, “of a pale woman with a large the guests with the modesty of the professionals; but why not have a petite.” Itis like a little poem from one of the Brownings, and wire-gauze net, after the manner of the late James Owen O'Connor—and of course its exact meaning can never be reached. It may only be criti then have the professionals die, as he did? cised for its resemblance to the words of the usual fortune-teller, * Look out for a dark woman with a slight mustache and chin-whiskers. wandering gypsy affects to be pleased with her humiliation, That THE GUILT OF OPPORTUNITY. ce YERKES of Philadelphia declares that at least one-third of the RS. STETSON read a poem before the society of pilgrim mothers the business of his court comes, in one way and another, from the use of other day, and these are a few of its lines : the bicycle. At first glance this seems to be an arraignment of the vehicle ioned ; fact. that ev y rides it, w y i ee mentioned; but the fact that everybody rides it, whereas nobody used to ity °s wide as the world is wide ride it, fixes the responsibility on the populace rather than on its means of sk at the peacock in his pride! locomotion. Persons who are bad with the wheel would be bad without it. It is not the means to an end that carries responsibil y; it is the human nature that belongs to cv many of us—and that, alas! belongs to Pbila- ine argument! delphia about kaif as much as it belongs to Chicago. Think of this logic! Because a peacock struts therefore all men are vain ? Out upon the weakness of the average femi comicbooks.com