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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: **"A Revelation"** mocks Stephen Crane's poetic style, using overwrought language to deflate a mundane observation—that the moon appears dimmer than the sun because it's poorly patched with "cheese-cloth." **"A Terrible Oversight"** presents working-class characters (likely Irish, indicated by dialect) obsessing over grooming rituals ("cologne-bath," "violet massage") in exaggerated fashion, satirizing pretentious vanity. **"Justifiable Professional Provocation"** depicts a mixer defending assault on a waiter by claiming the waiter's menu suggestions ("sauce," "cook me goose") were boxing provocations. The joke relies on boxing terminology and lower-class dialect humor. **Other pieces** include a serialized novel parody, a child's innocent definition of fountains, and a woman asking a clergyman to pray for her voyage to Staten Island—the humor lying in Staten Island being a short ferry ride, not a serious ocean journey. The page reflects Judge's focus on class-based humor, dialect comedy, and gentle mockery of pretension.

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~ DARK Wat her sable ro! And old Sol Fools style these But so soon Is hoisted A-smiling at And thus m: But you ma All the time He ot here first He gets rou Were procui Bargain-cou Photo. by Halt. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. LOUISE. BEAUDET. Parisian chic, with Gotham grace, Bacchante form, and dreamy face— you combine, with this addition Jual witching way b yrights Louise Beaudet Beyond approach or competition, GREAT NOVEL IN TWELVE CHAPTERS. cH wreck, APTER FIRST — Shipwrecked mariner rescues young woman almost sold as a slave. Carries het to his ship's They drift, clinging to a spar. { Chapter second—Are taken up by a merchant“yessel. Chapter third—Girl found to be captain's daughter, stolen in infancy. Chapter fourth— Captain dies. daughter vast fortune. Chapter fifth—A revengeful sailor throws suspicion of cap- tain’s death on hero, Chapter sixth—Hero arrested. Chapter seventh—Captain’s body exhumed. Experts mys- tified, Chapter eighth—Hero finds small hole in body's abdomen. Shows that artery was punctured. Death from internal bleeding. Chapter ninth—Bloody stiletto found on revengeful sailor. Chapter tenth—His guilt proved. Chapter eleventh—Hero exonerated. Chapter twelfth—Marries heroine. Is buried in port, leaving vioLeTT® MALL PRECAUTIONS. ._ ALKALI IkE—" Now, Bill, I'm goin’ ter take gas, an’ if ther galoot tries ter pull any uv my gold teeth while T'm nnconshus, plug “im.” A REVELATION. (With apologies to the style of Stephen Crane.) Involved the world ; In a thousand places Isn't Sol himself there Vou bet—and this goes to show ‘hat the bigger aperture, Styled the moon, Has been patched up with a poor Quality of cheese-cloth. Is doing business at the old stand *"Let there be light" was given ; And though night may screen him out “That the goods she wears Suape nd dreary night bes were full of holes peeped through same holes stars, as the inky curtain t you? ankind is faked. y wager that the sun when the command dl en by showin; Deicwan A TERRIBLE OVERSIGHT. Hieratine HANK—"* W'at's struck ye, Nick?” Necuicent Nick—"Sufferin’ Moses! i fergot t" take me cologne-bath an’ violet massage dis mornin !"* red from the inter for a paltry sum. Ls Mone WALDRON, JUSTIFIABLE PROFESSIONAL PROVOCATION. Tue JuDGE—* Complaint made by this waiter is that you objected to the bill-of-fare and violently assaulted him.” Mike (the mixer)—""T did objeck ter his program’ was de perfeshernal ‘defi’ dat got him a * half arm hook '!” JupGe —"* Professional defiance ?”" Mike (the mixer)—"* Yes, yer honor ; he said dat he could give me ‘sauce’ an’ ‘ cook me goose,’ er give me a corkin’ good ‘rib roast.’ See?” feed events, yer honor, but it A CHILD'S DEFINITION. . *CAN any one in the class tell me what a fountain is?” “Yeth, thir, Pleathe, thir, ith a wain- sthorm sthquirted up thwough a hole.” HER PRIVILEGE. THE way my neighbor's daughter sings Would make one tear his hair ; Yet I suppose she has the right Because she rents the air. AN OCEAN VOYAGE, . *ME-CLER MAN,” she said softly and tenderly to the assistant rector, “T have a very particular favor to ask.” “T shall be happy to grant it if I'can,"* he replied. “On Tuesday next I would like—if you will—for you to say a special prayer— the prayer for those who are on the sea.” “Certainly. Miss Richly; and to what foreign port do you sail" “Tam going to Staten island.” comicbooks.com