Judge, 1897-04-24 · page 4 of 20
Judge — April 24, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple brief satirical pieces typical of Judge's humor circa early 1900s: **"One Comfort"** jokes about credit—tradesmen won't extend it, but milkmen will "chalk it up" (record debt on a slate). **"Precautionary"** mocks parental anxiety: a mother keeps her daughter indoors, having just learned measles can strike twice. **"Judge's Favorites"** celebrates three actresses (Beaumont Sisters and Josephine Allen) performing at the Red Globe theater. **"A Run for Their Lives"** uses wordplay: actors were "chased out of town"—literally fleeing, not enjoying a successful theatrical run. **"Strange Gods"** satirizes religious hypocrisy: a child observes her father says grace over oysters but her mother "says hers in her heart," implying the mother is more genuinely pious. **"In Milwaukee"** uses ethnic dialect humor (German accent) for a husband's domestic complaint. Other pieces mock Easter hat expenses disguised as church donations, populist pretension, and musical performances. The cartoons employ period stereotypes and simple domestic/social observational humor typical of early Judge satire.
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270 uae ONE COMFORT. HEN tradesmen give no credit And full is sorrow’s cup You needn't pay the milk- man, He always chalks it up. PRECAUTIONARY. Mrs. Upton—"1 see sow haven't your dolly out to-day, Gracie.” Gracie—"No ; |have just learned that the measles can be caught a second time, and they're in the neighborhood.” JUDGE'S FAVORITES. THE PRIME ESSEN- BEAUMONT SISTERS AND JOSEPHINE ALLEN. TIAL. Three of a kind, and that kind the best, & Under the. Red Globe | ‘stand the test: oe HAT constitutes Wen the col (ree-listers tok” Warmly applaud, and thrice recall a good joke? Th aumonts, Josie Allen, and all, “The right sort of As the Non-Peroxide Sisters. fellow to tell it to.” IN MILWAUKEE. Mr. S. Keaur—"Augusta ! I vant to dake my bath, alreatty. Go dell der shanitor to durn on der beer.” FOR CHURCH PURPOSES. HUBBY made her keep a book So that in it he might look To see to what wile’s expenses might amount. When she bought an Easter hat She knew how to put down that— It was thirty dollars charged tochurch account. HIS IDEA. Little Rily Kaw (a Kansas lad) — “ Say, paw, what is a ‘superfluity’?” A RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. “Did the play have a good run?” Mr. Kaw (a prominent populist)—“"A neck- “* No, but the actors did. They were chased out of town.” tie an’ a full beard on the same man, my son.” « STRANGE GODS. ORIS came to the dinner-table for the first time and was so awed by her father's ceremony of saying grace that she refrained from comment until she reached the nursery. Then her feelings ex- pressed themselves in a long sigh and a remark to her nurse : + Papa says his pray- TOO FAR. He —“ They have carried these musicals so far that it is positive tort- ure to listen to them.” She —*" Yes; there ¢ some people who be- lieve they are a whole orchestra, simply be- cause they in their eat . A QUERY. ers to his oysters, but 2 mamma says hers in HEY rail at modern her heart.” fiction 5 - And mark its dire re- = - b EXPLAINED. . “Sa sets diction, Se] F GOD weally did Tis sendencles; cand make everybody, said little Grace, watch- ing the turning off of a Jew peddler, “den 1 dess he made dat ugly man in de dark when he couldn't find his specta- cles,” cults 5 RAN \~ NN : Sut when you come to weigh, sir, BOOTS WERE ALL RIGHT. The thoughts and Ther bar-tender allowed that you had a little account ter settle wi" me.” i f aunt ter settle wil me.” words and acts, ‘a-as! consarnin’ a leetle account you've gotter settle wi’ me fer goin’ ter be < full las’ nite an’ laceratin’ ther sheets w ; Ts modern fiction baser Winskey WierLer (iumbly)—* L weaken, pard! Enny gent thet don't know enuf ter take ther ‘Than certain modern spurs offen his boots w'en he gits atween ther sheets orter settle. W’ot's th’ dammidge ?" facts? ow. comicbooks.com