Judge, 1897-07-03 · page 10 of 16
Judge — July 3, 1897 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical cartoons critiquing religious hypocrisy and social attitudes of the era. **"A Missionary Meeting"** depicts a stern, self-righteous female missionary distributing temperance tracts on a streetcar to disreputable passengers (drunks, thieves). The satire targets her smug moral superiority and condescending evangelicalism—she distributes tracts while physically recoiling from the very people she claims to help. The passengers' indifference underscores the ineffectiveness of such performative charity. **"An Uncommon Case"** satirizes a judge and officer discussing a "non-support" case, suggesting legal absurdities in domestic disputes. **"Reversing the Positions"** is a poem about class anxieties—an English gentleman lamenting his daughter marrying across class lines, ultimately accepting it for love, mocking both aristocratic pretension and romantic idealism. The overall theme: hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and the gap between moral posturing and actual human decency in Victorian-era society.
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1 40 uae THE KID, THE MAGNIFYING-GLASS, AND 2 THE FIRE-CRACKER MAN, read this and profit re thereby.” over a At the sound of other the voice the crowd service ta threw a look of maud- ts lin curiosity at the little Abb woman, who only You d smiled and gave her- Serb self up to diligently 9 perusing the awlul jointed facts set forth regard- the wa ing the sure end of the rigs drinker and swearer, The stern-visaged Am female was evidently award delighted with the re- pagne sult of her missionary The zeal, She settled her- covery IRE CRACKERS self comfortably back do con WeRGhte in her seat, regardless Ali of the fact that her is! & RARGAIN sombre garment Bens brushed a drunkard on Ch one side and a thief on her, \- Any 1, THe poy (behind the fence) —* Tl git square wid eres ase oe forth we dat ole man Cohen fer clubbin’ me yist'day._— with regarded theen- privat tire car-load with an made A MISSIONARY MEETING. SCRIPTURAL SANCTION. i : " F Poxer Powe (scofingly) —"* Yer can't Cla N THE very heart of the slums, in the make me b'leeve keerds air wicked.” quarre vicinity of one of the large hospitals, a Da, THuepuy—" Why not. pray?” can n it aw Poker PoweLt—" Dont it tell in the bible vagral horse-car stopped to admit a woman refined spout Gabriel's wasp? ee in manner and clad in a simple dark frock. tioog With this single exception there was not a respectable, scarcely a sober, man or woman REVERSING THE POSITIONS. on the car, At the next corner the car again (Being one side of @ conversation om July sth.) stopped, this time admitting the typical city . ALBION lost another daughter missionary—a large, gaunt woman, forbidding \ Yesterday. Who could foresee that : F When she crossed the nahsty water in manner and self-righteous in expression. ‘The result of it would be that? In one hand she carried a large black bible, Certainly / never thought to in the other a rusty bag of tracts. re ibe eon from my single chartbood i i nd a port of trans} Sweeping the entire car with a glance of ly Ralip of English girlhood. general condemnation, she finally fixed her vk- the little lad; ite her, Eyes like corn-flow'rs out of Devon, E babes gaze Ss ha thee oa arevna eh (That's the shire to which I owe her.) and pulling outa Ruge tract om sDe. evs ol ‘Where they smile it's simply heaven ! intemperance and cursing, she offered it to ‘That profane? You do not know her! her viz-A-viz, saying in a harsh, stentorian Such a day for such surrender? : Hang tradition! I'm for scorning WON: P Aught that stops love's legal tender. “1 earnestly trust, woman, that you will ‘And, besides, she sails this morning. What would my revered forebear say, < ‘That helped win the revolution ? : Don't much care, but he'd, I dare say, CS expression of beneficent com- Fee san tat Cea a 4. Placency, a look that plainly said, Risk the loss of her transcendence, “You can see that I never So I signed my—and who wouldn't ?— let an opportutity slip.” Declaration off dependence 108 Every man and woman = present were evidently rejoicing that the tract had not been given them, and wondering at the AN UNCOMMON CASE. Jupcr —"* What's the charge, officer 2” Orricer Kitueeatn—* Non-support, yer honor.” meekness of their fellow-pas- senger. But the end was not yet. As the recipient of the tract rose to leave the car she stopped direct- ly in front of her benefactor and said in a crisp, fresh voice, “Madam, I thank you very much for this tract. It is the first one I have ever received, but I have given away many, for I, too, am a city missionary.” The joy of the passengers was distinctly audible, and the owner of the rusty bag grew Jupce—‘ Why, I thought this case was acommon drunk.” vividly red as one of the best- Orricer Kitureat — "No, yer honor — uncommon known and best - beloved mis- droonk.” heats : JU0r—"* Then why do you say non-sapport?* sionaries of the east side stepped Orricer KitereatH— "Shure, yer honor, he wor too from the platform, tract in hand. droonk t’ aven hold on to a lamp-posht.” JRANNETTE ROBINSON MURPHY, comicbooks.com