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# Judge Magazine Page 115 - Analysis This page contains three separate satirical pieces typical of Judge's humor: 1. **"Accounted For"** (top): A social cartoon about a woman learning to ride a bicycle, mocking both her slow progress and her instructor's competence—reflecting the bicycle craze of the 1890s-1900s. 2. **"Cause for Emotion"** (left): A story about Uncle Enoch encountering what he thought was a ghost on a country road, later revealed to be a pale young man studying for the ministry. The humor derives from the deacon's dramatic overreaction. 3. **"Thick-Headedness"** (bottom left) and **"Obsequies of a Base-Ball Nature"** (bottom right): Brief humorous vignettes about a foolish sign-painter and office employees discussing funeral attendance. The page reflects turn-of-century American leisure activities, social anxieties, and workplace humor rather than explicit political satire.
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ACCOUNTED FOR. * Maud has been trying to learn how to ride a bicycle for four weeks now." "Is her instructor stupid ?” Ernet—* No—handsome.” CAUSE FOR EMOTION oy you know what a moderate sort of man Deacon Slocum has always been ?”* be- gan Uncle Enoch as he came in and reached behind the kitchen door for the boot-jack. “ Nothin’ ever seems to surprise him out of his steady-goin’ jog-trot, as it were, and it has been said that if he was to meet a ghost in the middle of the road he'd act jest as if he'd been lookin’ for it all the time and kinder liked ghosts for company, anyhow. But this afternoon, when I was over at his house, I saw him worked up con- siderably, to say the least.” “ How did it happen, Enoch?” asked Aunt Celia. “Why, you know that pale, spectacled young man who has been boardin’ at the deacon’s for the last few weeks? He said he was studyin’ for the ministry, if you re- member, and was out here in the country for his health. Waz-al, while I was there four city de- tectives suddenly came to arrest the young man. While they were all in the lower part of the house he jumped out of the up- stairs window and broke his leg. and when they grabbed him he stabbed ‘one of ‘em pretty bad. They shackled him after a desperate struggle and then searched his belong- in’s, and all the time he lay there bound hand and foot and cursin’ and swearin’ like an out-and- out pirate. In his trunk they found a lot of coun- terfeit money, three or THICK-HEADEDNESS. Fritz (the barber, indignantly)—"* Vell, py Chawge! If dot fool sign-painter hasn't put up dot sign mit der hand point- ing across der shtreed. Now 1 hafl got to move mine ‘over dere—all on account of dot t'ick-headed sign-paint four revolvers, a slung-shot, a gag, a bottle of poison and enough dynamite to blow up a dozen houses. I tell you, the deacon was terribly flustrated over the way he had been taken in and the risk he had been runnin’! “T should think as much! What did he say ?” “ Why, he threw up both hands and said, real good and loud, ‘ Wa-al, I do vum !'" TOM PF, MORGAN. OLDER THAN HE THOUGHT. Trévvet —" Miss Cahokia has become a new woman ™ \e isn't as old as that, is she?” OBSEQUIES OF A BASE-BALL NATURE. Orrice-noy —"' I'd like to go to my grandmother's funeral this afternoon. Employer —"* It seems to me that you have had a good many deaths in your family since the New Yorks got Rusie back.” - | comicbooks.com