Judge, 1897-11-13 · page 3 of 16
Judge — November 13, 1897 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Page 307 from Judge Magazine - Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge's style: **"An Up-to-Date Twist"** (top): A cartoon showing two people on a tandem bicycle, playing on romantic conventions—likely mocking modern dating or relationship dynamics of the era. **"A Scientific Experiment"** and **"The Difference"**: Comic strips with accompanying verses and illustrations satirizing social pretensions and class distinctions, common Judge targets. **"Too Good to Be True"** and **"Our Country Friend Surprised"**: Short humorous stories depicting rural/urban cultural clashes—a recurring Judge theme—where unsophisticated country folk encounter city life or unusual situations. **"Where It Took Effect"**: A rural scene with working-class characters (Weary Willie, Dusty Doormat) in dialogue, using dialect humor typical of the period's working-class satire. The page represents Judge's mix of visual and textual humor targeting social hierarchies and modern manners.
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A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT. TOOK some heroines of romance From Ouida, James and Hope To view with scientific glance Through my fluoroscope. T thought their flimsy charms would fade, ‘Their character appear, ‘And show in each symbolic maid ‘The author's meaning clear. But mad anachronisms lurk In the romantic cult, And when the rays performed their work This was the dire result : Nothing was left of each fair girl Except some diamond tears, Two rows of teeth of shining pearl, A pair of shell-like eats. The marble brow without a speck, ‘The ivory arms were there ; A perfect alabaster neck ‘And long, gold (plaited) hair. ‘The sapphire eyes were fringed with jet, The lips of ruby shone ; And, hidden in each gay coquette, A heart of flint or stone. The truth at last I can but see, ‘And science seems to teach— The heroine of romance must be Only a form of speech. CAROLYN WaLLs, FoR wat Tired Peeing. Dusty Doormatt- AN UP-TO-DATE TWIST. Suz—‘' What is love 7” He—" Two saddles with but a single frame ; two sprockets that turn as one.” THE DIFFERENCE. Govenness —“ There, Clarence, look at the poor little boy—he has no stockings. you are rich !" How thankful you should feel that WHERE IT TOOK EFFECT. Weary Witte —"* Did dat foreign nobleman dat committed suicide shoot himself troo de head ?” “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.” G HE'S beautiful— that’s good to know, he’s good— that's beautiful to see } She is so good, while I'm not so, She's “too good to be true” to me. OUR COUNTRY FRIEND SUR- PRISED. THE man with the hay-seeds in his hair gazed open-mouthed at the sign “Young men’s Christian association,” in One hundred and twenty-fifth street, one day last week. Then he approached the man who had stopped to see what he was staring at. “Stranger,” he said, “ what be that house?” Der young men’s Christian associa- tion,” replied the other with an unmistak- ably Israelitish shrug. “Ye don't say,” rejoined the farmer. “Waal, now, do ye know, I jest come from Eighth avenue, an’ I hain’t seen.a Christian all the way.” “It don’t say—simply says he committed suicide by shooting himself in his bath-tub.” Weary WILLIE—"* Well, dat means in his stummick, in course. Foolish, foolish fellow !" comicbooks.com