Judge, 1897-12-11 · page 4 of 19
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several short humor pieces typical of Judge's satirical style: **Main cartoons:** - "An Anomaly" and "Dick Was Smart" mock romantic relationships and women's rejection of proposals - "Fertility" jokes about soil quality using a worn hitching post - "English As It Is Found" satirizes dialect humor, featuring a Black woman mangling legal terminology ("jedge uf reprerbates" for "judge of probates") - "Her Medical Advice" presents Irish immigrant malapropisms (Mrs. O'Riley's illogical medical guidance) - "With the Thermometer at Zero" depicts frontier characters enduring extreme cold - "A Mild and Balmy Joke" shows a sheriff confronting a cowboy who shot a Native American, treating it casually as a "joke" **Satirical targets:** The page relies heavily on ethnic/racial stereotypes—Irish, Black, and Native American characters are presented through exaggerated dialect and ignorance for comedy. These pieces reflect late-19th/early-20th-century American attitudes normalizing prejudice as entertainment. The frontier humor trivializes violence against Indigenous peoples.
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374 uae AN ANOMALY. LOVE is the most peculiar thing You ever heard about, For often when you've fallen in You very soon fall out. FERTILITY. SO THIS is mighty good soil," said Farmer Green ; “see that tree?” “Yoo.” “ Wacal,that wuz a hitch- in’- post when ‘twas set out.” DICK WAS SMART. **P)ICK proposed to me last night,” confessed Madge to Elizabeth. “Let me congratulate you, for of course you ac- cepted him ?” ; . “No.” ENGLISH AS IT IS FOUND, i io Ren' tno ** Mister, is you de jedge uf reprerbates?” “Y > on didn’ t reject him ? “Ves, I'm the judge of probate.” “Ye, ** Well, sur, an ‘ooman up de street died an' lef" dese little chillun : “How did he take it?" infidels, an" I wants ter be de executioner.” JUDGE'S FAVORITES, "Oh, he was perfectly ; ; ; ISABEL IRVING IN “A MARRIAGE OF Conventence.” lovely about it, and I almost worship him for it. He said he knew girls liked to have it to say With courtly grace you move, as though that they have had a great many offers and that he should not despair, but he hoped that when Wen Louls Quinte was tiggand folly fashion. Thad refused enough proposals to ‘And yet, O gentle Isabel, satisfy me I would intimate the fact to him in some way, and then he would propose again and we could be married quietly and settle down. Do you think it would be forward in me to let him know that | Thave now refused all the offers I care to?” $0etd Seuet'in the present dveel, i And charm us; white but feigning. your own passion. ay Mi afte QUITE A SPATTERING. ' aa | GUESS God got tired when he made the sun and moon,” said Willie, “and threw away the stuff he had left over, and that just spattered everywhere and made the [74 stars.” THE THREATENED RAIN. KISSED her and two roses red O'er her white cheeks their crimson spread, As spreads the rosy light of dawn ‘The snowy hills of winter on. HER MEDICAL ADVICE, Mrs. O'Riley (tenderly, to Norah, who has just recovered from a severe illness)—" Don't ate any- thing, darlint, while yer stomach 's impty. Jist wait till it’s full, an thin phwat ye ate won't hurt ye.” And then I saw her soft blue eyes = Begin to cloud as April skies ; WITH THE THERMOMETER AT ZERO. And so, to stop the threatened rain, “ By golly, bat yer doan’t cotch me sufferin’ wid no cold feet no more !"" I kissed the trembling thing again. Lam YAIRCMILD, ND BALMY JOKE. Suerirr (of Frozen Dog) —"' 1 hear you shot a Injun yesterday. Sech things don't go round here no more, an’ I want yer to understand it.” Beonco Pere (apologetically) —"* Oh, 1 didn’t shoot him to hurt him any — three times in the right leg an’ once or twice through the left — that was all. "Twan't nuthin’ but a joke." - | comicbooks.com