Judge, 1898-01-08 · page 18 of 18
Judge — January 8, 1898 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This page presents multiple cartoons using wind as a comedic device to satirize everyday urban life and social types. The cartoons mock: a messy householder (Jones) whose ash spreads everywhere; Irish immigrants (Pat, Killearty) stereotyped with thick accents ("bedad," "Oi") fleeing to escape harsh weather; a census clerk conducting interviews disrupted by wind; a woman evicted by landlords who blame "wintry winds"; and a reference to a Populist political parade whose members supposedly have wind "whistling through their whiskers" (likely mocking farmers or working-class Populists as rough/unkempt). The humor relies on period stereotypes—particularly anti-Irish caricature with exaggerated dialect—and class-based ridicule of Populists. The recurring wind motif creates loose narrative cohesion across unrelated vignettes of urban mishaps and social pretension.
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Puzzle picture? No ; only Jones emptying his ash-pan on that windy morning. WESTERN CENSUS CLERK—' You were about to tell me your nationality when the wind interfered.” Pat—" Make it Irish descent !" Mr, Charlie Smith meets with a windfall while in Monte Carlo. “His friends call it blind luck, Tue noss—" Phere yez goin’, Killearty 7” Kiutcarty—"' Home, bedad'! Phin th’ wind is thot sthrong thot Oi can't . it’s th’ place farr me.” WINTRY strains yua bear nswer to “why” I gave you notice to ther from the city limits, I respectfully | wind that blows nobody good.” BOARD OF HEALTH.: It was mean that the wind should blow all the dead leaves pare a that tree on Brown's house, especially when he had just it, n those musical strains [ hear on 's a populist parade over there, and the through their whiskers.” ‘Sackett & Withelins Litho & Pig Co. Rew York, comicbooks.com