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# Judge Magazine Page 117 Analysis This page contains several Victorian-era humor pieces satirizing human nature and social pretense: **"Midnight Chances Without Paying"** mocks working-class attempts at gambling ("raffle," "chances") without money—depicting street hustlers and their dubious schemes. **"A Sad Case," "Reason Enough," and related items** are brief joke exchanges about human folly: color-blindness, donkeys' intelligence, and the tendency toward cannibalism when hungry. **"A Good Example"** (bottom) shows a wealthy woman lecturing a young man about George Washington's moral example, while the caption's punchline reveals her own hypocrisy: she has "not rich widows enough to go round"—suggesting she's seeking wealthy women for undisclosed purposes. The humor targets social pretense, class struggles, and moral hypocrisy through sharp, brief satirical exchanges typical of Judge magazine's editorial voice.
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—— MIDNIGHT CHANCES WITHOUT PAYING. Yes, ah’s gwine toc raffle off dat gobblah. How many chances yo" gwine toe tek 7" Mr. Jonsine (sizing up dog and gun)—"" Erbout two, ah reckon, ef ab teks enny, Mistah Snow.” Mr. SNow A SAD CASE. CAUSE FOR WONDER. THAT Cupid ’s growing color-blind Little Mary (on ber first vis- We very sadly rue ; it to the country, suddenly com- For he mistakes the long green now ing upon a flock of hens, one For love that is true blue. of which is black) —" Mamma, why is only one hen dressed in and all the others just REASON ENOUGH. Trivet —* Why is not a don- key as intelligent as a horse?" DRAWING THE LINE, Dicer —" 1 suppose it is be- : . MAY cause he lacks horse sense.” SHWE MAY be pagans, sad all that, can potentate musin sometimes indulge in such questionable relaxation as head-hunting, and occasionally, when crops are shy, we lapse into cannibalism, We have other weaknesses, but "— “ But what, your royal splendiferousness ?” obsequiously inquired the lord high cham- berlin,“ Whatever you say goes.” “ But,” continued the monarch thoughtfully, “* we don’t send comic valentines to our enemies, and I kinder guess there is still some bope for us.”” i A GOOD EXAMPLE, Sue —"' I should think a‘l young men would try and emulate the example of George Washington,” He—" But there are not rich widows enough to go round,” POINTED. Miss FaNxy Pin —"* Why don't you have anything more to do with Mr. Pincushion?" ” aii Miss Brass PIN— “Oh, because he's too terribly stuck up."* comicbooks.com