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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 150 This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's humor: **"You Ought to See My Baby!"** features a conductor boasting about his baby to a lady, who responds with sarcasm. The joke mocks new parents' tendency to bore others with endless baby talk. **"Both to Go It Alone"** satirizes a recently married couple (Bagley, married sixteen years) who already squabble over domestic responsibilities. **"Right Girl—Wrong Shop"** depicts a restaurant proprietor dismissing a waitress seeking better wages, reflecting labor tensions of the era regarding fair compensation. Other brief satirical exchanges mock regional dialects and domestic situations. The cartoons target recognizable social types—boastful parents, argumentative spouses, and exploitative employers—using humor to critique common social behaviors rather than specific political figures.

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uae >» YOU OUGHT TO SEE MY BABY! SQ CONDUCTOR was punching his ringing way ‘Through a motor-car on a wintry day. When a lady stopped him and spoke, Said she, With a tone triumphant, ** You ought to see My baby t “* She's the cunningest baby you ever saw, | And all through the household her will is law ; \ She's as pretty and cute as a child can be— So every one says—and you ought to see \ My baby ! | ‘She's got just the prettiest, brightest eyes, | Like two twinkling stars in the evening skies ; t And she laughs and crows with such childish glee— | Oh, Mister Conductor, you ought to see My baby ! a * Her skin is as soft as the softest silk, | And ber four new teeth are as white as milk ; | And her baby talk—it just sounds to me | Like the sweetest music; you ought to see My baby ! | * She has curly hair of the brightest sheen, | And the daintiest, darlingest, dimpled chin, SUPERLATIVE ADVERSITY. | With the pinkiest fingers and toes—dear me ! Siiine—" Oh, dents 1 1 eat the candle T can't tell you alls, bat you coght:to see I'll freeze to death, ' If I don’t eat it I'll starve My baby ! to death.” | Oh, the mother-love that can trace its birth To the hour when heaven sent down to earth Her baby girl! In her rhapsody by Keckwood. She cannot help saying, " You ought to see BOTH TO GO IT ALONE, S$ FAVORITES. My baby 6s] SHOULD have thought that Bagley CAMILLE D'ARVILLE IN ‘THE MIGHWAYAAN.” Dear mother, so glad, as you closely press would get a tandem for himself and | you say? With er ‘Vo your heart that babe, with your fond caress, wife instead of two single wheels.” Help yourseit to our whole bearts’ treasure Love her dearly and well ; some day it may be 7 ‘ | Yours already was our applause, ‘That the angels la Reaves will want 80 sce Oh, no; Bagley has been married six- | Cami. moat charming of al oitaws, None baby, teen years." | id.us up on King Love's highway waver wanpen A SNOYW-FLAKE, THWART the winter dusk its white shape trailed, Like some regretful ghost of autuma’s tears, A flower, the night-wind found, that long 1 had paled, Lost 'mongst the leaves of half-forgotten | years. JOnN DAML WHITE. | GENIALITY — A quality often found j in men whose whole mental and | physical organizations are kept vigorous : by diligence and temperance, and in sim- | ple-minded men who love fun and comfort without falling into vice or folly. | ] | | | | | | T RESTAURANT PROPRIETOR (sorrotw fully no longer required after to-night, Miss Pech.’ Miss Prec —"" But, sir, you advertised for a handsome waitress, and I'm sure "—— KESTAURANT PROPRIETOK—"' That's right, but you are too handsome ; all my male patrons are lovesick over you, and ain't eatin’ anything. " Seek a place where the boarders pay by the week — you'll get a percentage there of what you save the house.” RL—WRONG suop. * It pains me very much to tell you that your services are NO PARTICULAR FONDNESS. Boston girl (at Newport) —“ Do you like tutti- fracti?” Chicago girl—* Oh, yes; 1 like bim as well as 1 do any of the foreigners.” . TROUBLE OF A NEW NATURE. AROMATIC SIGNIFICANCE. Mrs. Frost — "Don't you dare aunt Fama ‘our folks <I! well, Willie ss ; soitelll see you haven besa cilaxiag Willie —“ AN but mamma — she’s got billiard again, sir. I smell cloves.” trouble this morning.” &, AN INK-WELL. comicbooks.com