Judge, 1898-04-09 · page 3 of 18
Judge — April 9, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 229 This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"A Warning"** (top): Shows a domestic scene where a man warns about marrying after death, with a woman (appearing to be "Sister Jane") commenting on marriage prospects. **"Undoubtedly"** (middle-left): A brief text joke about an "illiterate lover of law and order" claiming legal ideas could prevent urban crime. **"Wouldn't Work"** (middle-right): Satirizes a French-speaking travel party whose demands for hot water frustrate maids, leading to absurd morning chaos and the phrase "Buffalo Bill" becoming a puzzling household command. **"Science Versus Brains"** (bottom): Shows an uncle explaining siphon mechanics to a nephew using a barrel, contrasting scientific knowledge with practical intelligence—the uncle admits he'd need brains (not science) to actually operate it. The humor relies on period domestic situations and class-based stereotypes typical of early 20th-century American satire.
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A WARNING. al 3 ; Bonpy—* Don't you know that folks can’t get married after they are'dead, Mr. Littlepate 7" Mr. Lirriepate —'* Why, of course Ido.” = , igts t Bowny—' Then what are you dying to get married for, as Sister Jane says you are?”. WOULDN'T WORK. UNDOUBTEDLY. ‘ AN ILLITERATE lover of law and order, lately “speaking in meeting,” declared, “If socialist ideas once get prevalent the streets of our cities will run with arnica.” QF A small party traveling abroad only one lady. spoke French. Weary of the many demands made on her, she tried to tell the rest how to ask the maids for hot water,in the morning. None of them could remem- ber l'eau chaud until all were told: to: think of the wild west and then to call out “Low show!", The next morning every one of them shouted “ Buffalo Bill ” at the astonished maids, and ‘later repdrted that. it was ho SCIENCE VERSUS BRAINS. CottEcr NEPiEW—" This, uncle, is what is called a siphon—you see, the cider in the barrel has now got down below the spigot level, ; and in order to get it out I take a rubber tube, insert it into the barrel Unctz Asner —'* I see, sonny —and only for brains T wouldn't till it meets the fluid, apply suction to the free end, a vacuum is formed, know how to get it oiit.” the fluid rushes into the vacuum, and the atmospheric pressure sustains ; it until the pail is filled, You see, uncle, only for science I'would not know how to get that cider out,” comicbooks.com