Judge, 1898-05-28 · page 4 of 16
Judge — May 28, 1898 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several satirical pieces and illustrations typical of early 20th-century humor magazines: **"A Mean Chicagoan"** depicts a domestic scene where a husband denies knowing his wife's first husband, claiming he "never put me on to anything about his domestic affairs." The satire mocks how men avoid discussing women's prior relationships. **"The Tax on Bachelors"** is a poem lamenting women's independence, listing named women who've left husbands or rejected suitors. It satirizes anxieties about women's newfound freedoms and marriage refusals—likely reflecting early feminist movements. **"A Glittering Bunco Game"** and other brief comic sketches mock working-class characters and con artists through dialect humor common to the era. The overall tone reflects upper-class satirical attitudes toward marriage, gender roles, and lower-class life typical of Judge's demographic.
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WISHED TO BE SURE. ETH was sent to the closet to get a bottle of raspberry - shrub. There happened to be two bottles on the shelf; one with a crooked cf neck and the other a demijohn. Being in doubt as to which one to take, she called to her mother, “Do you want the round. shouldered bottle, mamma, or the one that’s got a dress on?” TOO GOOD TO KEEP. Young housekeeper —" Do. you keep fresh vegetables?” Old grocer —“ No, mum; not if Ican help it, I sell ‘em A MEAN CHICAGOAN. Doxson—" Did you know your wife's first husband?” 7 Howson (with a si¢h)—"" Yes; but he never put me on to anything about his domestic affairs, confound him!” right away.” . THE TAX ON BACHELORS, WONDER what all of this outery means Bat, ladies, excuse me ; the fault is with you. ‘There's Jenny and Alice and Florence and May, In the up-to-date city of pork and beans; It’s the other foot now that’s wearing the shoe. Who made my ice-cream, like my hopes, melt away; Why the new woman frets and the new woman frowns I've courted you all, the pretty and plain, Who rode in my cabs to the door of the church In this the great hub of civilized towns? The brunettes and blondes, but always in vain. Till [ at the end was left in the lurch. Forsaking her bloomers, forgetting her bike, There's Carrie, who left with a Texas chap ‘There's Sarah and Jane and Mabel and Sue, And shutting her books, she goes on a strike. And lives in a town that's not on the map; And Clara and Bess and Dorothy too, Over heads of the men she poises an axe And Geraldine next, who turned from my side And Annie, who leads an exemplary life And raises a cry for the bachelor tax. To tread through the world as a book-agent's bride. In a little brown house as a parson’s wife. al Then Julia, the jade! who left me for Jim, > Though heaven knows what she admired in hia She takes boarders now, by the day or the week, And bosses poor Jim, the mild and the meek.. Maud married a ‘* cop,” who treads like a lord Through his down-town beat in the fourteenth ward. . Five children has Prue; their ringlets are red As the curls I caressed on her own fair head. Ladies, Lord bless you! I'm with you, I say, But please turn your guns in the opposite way ; Then imprison or threaten with noose or knife, And tax, ostracize, or banish for life, And hamper with costs or fetter with fines, From the mountains of Maine to the Florida pines, The girl who refuses my merits to see, The girl who has heart to say no to me. A GLITTERING BUNCO GAME. o=—_— I. Reo Rvax—" Say, Isaac; here's a didmond what I'm goin’ ter t'row away.” WHAT HE MOST DESIRED. ‘+ AH." SAID the convict hopelessly, “if we could only have some of the outside bene- fits!" “ What would you most prefer. my good man?" * inquired the visitor. “Well, sir, between you and me, I think I could be bappy with a chainless wheel.” IN THE WOMAN'S CENTURY. Mrs, Strong (in 1907) —" What do you say his name is?” Mrs. Knicker—" Simpson.” Mrs. Strong—* But what was his name before he was married?” IL. HocaN THe RAT—"' Harry op, fellers, before he finds out it’s on'y a bunk av glass.” comicbooks.com