Judge, 1898-06-25 · page 3 of 17
Judge — June 25, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("A New Term")**: Shows children playing baseball, with dialogue about an "unfair ball." The humor involves children misusing sophisticated vocabulary—one child references "Tennyson's 'tenebrae,'" suggesting pretentious language among youth. **Middle Section ("From Judge's Dictionary")**: Satirical definitions of words like "Tongue," "Lips," and "Feet," presented with mock-erudite commentary typical of Judge's style. **Bottom Cartoon ("Then He Succumbed")**: Depicts an "Eastern Traveler" confronting a coachman, with dialect humor. The caption references social tensions around employment of colored workers in the North, likely satirizing class or racial anxieties of the era. **Right Section ("Colored Gentleman and Nigger")**: The text describes a Bostonian's difficulty employing "colored coachmen," ending with a story about a child's language and parental embarrassment. The page reflects late-19th-century American social commentary on race, class, and language.
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. | A NEW TERM. Carcuer— Whad meks yo" use de term * unfair ball,” Mistah Empiah 7” Unrine —"* "Kase I'se noticed dat de word fou/ am kalkerlated tuh destrack de playah’s ‘tenshun.”” FROM JUDGE'S DICTIONARY. [ONGUE — An instrument of speech by which some people get into and others get out of trouble. Lips—Humanity's coral strand, beautiful to behold when the ripples of good-nature’s sunshine are wafting o'er them, but having quite a different aspect when pas- sion’s tempest is 1g Hands—The tools by which some people do the || good they undo with their tongues. In society they are a material help to some, while to others they are a source of continual worriment. Feet—Members of the human corporation by some believed to have been given us for the purpose of exer || cising our experimental faculties in ascertaining the smallest possible compass into which they can be com- | pressed ; and by others thought to have been made to | be stepped on. They are often used as a means of expressing indignation, THEN HE SUCCUMBED. EASTERN TRAVELER (in Dead Guich}—" Gentlemen, I demand to know who you are, and I protest against this treatment [LEADER (umorously)—" We ur a lot uv congressmen, I'am th’ speaker uv th’ house an’ no protests don’t go hyar at all. Hair—A way by which persons, who would other- wise be thought well balanced, disclose incipient evi- dences of mental unsoundness. Teeth—Articles of human furniture which con- tribute greatly to personal beauty, and of which the most peari-like specimens are found in novels and = in dentists’ show-cases. rowan cLavTon savace. COLORED GENTLEMAN AND NIGGER. AW -KNOWN Bostonian has been in the habit of employing colored coachmen. Since the advent, however, of a son and heir he has found it impossible to induce the sable charioteers to remain more than a short time. ‘The cause of this has been that the infant terrible has persisted in calling the men niggers, an insult which has been followed by immediate notice of leaving. At length the youngster was told that the next time he made use of the expression he would be whipped. ."What am I to call them, papa “You must call them colored gentlemen.” ‘The boy promised and a new coachman was engaged. One day paterfamilias and his hopeful went to the stables to give some orders, but as they were leav- ing the boy squeaked out in his shrillest treble, “Papa, what a nice colored gentleman that nigger is!” White coachmen are employed in that stable now. comicbooks.com