Judge, 1898-07-16 · page 4 of 16
Judge — July 16, 1898 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate pieces of social satire: 1. **"Business Too Much for Her"** (top): Mocks a southern woman attempting independent business management in New York. The satire targets her inability to understand banking procedures—particularly her naive signature change and subsequent check protests. The piece suggests women, especially from the South, lack business acumen. 2. **"Judge's Favorites"** (middle): A poem titled "Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings" praising a child's innocent wisdom, reflecting period sentimentality about childhood innocence. 3. **"An Unreliable Angler"** (bottom): Depicts a rural fishing dispute where one character accuses another of burying fish to claim he caught them—satirizing rural gullibility and dishonesty through dialect humor. All pieces employ period stereotypes about women, rural folk, and regional differences for comedic effect.
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BUSINESS TOO MUCH FOR HER. OOR little thing | She was a wee southern woman, come to New York to battle with the world for a living, and she had tried so hard to master the intricacies of business, to learn the difference between bills and re- ceipts, debits and credits, drafts and cheques, and all the multitudinous things that a man ‘seems to know without learning, and she was convinced more and more that God never in- tended a southern woman to depend on her- self. She made many little slips in business requirements, of course; but the worst was the other day when she took a fancy to change her signature without notifying the bank. She had proudly made her first deposit there —her first deposit, indeed, anywhere; it was under the signature “ Lucy Preston Smith.” But all at once quite recently it struck her that L, Preston Smith would be more “ fetching,” so the elated little child dashed off her small cheques, as she did her other manuscripts, under the stylish name she had adopted. ‘What was her chagrin to have the cheques come back protested. “ Signature unknown.” And this was not all. She found to her sorrow that it costs to have cheques protested, and the mean old banks charged her a protest fee on every single one of them ! 4% Oe oa JUDGE'S FAVORITES, . y LY, MINNIE MADDERN FISKE IN ¢ ** pivorgons.” Actress intense, your tragic mood Ve saw revealed in Tess, And really thought we understood, ‘Your artist-inwardness ; But now again, as Cyprienne, ‘You challenge us to guess. “OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS.” HER eves were as biue as the heaven above, Like a halo her golden hair ; Her soft red lips were a message of love, She was three, and so daintily fair, As she stood at my knee and looked up at me, So guileless, so sweet, so refined, With a reverent heart I waited to see What would fall from that innocent mind. With a prayerful mien and a lisping air Little Belle made her thought very plain : With nothing whatever my soul to prepare, What she said was, ‘' To hell wiz Spain,” JOMN J. A BECKET, AN UNRELIABLE ANGLER. Mr, JoNA—"‘ Say, Meriar, what in thunder are you buyin’ shad to-day fer? Did you forget that I wuz goin’ fishin’ to-day ?” Ms. Jona —"* No, I remembered you was go- in’ fishin’; when I set my mind on fish I don't like to be disapp'inted in not gettin’ any, There !”” —— a - ; A SURE WINNER. Manor (behind rock) —"* Hand her de bokay first, Jimmy, an’ den t'row yerself at her feets an’ " 3 ; tell her yer life is mizzer'ble, an’ dat yer'll chuck yerself i de ocean if she don’t have yer, an’ don't forgit de sooicide racket. Dat fetches de wimmin ev'ry time.” x us ist berated comicbooks.com