Judge, 1898-10-15 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 15, 1898 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several distinct satirical pieces. "Judge's Favorites" features a photograph of a woman with a poem praising her beauty. "The Lessons of the War" mocks a Spanish official's boast about naval construction plans, with the cartoon's joke being that enemy ships need not fear damage from vessels that will never actually be built—satirizing Spanish military incompetence, likely referencing the Spanish-American War. "The Deacon's Invention" depicts two figures examining a mechanical contraption, with dialect humor suggesting rural characters and their invented "contribution-box." The page also includes a section on "Men and Women" offering cynical observations about marriage and women's agency—typical period attitudes presented as social commentary.
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“BUT IF THE SALT,” ETC. Some women of the scripture days Were of both fame and worth ; Now there's Lot's wife deserves our praise, For she was ‘‘the salt of the earth." MEN AND WOMEN. A WOMAN is never supremely happy till she has given aman the power to make her supremely miserable. When a man marries his first love she usually finds cause to wish she had been his second, or even his ‘steenth. The wise woman never flirts with a man she distrusts. A woman has no right to marry a man until she loves him well enough to refrain from marrying him at all. seruex se, svuiis 1, THe neaRDED LADY—"* Hello, Skinny! Full. back on a foot-ball team, or have you just escaped?” Photo, by Pach, JUDGE'S FAVORITES, ALICE JUDSON. Alice, Katrinka, girl or boy, Your doings are a lively joy. ‘They have a Sousa-march-like swing, Catching the fancy. there to cling. Tf any captious critic man Denies this, he’s a charlatan. BY A WHEELER. THE heat gives torture, — Humidity smothers ; The sun's a scorcher— But there are others. FELT A DRAUGHT. ETERS had been frozen to death in the Klondike and the body was received at his home in due course of time. His relatives decided to have him cremated. After the body had been in the fur- nace a short time one of THE LESSONS OF THE: WAR. ‘WE ARE considering plans,” began the Spanish official, “for the construction of a new navy that will eclipse anything the world has known. The vessels will be so light as to have a speed of forty knots an hour. This speed will be attained by the marvelous lightness of the vessels, and the lightness will be due to the fact that they will carry neither guns nor armor of any description.” “Well, er—er—how would they be able to do the eitaeants opted tb much damage to an enemy ?” doce te wes'tl pas done “ Ob, that's a matter of no importance. The beauty ‘i : af the scheme is, How would an enemy be able to do 2. Tue Livinc sxeteton—"‘ Neither, I'm rodman for thar When all present were any damage vo them?” surveyor over dere.’ shocked to hear these words : “Here, close that door; I feel a draught.” THE DEACON’S INVENTION, Parson (after the services)—* Dat contribution-box yo’ inwented proobed a great success, deacon.” Deacon Krars—" Hit shorely did. Dem niggahs couldn’ posserbly resist droppin! er nickle on de strength ob dem combernations."” comicbooks.com |