Judge, 1898-10-22 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 22, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page The page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Shrewd Boy"** (top): An office scene where a lawyer and two clients discuss matrimonial matters. The joke involves wordplay about "marrying" an American girl versus a title—playing on anxieties about wealthy Americans marrying European nobility for titles. 2. **"A New Arrangement"** (middle): Dorothy has reorganized her hens in a bookcase, a humorous domestic vignette with no apparent political content. 3. **"His First Question"** (bottom): A caricatured figure asks about insurance for someone caught in fire "by Santiago"—likely referencing the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, satirizing post-war concerns about liability and military violence. The overall page reflects turn-of-the-century American anxieties about class, international marriage, and recent military conflict.
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SHREWD BOY. Lawyer—" Two clients waiting for me this morning ? (Sotto vece.) Wonder what they want 7” OFrice-Boy (in same tone)—* Don't know, but it looks like a breach-of-promise and a divorce.” HIS OPINION, IVE or six villagers were sitting around in the corner grocery at Kickyhasset, swapping opinions, theories and reminis- cences, and slyly helping themselves to the storekeeper’s crackers and dried prunes, when the talk drifted to the subject of the propriety of American heiresses wedding foreign noblemen. “Wa-al,” spoke up Hi Stebbins, “let ‘um if they want to! The kind of an American girl that would marry the kind of a furriner for his title that would marry the kind of an American girl for her money that would marry him for his title, knowin’ all the time that he was marryin’ her for her moncy, well-knowin’ that she is marryin’ him for his title, an’ knowin’ that he knows she knows he’s marryin’ her for her money an’ knows she knows he knows she knows he knows she’s marryin’ him for his title, while everybody else knows it an’ knows she knows "—— “ P'tu —— yars!” interrupted old Uncle Eben Lazzenberry, who was NY | atts \ i “in Ss fi « o AX almost as deaf as the proverbial adder. “ Speakin’ of noses reminds me of suthin’ that happened in eighteen hundred an’ "—— And by the time Uncle Eben had got his reminiscence out of his system, and had been followed by Job Tuttle and he by Gabr’el Hake, the talk had drifted so far from the original subject that nobody remembered to wonder where H" Stebbins would have finally come out if he had been left unmolested. A NEW ARRANGEMENT. DOROTHY had been taken to the hen-house, and had seen the hens on their roosts, which were arranged one above the other, On re-enter- ing the house she exclaimed delightedly, “Oh, mamma! grandpa ‘s got a whole book-case full of hens.” HIT IT THE FIRST TIME. Mrs. Matchman—" Look how earnestly Rose and Mr. Beach are bid- ding each other good-night at the gate. I am sure there's something between them.” Mr, Matchman —“ So am 1; it’s the gate.” HIS FIRST QUESTION. ** Vot you t'ink ove mine son Ikey? He vas under a heavy fire by Santiago.” “* Vas he insyred ?” comicbooks.com |