Judge, 1898-11-05 · page 3 of 16
Judge — November 5, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon - "Love's Labor":** A horse-drawn carriage scene satirizing courtship and marriage. The elopers (young couple) seek the hack-driver's help to escape, while an elderly figure (likely the bride's father) pursues them in a carriage. The joke concerns the financial and social complications of hasty marriages. **Middle Sections:** Three separate satirical pieces mock: - Spinsters' romantic illusions vs. reality - A political candidate's vague record ("What's the record of this man you ask me to vote for?") - "Old Songs" - nostalgic poetry about lost love **Bottom Cartoon - "Held in Reserve":** A fat philanthropist and ragged poor man discuss charity work, with the punchline suggesting the wealthy make excuses ("it's too wet to work") rather than truly helping the needy. The page reflects late-19th/early-20th-century American social commentary on class, politics, and romance.
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LOVE'S LABOR. Exorer (amazed)—"* Wh-a-a-t ! no hack charges?” HACK-DRIVER (tender orders)—"* Naw, sir; the young lady's father pays. Drive you back to receive his blessing, sir?” REFLECTIONS OF A SPINSTER. IX THE matrimonial deck the queen is more often paired with the knave than with the king. Tears are more powerful with a lover than a club can ever hope to be with a husband, A man who expects to do all his wife's thinking might as well marry a fool. Married women will sob out their unhappiness on a girl's shoulder and the next week ask her why she doesn’t get married. His sympathy is the most dangerous gift a man can offer a woman, Womankind suffers from three delusions : marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heart-broken for life,'and if the other woman were only outlof the way he would come back. A man will make a comrade of the woman who stimulates him to higher achievement ; he will love the one who makes herself a mirror for his vanity. MvaTuR mExD. THE NEW CANDIDATE. oe Whats the record of this man you ask me to vote for ?” “ He killed three Spaniards and has two Mauser-bullet wounds.” OLD SONGS. N FOREIGN lands I hear them sung, Oh, Alice dear, and rare Ben Bolt ! My songs, by lips unseen ; T hear them over waters dark While oceans roll between. I dream with every line Of mournful eyes that said good-bye, In years agone lang syne. Far from the home of youth and love, Their music brings to me The thought of things that lived before, The hope of things to be. Voice of the people, in my heart At each refrain I pause, And wish that I could make the songs, While others make the laws, OWN JAstus SERHAN. SPOILED HIS CANDIDACY. Mrs, Barrenlands (in Kansas) —"‘ So you got the nomination for the legislature? I thought Thistlefields was workin’ hard for it.” Barrenlands —“ He was, but | took a lung-tester right inter the cau- cus and challenged him to a caucus on the thing. That settled his case. Why, that feller couldn’t blow a’ candle out without gettin’ within two feet of it.” HELD. IN RESERVE. - PHILANTHROPIST—"‘And have you anything laid by for a rai Pat Ducy—"‘A whole quart, sor; an’ it’s a glorious drunk day 2° i i'll hoy th’ foorst day it's too wet to worrak.”” comicbooks.com