Judge, 1898-11-19 · page 3 of 14
Judge — November 19, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **Top cartoon "Judged by His Style"** mocks social class judgment based on appearance. Characters discuss a tailor's creditworthiness, concluding people are evaluated by their clothes rather than character. **Middle poems** ("The Maiden or the Mitten?" and "A Juvenile Philanthropist") are light verse—one about romantic choices, another about a child avoiding Thanksgiving turkey to prevent overeating. **Bottom cartoon "Couldn't Place Him"** features a father quizzing his son about Spanish military ranks, suggesting the boy's education is incomplete or confused. The humor derives from the child's inability to identify a "robes-di-capello" (likely a fabricated term), playing on period anxieties about American children's knowledge of foreign affairs. These reflect turn-of-century middle-class concerns: social pretension, education, and proper conduct.
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JUDGED: BY HIS STYLE. low on earth does Bluffem manage to get credit at * The tailor found out that he lived at the Asdorf-Waldoria,” But how does he manage to bluff the hotel people 7” Brown —“" I suppose they judge him by his clothes.” THE MAIDEN. OR |THE. MITTEN? WHICH is better, say, Even then we our When by love we're smitten, Real opinion smother ; That we should receive Whichever one we get ‘The maiden or the mitten? We wish it were the other. If it be the cause Of sorrow or joy’s laughter ‘That we cannot know Until some time after. Thus it ever is When by love we're bitten ; Which is better, then, The maiden‘or the mitten? GKORGE mIRDSEYE, AS IT LOOKED TO HER. MARGIE, having seen a very fat man on the street, says, “He must have dwowed awfully fast out sideways, ‘tause he'd dwowed all his potits full.” A JUVENILE PHILANTHROPIST. Mother —" No, Tommy, you mustn’t have any more turkey. I'm afraid it might make you sick.” Tommy —“ Well, if folks didn’t get sick the doctors couidn’t have any Thanksgiving.” COULDN*E PLACE HIM. Willis | it ‘il $3 pies Yes Lrrti Patsy (studying natural history)—" Father, what snake {s it {hat goes by the name of cobra-di-capello? Do you know ?* Mr. FINNEGAN —'* Shure now, Pats admiral or a Spanish gineral.” yr you hov the. “Thot‘nanie-sounds very familiar, but O can't reminiber-now fer th’ loife uv’ me whether he's a Spanish ° comicbooks.com