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# Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis The main cartoon depicts "A Shocking Discovery," showing a woman (Mrs. Isaacstein) telling another woman she's moving soon after only six months residence. The accompanying text suggests this satirizes rapid tenant turnover or housing instability, possibly commenting on urban immigration patterns or housing conditions of the era. The surrounding text contains various brief satirical items, including references to political figures like Colonel Roosevelt and critiques of Democratic politics. One item mocks a Western University course on "getting married gracefully," while another jokes about Nikola Tesla's wireless technology promises. The overall page exemplifies Judge's style: sharp social and political commentary on contemporary issues through brief jokes, sketches, and observations about American life, politics, and technology circa early 1900s.
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REFORM OVER THE BORDER. we e/ (_d DIRECT VOTE in Canada on prohibition called out only twenty-five per cent. of the voters. The beverages over there are a little too good ———_—_ to warrant a waste of time over such miserable foolishness; and the Ca- PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK An tna Jude BUILDING. "Adian is too sturdy to go into any kind of hysterics. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. A GREAT SOCIAL DANGER. UNITED STATES AND CAMADA Tit ADVANCE. One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 3.80 ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks = = = 1.35 [ncluding the Cnatstuas June FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sorcign countries im the postal wn take up their time without matrimonial designs. That is right; but it is rather tough to make a young man propose in advance of proceedings as a guarantee of good faith. Dear, dear! Suppose the proposal should be accepted? jlo png Vom ey apex lt or pps vary 9 ny Seno agean — MISPLACED TIMIDITY. ‘ ete AR Sed ay aarp Fraps WE SUSPECT there were a great many gold Democrats in this state and in Nebraska who voted quietly against the idiocy which, never- theless, is going to steal the Democratic wigwam again. Why, however, = do they not assert themselves by organization and an open declaration for $2 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juve are protected by copy! sound money > both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and Li vigorously prosecuted. : THE INSINCERITY OF A FIGHTER. Saeeeee A CORRESPONDENT of the Rochester Herald thinks that Colonel MARCHAND is now known to a large extent as Marchout. Roosevelt never was sincere, and that he went to war for political purposes. Prejudice frequently warps good judgment, but it seldom twists it entirely out of shape. However, if we had an army of insincere soldiers of that kind it could whip the [ar-Circulation larger than any éther cartoon weekly in the world. see Witt THE VAN WYCKS go into history as the Curseican brothers? cee WE HALF BELIEVE ZZ | universe. that Hobson @ |’ could raise 5, |HER GREAT, wheat in the Z FAULT. desert of Sa- ZZ HE OLD Ze bara. Zi T MAID of se the family, ac- Soul - sat- cording to the ma sISEMI NG Reverend Anna REMARKS EY Shaw, is the per- . B. son always ap- Richard Croker pealed to when —"Thou canst any other not say I did it.” eee of the Per gases family is finan- “H eee cially afflicted. ker reflectively shortly after election, “it seems that the ballot-boxes were wide-open That is a com- pliment, of course; but does it allieve the pang of the thought that the dear old girl re- Oe ehetie mains single be- THE suc- cause she was CESS with too stingy to make herself look pretty? which Colonel Roosevelt put a head on Judge SW} van Wyck ar- FROM FIRE ues well for a TO FRY- eS AL. A SHOCKING DISCOVERY. ING- PAN. be ‘tol Mrs. Isaacstzin—"* Vot! going to move so soon? Vhy, you've only peen here six months.” = ny capitol. Mrs. ABRAHAMS—"* Yes ; but ve shust found oud yesterday dot der bath-tub von't hold vater.” THE CRU- eee ELTY of WAR-TALK in France is largely for the purpose of forgetting Dreyfus, this country in keeping the Philippines is talked about in some foreign but it may some day bring to France the glory of getting whipped. journals. There was much of that kind of talk when Germany settled e238 with France, but the French have so far recovered that they are anxious WESTERN UNIVERSITY is teaching the art of getting’ married © fight the old fight over again. And if the Philippines were to be re- gracefully, What they want in Chicago, however, is the art of get- turned to Spain would not that be barbarity? ting divorced in that way. : THE FACT that we are a nation of shop-keepers is again brought to the Spanish mind by the fact that there is an enormous surplus in the national treasury. It is sad to be so prosperous and vulgar. THE COMING FRIGHT. EVoLuTion, according to a woman doctor, will make the woman of the future a creature without hair or teeth. There will be some ben- efit in this, because she won't be able to bite and the Samsons of the future will have her admiration to such an extent that she won't steal their locks; SUGGESTED by the Chicago 7imes-Herald that perhaps Justice but, after all, if anybody wants to die he will be happier if he doesn’t post- doesn’t understand the French language. That isn’t the trouble. pone that event long enough to see the awful spectacle. The bandage over her eyes has slipped down to her mouth, eee TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH! QUR SPANISH FRIENDS are reminded of Grant’s words during the NICOLA TESLA promises miracles. He will telegraph without wires. Tilden-Hayes controversy. “I will have peace if I have to fight for and operate a ship at sea by magnetic waves from the shore, which it,” said Grant; and that is the voice of the American people to-day. will control the machinery and guide the ship quite as well as if there were Obata officers and crew aboard. There will therefore be no commerce that will HE FACT that the khalifa had fifty wives may have had something to _ give poor Jack employment; and as for fighting at sea there will be a total do with his present humiliation, for it must be remembered that he absence of it, with nobody to work the guns or do the killing and the never got used to that kind of trouble, having never lived in Chicago. dying. onecpyroneyerr orgzmumeers, $300 THE GIRLS of Bridgeport have organized against the young men who comicbooks.com