Judge, 1898-12-17 · page 4 of 16
Judge — December 17, 1898 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three distinct sections: 1. **"Judge's Favorites"** - A portrait photograph of Augusta Close in "On and Off," with promotional text for a theatrical performance. 2. **"Up to Date"** - A cartoon depicting a mother scolding children playing indoors, with period-appropriate dialogue about proper behavior. 3. **"In Old Kentucky"** - A sketch showing a rural domestic scene with farmer Sheppardson and Mrs. Sheppardson exchanging Christmas greetings. The humor appears to be in the rustic dialect and the farmer's suggestion to get livestock as a gift. The page mixes theatrical promotion with gentle domestic satire typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine—poking fun at social conventions and regional American speech patterns rather than engaging in sharp political commentary.
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IT HAD ITS AD- VANTAGES. T WAS Christmas eve, and the forsaken man sat in his bachelor apartnients alone, Alone? No, not alone, for the spirit of his dead past sat at his elbow. “At last, John Hobson,” spoke the spirit of his dead past, “at last you know what it is to be utterly alone and forsaken upon a Christmas eve. One short year ago to-day you, in a moment of weakness, forged the fatal papers. You had a lovely wife—she has forsaken you; dear children, who have been taught to forget your face; your father and mother spurned you from their pres- ence, your friends effaced you from their JUDGE'S FAVORITES. AUGUSTA GLOSE IN ‘*ON AND OFF.” With so much talk of “stars,"" and “art,” pubis Rood 19 see a minor part memory — even your layed modestly. by prettiness and merit. é You, asthe waitress, serve things sweet, dog turned against and Jore than are merely good to eat ‘That feast of smiles and glances —we all share it. deserted you. Ab, John Hobson, have you not paid dearly for that one rash step?” The forsaken man slowly lifted his eyes until they rested upon the table be- - fore him. He pointed mutely to a new fur-lined overcoat that lay thereon, also to a five-hundred dollar stop-watch, a diamond ring, two new suits of clothes, six boxes of Henry Clays, and a case of Kentucky dew bottled in ‘eighty-six. “Oh, I don’t know,” he muttered cheerfully ; “it is true, oh spirit of the dead past, that I haven't a friend or a relative in the world, and it is also true that this is the first time in twenty years that I have been able to buy anything for myself at Christmas time. Not having any friends and relatives to be re- membered, 1 am at last able to remember yours truly, John Hobson. Ta-ta, oh spirit of the dead past; there is nothing like being utterly alone and for- saken in this world, especially at Christmas, and you can gamble upon it.” OW let the heroes of Santiago and other seaports devote themselves car- nestly, religiously, to the cultivation of a proper sort of grandchildren to tell their stories to. IN OLD KENTUCKY, FARMER SHEPPARDSON —‘ Chris'mus mos’ hyar, old woman !* Mrs, Sterrarpson —** That's so! Motier—" For goodness's sake, children! what are you doing?” “We're playing ‘ Heart of Maryland,’ and Mary is stopping the curfew.” ITWAS out in the darkness of eve on the stairs I stole a warm kiss, honey-sweet, unawares. I thought it was Gertie, the girl that I lore— "Twas the wife of a man on the floor just above. st Reckon yo'd bettah git some stockin’s the nex’ time yo’ go in town.” UP TO DATE. AT A BOARDING-HOUSE. Tt was he found me out, and a row was to pay, So I left the hot household the very next day ; While there was the scandal, the noise and the fuss, And all of it caused by a big blunder-buss. ICKBY, poor fellow ! forever is curst— ‘The best he can do is some other man’s worst. comicbooks.com