Judge, 1899-01-07 · page 3 of 18
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# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page This page contains social satire and humorous vignettes rather than partisan political commentary. **Top cartoon** ("His Ideal"): A ragged beggar with exaggerated features addresses a well-dressed woman, claiming he has "higher aspirations" than street begging—he wants to learn a trade "up town" near Fourteenth Street. The satire mocks vagrancy and deception: the beggar's stated ambitions are transparently false. **"A Song of the Christmas Stocking"**: Verses satirizing poverty and the gap between Christmas ideals and harsh reality—children lacking teeth, food, warmth. **Lower vignettes**: Various brief jokes about rural life, election-day politics, and urban poverty. One depicts someone stealing chickens; another references Thanksgiving. The overall tone criticizes social inequality and urban poverty while employing period stereotypes and dialect humor typical of 1880s-90s American magazines.
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HIS IDEAL, Lapy—"' Have you no higher aspirations than to stand down town begging on this street-corner ?” Becoar—"* W'y, uv course I has, lady. Jess as soon as I git de trade learnt a little better I'm a-goin’ ter move up town to de corner of Fourteenth street.” HO! FOR the sleigh and the reindeer too, Ho! for Santa Claus gray and jolly, Ho! for the roystering youngster crew, Ho! for the mistletoe-branch and holly. What though time in a playful mood Silvered my hair in a way that's shocking. Still T sing, as a young heart should, “Ho! for the joys of the Christmas stocking.” ANOTHER QUESTION. 66 AMMA.” MS Yes, dear.” “How does a deaf-and-dumb boy say his prayers when he's got the rheumatism ?” A SAD TRAVESTY. Cobwigger—" You seem to find the streets of New York very in- teresting.” Merritt —“ Yes, indeed. In looking them over one realizes that it is only on election-day that Tam- many makes a clean sweep.” SGHARKEY won on a foul” the night before Thanksgiv- ing. _ Next day we all followed his A SONG OF THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING. Red-striped trumpet and Noah's ark, Sawdust dolls with their wax cheeks rosy, Candy dogs, better to bite than bark, Dinner-sets fit for a play-house cozy. ‘Oh, but the years are a robber race ! “+ Your day is past,” says a voice with mocking. Still I sing with the best of grace, * Ho! for the joys of the Christmas stocking.” ~e Caramels, nuts, and a world of fruits, What are they worth when your teeth are failing ? ‘What are the sweets of the licorice roots To & man blasé, with his stomach ailing ? Yet I join in the youngsters’ glee When to the mantel they all go flocking. Spying each stocking well-filled, sing we ** Ho! for the joys of the Christmas stocking, ROY FARRELL Gi NO HARM DONE. Mrs, Me Lubserty (in the cem- etery)—" Dhere is a misspelled wor- rud on poor O'Hooley’s tombstone.” Me Lubberty —" Phwot differ- ence is ut? O’Hooley cudn’t rade.”* NOTHING ESCAPES HER. GHE'S such a desperate little fire That I believe she'd try ‘To get up a flirtation with A rain-beau in the sky. Oo FTEN we read about wheat be- ing cornered. Why is it that we never hear of corn being wheat- Abe (affrigAtedly) —"* Goodness ! yar comes de owner ob dis chicken I jes’ ered? role.” Ase (whistling coon march) —'* Yes, ‘squiah, 1 is out perty late, and it's because I'm practicin’ to win de fust prize at de nex’ cake-walk an’ don’t want no niggah to copy mah style, Good-ebenin’.” A TERPSICHOREAN COUP. ABE —*' I'll jes’ ram de chicken in mah hat an‘ take charnces on a bluff.” comicbooks.com