Judge, 1899-01-07 · page 4 of 18
Judge — January 7, 1899 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains multiple unrelated humorous sketches and short comedic pieces typical of Judge magazine's format. Key content includes: **"Judge's Favorites"** - A poem about a gingham-dressed girl, likely sentimental verse. **"Affliction Either Way"** - A dialogue joke about housing complaints. **"The Muff and the Cat"** - Animal illustrations demonstrating "hereditary instinct," showing cats chasing prey. **Various short humor pieces** with titles like "How He Got It," "A Just Grievance," and "Gored to Death"—all brief satirical dialogues on everyday situations. **"Shine 10 Cents"** - An illustration showing a shoeshine scene, possibly social commentary on class. The page lacks coherent political satire; instead, it offers miscellaneous domestic humor, animal jokes, and social observations typical of early 20th-century American comedic magazines aimed at middle-class readers.
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Photo. by Eddowes bros. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. VILLA KNOX. Castle Square Opera Co. Dear girl, in gingham gown and bonnet, You certainly deserve a sonn Yet that would be superfluous “Tia best that you the warbler be, Allothers silent. As for me, Let'me but listen, while you do the singing. IN A HARD PLACE. S+GOME women, I judge, will be apt to make a break when they get to heaven” “ Why so?” “Oh, when they're complimented on their new surroundings, for instance, I'll warrant nine out of ten will say, ‘They're very comfortable, but I've had better.” " HYPERCRITICAL. PERTAINING to cultare in Boston The latest report is the crowning, ‘That even their beans must possess correct taste ACCEPTED BEFORE HE DIED. HAT!" cried the spirit in dismay, You'd put me out of heaven, When I've enjoyed celestial bliss Since eighteen thirty-seven 2" even so,” Saint Peter said ; Your poem 's just been printed. Had we known you did aught so bad, ‘Then downward you'd have sprinted.” AFFLICTION EITHER WAY. Visitor—" What a horribly ag- gressive house they have stuck up before your door, my dear! Bright red with green roof. Good heaven! 1 wouldn't live in it for a fortune.” Sufferer—* Wouldn't you? Vd much rather live in it than alongside ‘THE MUFF AND THE CAT; OR, HERED- ITARY INSTINCT. HOW HE GOT IT. THOUGH Pedestrian Jones hasa bieyele face, It isn't the article real ; For he was run down by a fellow last night Who was out for a ride on a wheel. HOW IT HAPPENS. Little nephew —” Uncle, what makes cynics of people ?” Old Uncle Grout —“ When a man is a cynic it is because he has had experience ; when a woman is a cynic it is because she hasn‘t.” IT’S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD. Wooben-LecceD Max —'* How much, eh?” Boorstack—"* Ten cents is the usual price—five cents " Pluto —* What ails Mars lately?” “KS en to you, sir. : » aoe OCCASIONALLY love fies out of the Woubnn-unccr> wax —‘'Go ahead, then, (Aside) ___, Proserpina —“He's got the blues. He window when poverty doesn’t enter the By jinks! this is the only instance in my life that don't Claims that Zolus, the god of wind, has usurp- house at all. regret that Brooklyn trolley accident.” ed his place in the affections of the Spanish.” And go through a full course of browning. DRRTHA WASHBCRN STINE A JUST GRIEVANCE, GOKED TO DEATH. First cow-PuNcHER—" So Tough Tomkins wuz gored to death, eh? By a bull, I suppose 2" Srconp cow-puncnek—"* No; by a woman—he married a dressmaker.” comicbooks.com