Judge, 1899-04-15 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 15, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **"Another Facial Insult"** (top cartoon): Two grotesquely caricatured figures in top hats exchange insults on a city street. The exaggerated facial features—particularly prominent teeth and simian characteristics—suggest this employs racist caricature common to the era. The dialogue references "Filipinos" and "monkeys," indicating this satirizes early 20th-century American attitudes toward Filipino people during or after the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). The "facial insult" joke relies on dehumanizing ethnic caricature. The remaining content includes humorous vignettes and poetry ("Night-Blooming Cereus," "A Tall Story") typical of Judge's satirical format, though their specific references are unclear without additional historical context. The page demonstrates how period satirical magazines normalized racist imagery as humor.
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ANOTHER FACIAL INSULT. 1n’ so thim Filipinos yez saw wor sharrt av stature, wid hoigh chake-bones, wor theh? Phwot homely divils " vis, Toban, they wor th’ most moonkey-faced people Oi iver addressed—thot is. present company excipted, av corse." (Aid then they elinched.) NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, [1% in the shadows, 10, a spirit bloom Vague hints and thrills and fleeting shreds of Strayed from far Aidenn's rarest bower, joy, And all the night is filled with wand'ring Frail flotsam of the wondrous hour dreams, What time my soul, unnumbered lives ago, Koused by its perfume’s luring power. Slept in the still heart of a flower. JOMN Dane attr. PROOF OF GREATNESS. First editor—" There it is again! Why do you persist in calling Knoll a great man? It is true that he wrote a story. It was a very fair story and we paid him a very fair price for it, But what more?" Second editor —" After we sent him that cheque, what happened? Did he remind us of our obligations to him by an avalanche of stories and poems and literary miscellany, and more stories P First editor— bit of it. He has been as silent as the grave.” Second editor — That's why | call him a great man.” A TALL STORY. THe Gikaree—"' For a moment my heart was in my mouth, and "—— Tux w1rrPo—" Pardon me; before you continue may T ask how you managed to get it'all that way back again?” LIGHT AT LAST. ++ AND that, then,” said Mrs, Waggs, sighfully put- ting down ‘the paper from which she had been reading of the canned-meat controversy, “is what they mean by funeral meats MUST HAVE BEEN CARELESS. Father (pointing to the sky) —" That's the milky- way, Willie.” Willie (alter a moment's silence) — “After they NOT NEW TO HIM. got the cows way up there what'd they let them kick < Golag to the uake-dasee torblghe?? their milk over for, papa?” “You can bet your scalp I'm not. I've seen altogether too many snakes here lately,” comicbooks.com