Judge, 1899-05-06 · page 2 of 17
Judge — May 6, 1899 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis The main cartoon, titled "A Generous Offer," depicts a wealthy woman (Mrs. Straitlace) at a beach boardwalk offering a poor boy money—but with condescending strings attached. She claims giving him money in "such a public place" would be shameful, so she'll instead control his spending ("straddle me back till yer learns"). This satirizes upper-class hypocrisy: wealthy individuals performed charitable acts publicly for reputation while maintaining paternalistic control over the poor rather than offering genuine assistance or dignity. The setting emphasizes class division—the boardwalk as a space where social hierarchies were visibly performed. The surrounding text items mock various public figures and political issues of the era (likely early 1900s), using brief satirical quips typical of Judge's format.
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~~ Terms to Subscribers mal mews ndom; Keentano's, avenue def Ope One copy, one year, of 5 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 ‘One copy. for thirteen weeks = = acluding the Custstaas Juoce. TICE TO PUBLISH jnited States and Great Bri et T MUST be admitted that Mr. Gorman is one of those men who would rather be president than be right. ARTER HARRISON will now be in the list of possible presidential candidates for about ten minutes. ‘THE GHOST of Thomas Jefferson has been heard to semark that it wants to be saved from its friends. F THE SANDS of the oceans really did have gold in them it wouldn't be three weeks before a trust would buy up every ocean. THE ESTIMATES by Gomez of the strength of the Cuban army sug- gest that he is inadvertently discussing the population of Chicago. [7 1S ONE of the privileges of aged emperors to marry young girls; but, happily, the girls must have royal blood in them, and no American heiress need apply. ITHOUT AMERICAN AUTHORITY at Havana the Cubans would have quarreled one another to death by this time. Has Sen- ator Hoar noticed it? HERE 1S NOT a power so contemptible as to be unable to govern itself that won't fancy itself great enough to share in the plunder to be wrenched from China, It is a great moral idea. ORTY-EIGHT WOMEN have just been graduated from the woman's law-class of the New York university. It was an unusually bright class, several of the students being the s of editors. A GENEROU: Mrs, STRAITLACE— LirTLe poy—" Not a bit, ma‘am, I'm a champeen at it. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, CORNER PIPTH AVENUE AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. The contents of J in. Infringement oft company, Bream's building, Chancery lane, Paris: Saavback's news tichange, Matas, | fore FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS — To all ign countries in the postal union, $6.00 rotected by copyright +n er than any other ight will be promptly and | 1 cartoon weekly In the i world.” NO CRITERION. THE DEFEAT of John P. Altgeld 1s mentioned as a blow at silver: but if Carter Harrison were to say anything on the subject he would be so divided in opinion that he wouldn't say anything at all. TIME ENOUGH. GERMANS in mass-meeting at Chicago recently protested vigorously against an alliance between England and the United States. On the whole, perhaps it will be well to postpone the thing until the czar’s views of peace are generally adopted. THE WRONG TALENT. SENATOR MASON lectured to empty benches in Chicago the other night, and it was in Chicago that Senator Hill gave up a contemplated lecture-tour that was to have lasted some months. The trouble is, appar- ently, that senators are not good singers and they can't dance. WHAT MUST COME. OME DAY the middlemen of the business interests of this country will combine against the trusts, and in connection with the labor of the country they will make mischief, Labor has not too much to do, and these middlemen have no wish to crowd the market. And combinations against combinations are necessary and unavoidable, IMPOSSIBLE, MBS: LEASE jn some mediumistie way has seen Jay Gould over there, clothed in rags and condemned to cut coupons through eternity, It is impossible for rags and coupons to harmonize, and Mr. Gould undoubt- edly still knows good from counterfeit money. It 1s easier to believe that Mrs. Lease has lost spiritual eyesight or forgotten her spectacles. S OFFER, Little boy, ain't you ashamed to be swimming in such a public place?’ Come on in, an’ if yer don't know how ter swim I'll let yer straddle me back till yer learn.” comicbooks.com