Judge, 1899-05-20 · page 3 of 16
Judge — May 20, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon - "Work Killed Them":** This depicts a bar scene where a disheveled laborer confronts a well-dressed bartender. The caption contrasts their explanations for death: the bartender claims "hard work never killed nobody," while the laborer counters that he lost "four wives dat way." The satire targets working-class exploitation and the wealthy's dismissive attitudes toward labor's physical toll. **Lower Content - "A Bit of McGarvey Family History":** This appears to be serialized Irish-immigrant fiction, featuring characters named Patsy Duggan and Mickey Mangan. The narrative uses heavy Irish dialect ("O'm," "yez") and depicts poor immigrant family life, likely satirizing or caricaturing Irish-American experiences of the era through exaggerated stereotypes common to period publications.
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We SVEN > OF THe ea. SEASON, nooo FU st ay & Me Iva ca WILL TALK Twenty Rounps — (a woth ° PUPZz ASTER wwe THEY cA EACW OTHER, LIAR THIEVES LOOSTERS. nue’ A BE. Atsocat ——— i WORK KILLED THEM. BAr-TENDER —"' Why don’t you get out and hustle? Hard work never killed nobody.” Most Lazipones—'* Dat's an infernal lie, su! I'se lost four wives dat way.” A BIT OF McGARVEY FAMILY HISTORY. licked, and loies on the ground just braithin’ whin the girl comes to him. “Oh, darlin’,” says she, fallin’ besoide him, “ are yez hurt ?” PIDIGRAY 's the thing! Me daughter is now ingaged in the frantic search for ancistors. py and Oi'm till- in’ hev Oi'm Mm the only one in the family, but she’s not belavin’ it at all, at all. Oi'll_ be tillin’ yezhow it comes. Many the long year since in the imerald oisle —bliss it! two lads courted the same girl. She wor a swate lass, wid oyes loike me own and a nose thot comes to the ilegant point not far from thim same oyes. The names .av the fellies wor Patsy Duggan and Mickey Mangan, and the ro- valry av thim wor ter-r-rible. A foight comes av it at last— a foight thot spills blood up- on the shamrocks under the fait av thim, and droives the roses from the girl’s chaiks whin she hears av it, and gits the angel av dith thot ixcoited he hops up and down floppin’ the wings av him first near Patsy, thin near Mickey. Will, thin, to make a ON THE GOLF-LINKS. " Did,” says Patsy fably. “Spake to me!” says she. “Oi can't,” says Patsy; “Oi can't say one word ‘tis thot waik Oi am; and Oi'm licked and disgraced foriver,” says he, “and Oi've lost yez, and—and "— * Yez haven't,” says she ; “Oi'm yours!” “Whoy,” says Patsy, dazed loike, “Oi—Oi'm not carin’,” says tis yez Oi'll be havin’, and we'll go to Ameriky and be happy and fray,” says she. “Oh moy, oh moy !” says Patsy ; Oi'm ashamed av the tis not to yez, me darlin’, be givin’ it.” “ Thin,” says she, roisin’ up, “ yez can take moy name, Patsy ; ‘tis one thot wor niver licked !” ‘Thot name wor McGar- vey, me b’y, and ‘tis me mother's picture hangs above the dure in the front room there. What's thot — Dug- gan? By the powers, if Oi didn’t know yez wor innocent as skim-milk Oi'd be spank- in’ yez for askin’ me thot! Moy name's McGarvey, sor, Mrs Tea—"* Are you never touched by poetry?" and Oi'm the first ay me short story short, Patsy wor Mn. Datven—" Well, not so often as by poets." race. DAVID 4, TALMADGBY comicbooks.com