Judge, 1899-08-05 · page 3 of 16
Judge — August 5, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains multiple satirical sketches and humorous dialogue pieces typical of Judge magazine's format. **"The Conspirators"** (top): Shows a man in formal dress and a woman in an elegant gown, with dialogue about going to Europe. The satirical point appears to concern financial concerns during travel—the woman wants assurance her husband will send money while abroad. **Other sketches** address contemporary social observations: "Silent" concerns unmarried people and Friday superstitions; "Shouldn't Be" jokes about marriage on Friday; "Keeping the Melon Cool" depicts a servant figure; and pieces titled "Inappropropriate," "Natural," "Base Ingratitude," and "No More Complications Wanted" offer brief comedic social commentary. **"A Timely Suggestion"** references sisters returning from Europe, satirizing concerns about propriety and family reputation. The page demonstrates Judge's style of mixing visual cartoons with joke-driven dialogue reflecting upper-class American social anxieties of the period.
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THE CONSPIRATO ‘Tuy: nocror—" Shall L insist upon your going to Europe? Mxs, Hie SILENT. THE speech he'd written some classmate stole, Me knew it not till the fatal day, And much it vexed his sen- sitive soul ‘To find he hadn't a word to say SHOULDN'T BE. Freddy—" \s Friday the unluckiest day in the week ?” Cobwigger—"1 don't see how it can be. No body thinks of getting married on that day.” E INGRATITUDE, publics are ungrateful.” Dey is?" Dey am! "Tain't no use tellin’ folks you fought Dewey at Manila no more, ‘cause dey've lost all financial interest in it so quick.” NO MORE COMPLICATIONS WANTED. $s BUT don't you think.” inquired the Filipino ai time we appealed to the powers again?” _ “ Not hardly,” replied his aspiring chief. “Our time at present seems to be wholly occupied in dealing with the power we appealed to last year.” that it is A TIMELY SUGGESTION, Beth (whose elder sisters have just returned from abroad, at her devotions)—" Please let papa and mamma live always — and, God, if you want to be happy you'll never have Minerva and Martha die, for they'd make you awfully ashamed in heaven, comparing things there with KEEPING THE MELON COOL, what they saw in Europe.” ‘es, doctor ; but please don't send in your bill till after we come back.” INAPPROPRIATE, T WAS. Edith’s first visit to the country, and while there she saw one of her grandfather's horses shod.“ My!" she exclaimed on reac the house, “grandpa had a breast-pin put on every one of his horse’s feet.” NATURAL, HE. black sheep of the family Can generally pull O’er other people's optics A good supply of wool. eS IN THE MARKET. “Have you seen that new noiseless typewriter Johnson has got ?” Sarrii—"* No. What make is it?” Brown —* Well, her name is Jones, and she's deaf and dumb.” comicbooks.com