Judge, 1899-08-05 · page 4 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several humorous sketches and jokes typical of Judge magazine's satirical style. The content includes: **"Lost Time"** - A domestic humor piece where a father catches his daughter kissing, leading to an escalating series of apologies and explanations that ironically makes things worse. **"Judge's Favorites"** and other titled sections feature brief comedic anecdotes about social situations - poor taste in fashion choices, flirtation mishaps, and linguistic confusion (singular vs. plural disease names). **"A Sunecure"** depicts working-class characters discussing political patronage jobs - satirizing how such positions were obtained through connections rather than merit. The illustrations use exaggerated line work characteristic of early 20th-century American humor magazines. Overall, this represents Judge's formula: domestic comedy, social embarrassment humor, and gentle political satire targeting corruption and pretension.
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LOST TIME, “What did you do when old Rootstraps caught you kissing his daughter?" Fexpy —" Why, first I started to argue, then T started to explain, then I started to apologize, and then I started to run, but, bah Jove, it was too late; I should have done that in the first place.” Photo, by Morrison, JunG FAVORITES. MARGARET ANGLIN You were the first, and fairest, of Reranes, hen“ Cyrano de Bergerac” first won us. In that great play the best part is the man’s, And Mansfeld had it—yet you grew upon us, And with some spell our wits did so enamour, ‘That all you've since done wears a kind of glamour, IN VERY POOR TASTE, LITTLE Margaret was out riding with her father one afternoon when they chanced to meet a don- key. As they drove by she looked up and said, “Papa, didn’t that horse's ears know enough to stop rowing when they'd got long enough ?” THEIR PLIGHT. It EACH miss that is made is as good asa mile It is certainly proper to say ‘Tirat the hopes of the Spaniards, to judge by their shots, Are an infinite distance away. SINGULAR AND PLURAL, Miss Informed—" Wasn't that a very singular disease Colonel Will- : NBE bert iams died of >" eer Her friend—"\ dov't know, OUT OF IT. What was it whoa rth GoTnos Yes, papa; the count de Rattlebrane, whom I introduced to you last night, belongs to the old : = tourbon aristocracy. but is now poor. Miss Informed —* They tell n Sa. Ok - Mx. Gorkox—"' I see—I suppose the whisky trust run him out of business. eh ?” me the doctor called it plural-pneu- monia.” STILL IN DOUBT. [ HAVE wooed hers she waits in bestowing her grace She can make up a quarrel I find ; She can make up her form, she can make up her face, But she never can make up her mind. THEIR CONSIDERATION. Interrogator —" Didn't you al- most freeze when the footpads rob- bed you, there in the snow, and then stripped you of most of your gar- ments?” F ; ai ' Recent victin— No. You see Sussy SouTn —"'T had a job once—got a good living and didn’t have to do a tap of work.” Wevstiinc Wrens —" Political 2” they kept me carefully covered with ; matrimonial.” their revolvers all the time.” comicbooks.com