Judge, 1899-09-09 · page 3 of 16
Judge — September 9, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several separate humorous sketches and poems rather than unified political satire. The content includes: **"A Conjecture"** (top): A joke about weather prediction featuring caricatured figures with exaggerated features, likely reflecting period racial stereotyping common to the era. **"A Vexed Question"** and other literary pieces: Short humorous poems and dialogue snippets addressing domestic and social situations of the period. **"At the Embroidery Class"** and **"Staying Her Off"**: Comic sketches depicting everyday middle-class scenes—women's activities and marital/romantic situations—rendered as gentle domestic humor. The illustrations use heavy cross-hatching and pen work typical of late 19th/early 20th-century magazine cartooning. The overall tone is light social comedy rather than sharp political critique, focusing on universal human foibles and miscommunications rather than specific current events.
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Mxs. Jounson—"* Dey say a cyclone looks like a big, black, funnel-shaped cloud.” Mr. Jouxsox—"' Vais; Treckon it must look a good deal like you, having a tantrum and standing on your haid.”* A VEXED QUESTION. E was a wise old botanist, and he was known to tame, innzeus Cincinnatus Hocus-Pocus was his name. His knowledge was stupendous, his wisdom was profound, His learning in botanic fields was something to astound. But there was one deep question this wiseacre could not solve, And round its puzzling mysteries his mind would e’er revolve. He'd sit within his study and he'd ponder by the hour, Muttering, ‘*/s a cabbage rose what we may cauliflower?” CAROLYN WALES. AT THE EMBROIDERY CLASS. Miss.de Peyster —* What colors shall I use for this dog ?" * Madame—* Exercise your own taste in the matter.” Miss de Peyster (usingly) —“ Well, I think it would be sweet to have a blue dog with a yellow tail.” GLEE-CLUB GREEK. Farmer Haynick—"* Can thet son of your'n talk Greek since he got back from Harvard college ”” FARMER Cornkouu—"* No, b'gosh! but you jest orter hear him sing it.”” THRICE, 1 HTEY loved, and their vows were plighted ; But each had a proud, proud heart, And a trifling, foolish quarrel Drifted them far apart. n, ‘They met, but they met as strangers, ‘Though she was loyal and true ; For he, in a reckless moment, Had married a handsome shrew. m His wife in ber grave was lying ; Once more his love he told. Alack ! out of poverty’s stresses She had wedded a man for gold. STAVING HER OFF, Rel LEAN epele Mas. Brown (reading)—"* Just listen to this, John.” Miss Syiphine—" Oh, Mr. Mr. Browx—"* Now hold on, Mrs. Brown !' “Just cast your eye down that column before you begin reading and see if Whitewood—Blackwood—Red- it's a patent-medicine advertisement wood—dear me! I: hope you'll Mrs. Brow: John ; it isn’t.’ Mk. Beowx—" Then oblige me by not reading it, Mrs, Brown. ‘The patent-medicine stories are the only things €XCuse me. I always do forget worth reading in the papers nowadays.” the color of your name,’ comicbooks.com