Judge, 1899-09-23 · page 3 of 17
Judge — September 23, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two satirical pieces from an early 20th-century American humor magazine. **Top cartoon** ("An Imprudent Selection"): Shows a woman selecting a man as a suitor, with dialogue about money and marriage prospects. The satire targets courtship customs where financial considerations drove match-making. **Bottom section** ("Heard Down the Dumb-Waiter Shaft"): Presents gossip overheard between servants, including stories about criminal behavior, prison, and social scandal. The humor relies on servants' working-class perspective on wealthy employers' misdeeds. **"How Uncle Si Got Fashionable"**: Depicts a man acquiring fashionable status, likely mocking social climbing and pretension. The magazine's consistent theme: satirizing class dynamics, courtship rituals, and social hypocrisy through exaggerated character types and eavesdropped dialogue typical of Judge's social commentary style.
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I! We | | VRaSB “wlll = eS wigdoal oh Hiillili eee Hl i AN IMPRUDENT SELECTION. Mk. Pristrose (4indly)—"* Whaten am de mattah wid you, Abel—bin losin’ money ?” Mr, PickLes (dejectedly)—"* Yarse—bettin’ on de Columbia toe win. stake-holdah.” She'll win sho’ enough, but de trouble is T got excited an’ selected Mose Skinflint as HEARD DOWN THE DUMB- WAITER SHAFT. SSYES, Captain Hooligan, i's me boy as ye was always a-chasin’ and tryin’ to put inter prison as has come home from the war with— what do you call it? —the middle of honor, and the president himself shakin’ him by the hand. And ye can put that in yer cigar and smoke it, Captain Hooligan "“— “ Fightin’ in Keyser’s saloon, my dear, and the bar-tender blacks his id he’s locked up, and the jedge fines him ten dollars, and "—— ‘ot a dollar in the house to bury him with, and she near the time. poor crectur. The alderman paid the undertaker and put the childer to school and "— “Quit Danny McBride, as likely and as dacent a bye as ever walked the fourth ward, to run off with that smooth dude feller with the high collar as was always hangin’ round the place. And they do say as he’s a crook as has done time in three “— HOW UNCLE st Gor Uncte St (rubsering at the labels on Cholly's bag) “* Gosh, thet must be the latest wrinkle !" “ Mrs, Richter, I'll thank ye not to hang yer Dutch aprons on my line again, Perhaps ye'll kindly return the jar of salt I lent yez last “De old guy met her at Larry's picnic—all pearl-powder, blue eyes and hair-dye, Well, she got next to his two thousand in de bank, and when he woke up one morning, a week after, she'd vamoosed wid de whole caboosh, watch, chain, and all, and his boy, who's in de central office says ""—— “Lord, Mrs. Mulcahy! to think of the girls in these days. Walked out of the paper-box factory the other morning and the next we heard she was in the chorus up at that theatre on Broadway, she drives in Central park every day with "— "And when he was brought up for sentence the judge gives him fifteen years, and Mrs. Rafferty she drops like a stone right down in the And now they say SAQUE sattTH, ‘si an (ez oe UNcie Si—* Oh, you can't lose your Uncle Si!” FASHIONABLE. comicbooks.com