Judge, 1899-12-02 · page 3 of 16
Judge — December 2, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical pieces rather than a single coherent political cartoon. The top illustration titled "EXPLANATORY" depicts what appears to be a confrontation involving caricatured figures with exaggerated features—likely ethnic stereotypes common to early satirical magazines—discussing animal behavior in crude dialect. Below are several short humorous anecdotes and verse pieces including "HER SECOND VENTURE," "HE WAS SUITED," and "GRATITUDE AND LOVE," which appear to be social commentary on relationships and character rather than political satire. The illustrations throughout use heavy cross-hatching in typical late 19th/early 20th-century style. Without specific historical context about when this issue was published or knowledge of Judge magazine's immediate editorial focus, I cannot identify specific political figures or events referenced with certainty.
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AT IN” EXPLANATORY. (200 a, m.)—"* Deedy, ‘squire, U's glad yo's come out, fo" I's in a predicament—I is fo" shuah. into dis yar chicken-coop 0° youahs, an’ ev'y time I puts mah hand in to feel for de Mah dog jes’ run a coon, of a possum, Darn if 1 know jes’ wot to do, ‘squire, an’ dat’s a fact.” al dis yar ole tu'key 0” youahs do bite me savage. THERE was an old lady named Wemyss, Who was given to horrible dremyss ; And one summer night she yelled out in affright Aad woke the whole house with her seremyss. HER SECOND VENTURE, Johnson—*M\ your family?” Thompson (who married the widow Jones) — “ Nope — family 1 married int HE WAS SUITED, By the newly-made widower, SA¥S she—"* Write it plain on my tombstone, * T have gone to eternal peace." Well, the Lord knows she wasn’t the only one Who wanted the strife to cease. * Mammy, mammy, come quick! lil’ "Rasmus done swallered mos all de animals in his Noah's ark an’ Shem, Ham and Japheth.”* GRATITUDE AND LOVE, DSHIPS!" said Dom Manoel de Deus. “I have befriended many, and been sed with many friends. When T was a student there was one who often gave me a dinner to fill an empty stomach. Another paid my lodging surreptitiously and saved me from being turned on to the street. In maturer days a critic of authority among others praised my satires and put me well above Tolentino. To a fourth Iam indebted for sav- ing my life in the jungle, and to all of these true friends have I not been ungrateful. But there was another man. I met him in the caravansérai. He never gave me the value of a real, and the chief thing that T remember about him was his smile. Yet some- times I seem to remember only the man who smiled. Ingratitude is a beast, yet if to be fed and lodged. given fame and delivered from death in the jungle weighs ess than one man’s smile, I did not make scales and bal- Leson-squeezer—"‘ There’s that sour Miss Lemon un- wy, der the mistletoe. I sha'n't kiss her; but, being a professional * You bet it pays to look tough these days. ances. katwmine Grosjean, squeezer, I'll give her a good hug.” comicbooks.com