Judge, 1900-04-14 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 14, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains multiple humorous sketches and brief comedic pieces rather than a single political cartoon. The top cartoon, "Expounding the Law," shows a judge sentencing someone to thirty days for being "a public nuisance," with the prisoner sarcastically thanking him for "consulting a nuisance." It satirizes judicial pronouncements that state the obvious. Below are several short joke exchanges ("Consistent," "Exceeding Realism," "A Serene Frame of Mind") poking fun at artists, pretension, and romantic miscommunication—typical genteel humor of the era. The bottom cartoons about "Mary Was Surprised" appear to be domestic comedy sketches, likely involving a surprise (camera) and household mishap with a tiger. The overall page represents general satirical humor rather than specific political commentary, targeting Victorian-era social conventions and domestic situations familiar to Judge's educated readership.
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CONSISTENT. ‘THOUGH this bargain-hunting maiden Still of youth has full and plenty It is rumored that her age is Just nineteen, reduced from twenty. EXCEEDING REALISM. Foster — Did you ever hear of that artist who painted a bunch of grapes so life-like that birds came and pecked at it?” Felton—" Yes; but I knew an artist who drew a picture of a tramp so natural that the editor he took it to kicked it out of the room !" A SERENE FRAME OF MIND. *6] OOK here, Hunker,” said Tenspot, “your fiancée complains that although you are engaged to her you kiss girls indiscriminately.” * She's quite right,” replied Hunker. “All girls look alike EXPOUNDING THE LAW. YANN LX LITERATIS Mauclis been told , | Is well’ and: “lareely READE ; {the term describ *Unele NED ~Maud wonders i The NOSE “o YES, MARY WAS SURPRISED, ‘Ss1TH—* Won't Mary be surprised when she finds I've got a camera ! I'll take her as she enters the door. Here she comes, and I've forgotten the cloth. This tiger rug ‘Il do.” COURT Gunerin, Beware - \ ‘AN ANCIENT PROBLEM SETTLED. ‘ou are a public nuisance, and I'll commit you for thirty days.” AT SLOCUM'S school - house, * You're agin the law in committing a nuisance.” Friday nights, ‘Through mud and fog and snow, ‘The Henry Clay debating lights Still hie themselves to blow ; And just as lofty are their flights As forty years ago, ‘The moderator’s tawny head, Though now a little bald, Still by the candle shows the red ‘That once the girls appalled. "Tis most beyond belief, ‘tis said, The rails that he has mauled. And old Cy Perkins has the floor ; Hot words flow from his tongue, Much as they did on nights of yore, When he was hale and young. But there's less power in his roar— They say he's lost a lung. “Once more I claim, before all men !"— A stillness reigns about— * Once more I say, it is the hen That hatched the chicken out That is its lawful mother.” Then There is an awful shout. A disk sails gleaming through the air ‘And brings up very short Against the rim of old Cy’s hair, ‘And makes a great report. And then a voice calls to the chair, “ Give your decision, * Sport.’ ” ‘The moderator turns his eyes Toward the shattered shells, “much regret,” he sad replies, “ That circumstance compels Me to decide that my friend Cy ‘s That chicken's mother.” (Y. It did! comicbooks.com