Judge, 1900-06-02 · page 4 of 16
Judge — June 2, 1900 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several satirical pieces about contemporary social issues: **"Judge's Favorites"** features Edna Proctor, apparently a notable figure, with a poem about women's education and suffrage—mocking women's intellectual ambitions. **"More Easy to Write"** jokes about Willie struggling with grammar (plural possessives), suggesting educational deficiencies. **"An Exact Definition"** presents humorous word definitions—light satirical fare. The larger cartoons appear to contrast **Harlem's past and present**: one depicts the neighborhood forty years earlier as rural farmland with humble folk; the other shows modern-day Harlem as a densely packed urban tenement district. This reflects early-20th-century anxiety about rapid urbanization and demographic change in New York City. The "Loss and Gain" section satirizes materialism and courtship rituals of the era.
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It is not so many years ago that a girl was considered of a marridgeable age when she became sixteen or seventeen years old. If she married ther or shortly afterward, it was not.such an unusual thing. Twenty-five years ago girls gen- erally married at nineteen, while to-day the average is closer to twenty-three.— Photo, by Sarony. Ladies Home Jorirnal. Jub FAVORITES. At this rate abovt a hundred years from now people will be able to put off With PROCIOK OTs. marrying till they are old enough to die, and it won't make any difference whether “ Women and Wine,” they call the play. the new life is a mistake or not. Taw it not. But, any way, Whichever part was played by you, LOSS AND GAIN. Intoxication must ensue — Aad, if {rom wine, an aching head ; = cus-pinne- HLOE, my love, If woman, aching heart instead. Wears'a new diamond pin; She calls me a dove, MORE EASY TO WRITE. ( Chloe, my love. WILLIE was sent to the board y By Venus above to write the plural possessive My purse is quite thin ! of sheep. After many attempts ; 4 Yet Chloe, my love, he asked discouragingly,* Wouldn't , Wears a new diamond pin. lambs do just as well ? AN EXACT DEFINITION, Weary Waggles —* What's a holler square, Pete?” Pathfinding Pete—"Yer know what a square meal is, don't yer? Well, take out the meal and there's MAURICE BROWN, THAT WAS DIFFERENT. Freddie —"1 can’t eat straw- berries without cream.” Mrs, Cotwigger —“ Why, the other day when you got in the pantry you ate two boxes with the hulls yer holler square.” TIME CHANGES ALL THINGS. HARLEM FORTY YEARS AGO. Mike O'Day complained at this time that there was “ divil a chance fer a mon to elevate himself.” MARLEM AT THE PRESENT DAY. Dear old Mike lived long enough, however, to find ample opportunities to elevate himself. comicbooks.com