Judge — August 18, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several unrelated humorous items rather than a unified political cartoon. The top illustration, "Shakespeare in Possumville," satirizes a dramatic club's amateur production of *The Tempest*, with anthropomorphic possums performing the play—likely mocking pretentious local theater groups attempting Shakespeare. Below are three brief comic dialogues: "The Cruel Fair" (romantic humor), "Remedy for Heat" (domestic comedy about a woman cooling the kitchen), and "Horse-Talk" (a stallion boasting about winning prizes at a Jewish meeting—unclear what this references specifically). The bottom three-panel comic strip, "Her Scheme Worked," shows a domestic scenario where a woman's ruse successfully deceives her husband into thinking he overheard her voice while reading alone. Overall, this is light, domestic humor with no apparent political content—typical of Judge's miscellaneous entertainment section.