Judge, 1901-02-16 · page 2 of 16
Judge — February 16, 1901 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The large central cartoon depicts a woman in elaborate dress being physically restrained or grappled with by a dark figure. Based on the visible text sections ("A Stubborn Duke," "Fighting Death," "Asphalt vs. Good Intentions"), this appears to be satirizing European nobility and social issues rather than U.S. politics specifically. The "Victoria" poem at top right references Queen Victoria and British monarchy. The scattered text items below the cartoon mock various contemporary figures and situations—including references to Jefferson, Lord Raglan, and John L. Sullivan—suggesting commentary on political independence, military affairs, and celebrity. Without clearer caption text visible in the image, the specific satirical target of the main illustration remains somewhat unclear, though it appears to critique aristocratic pretension or romantic/dynastic conflicts among European nobility.
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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, Terms to Subscribers. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IH ADVAMCR. ‘One copy, one year. or 53 numbers - $5.00, ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 ‘One copy, for thirteen weeks ares} laciuding the Cusistwas Juoos. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS foreign countries in the postal uni ay nyce building, Chicago, mews company, Bream's building, Cham avenue del Opéra, Paris; Saarbach's mews exchange, To all «$6.00 many, CORNER FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. 27 Circulation larger than any other cartoon weekly Ia the world. F9~ NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS —The contents of Juncs are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. IF AGUINALDO is still alive will he kindly rise and so specify? JF “ERSON was ambidextrous and wrote equally well with either hand. Bryan can't do that, but he can take both sides of a question with apparent ease. A ROUNDABOUT RUMOR reaches us, via the Washington Star, that Dr. Parkhurst of New York has decided to abandon politics and take up religion, : of the British in South Africa THERE ARE some things worse than war. Lord Ragl. war-office declares that the present condition of affai is one of them. [PULIE DEVEREUX BLAK ought to be taught to sew. Very well; and to make them the more valuable let them be given their wives’ wardrobes to take care of. thinks men OHN L. SULLIVA swap his belt for Edward's crown— no, not ina million It will be quite as long as that before the bargain is consummated, we think. will not oppose his wife's suit for adivorce, TI agreement to disagree which leads to a prompt and profitable peace; but it is a little hard on the ONE WOULD think that the new king of * England would retain the name of Albert as well as Edward, that having been the name of the prince consort; but Edward will do well’ enough so long as the king behaves himself. to be united against Carrie Nation and the other wo- men who propose to de- stroy their property, and the first thing to that end is the closing of their places until tne law allows them to sell intoxicating bever- Meanwhile, how- ever, it the people of the state do not hound the women out of it they will show more patience than can be reasonably expect- ed of them. EQUALIZING MATTERS. Ferdy says he talks all night in his sleep.” Oh, well, he sleeps all day in his talk; so what's the difference?” VICTORIA. TRE drum-beat did not all her realm define, Nor crown and sceptre mark her state serene— The noblest sovereign England yet hath seen, Invested with prerogative divine, Larger than law, in heart and will benign. Two kindred lands that ocean rolls between Sang with " America,” “God save the Queen !" And now in grief to mourn her loss combine. Queenly as woman, womanly as queen, A wife and mother of the noblest mould Of Roman matron in the days of old, Her reign has wise as long and loving been. Imperious flower of legendary race, Victoria's name is shrined in deathless grace. Wann TYRRELL, A STUBBORN DUKE. » UKE HENRY is out with Queen Wilhelmina. He wants to be called the prince-consort, and the Dutch object that that would give him rank above the queen-mother. He also wants the Dutch to give him eighty thousand dollars a year for life, but the parliament won't do it. So he leaves Holland and declares the engagement off; and the question is whether he is really as independent as he assumes to" be or whether he wants to be coaxed. FIGHTING DEATH. AN EXCHANGE speaks admiringly of the queen's “noble fight against death.” One would think it was unusual from the number of times the term is used; but does anybody die without a struggle? Is there a body who doesn’t make the same ‘ht to the extent of his ability? No- body but the suicide surrenders willingly to death or goes forward to meet it. Praise for a good fight is little enough to give the dead; but nature dictates these things rather than pugnacity and determination to prevent the inevitable. ASPHALT VS. GOOD INTENTIONS. H—: O8 HADES, as some people who deny its existence prefer to call it, is traditionally reported to be paved with good intentions. Judging from the warlike muddle in Venezuela resulting from President Castro's at- tempt to illegally dispossess an Ameri- can asphalt company who had leased and paid for a large tract of the in- fernal quarry, we suppose that Satan is making modern improvements in his hot place and substituting for the old, worn-out good intentions late asphalt pavements. are expensive, but the asph longer. A LITTLE GUIDE-POST. JHE REVEREND HENRY VAN DYKE, who is as felicitous in an after-dinner speech as he is in the pul- pit or at the literary d remarked over the “kof- fie and cigars at the re- cent Holland society func- tion, “One noteworthy feature of American social life in the nineteenth cent- ury has been the growth of ancestral socictic ‘They have become so nu- merous and various that about the only one now lacking is a society of the friendly sons of paradise, composed of direct de- scendants of Adam and Eve in the line, with the crest of an ap- ple-tree rampant, and a motto, Forgive your an- cestors if you cannot for- get them,"” male comicbooks.com