Judge, 1902-08-23 · page 2 of 16
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This page contains satirical commentary and a cartoon titled "A Dissipated Idea." The main illustration depicts a homeless or destitute man and woman in a makeshift shelter, illustrating urban poverty. The caption presents a dialogue: Mrs. Handout tells the man he "looks like a dissipated man." When asked if he was married, he responds that he "was a man" before marriage—implying his wife caused his degradation and loss of identity. The satire targets both poverty and marriage, using the tramp character to mock domestic life's effects on men. The accompanying editorial snippets address contemporary concerns: Bryan's politics, Republican campaign rhetoric, and social commentary on human nature and kindness. The overall theme critiques both social conditions and gender relations in turn-of-the-century America.
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AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, 110 FIFTH AVENUR, NEW YORK. Terms to Subscribers. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, of 52 numbers - - One copy. st onthe of so eumbers = "Se One copy, for thirteen wets tas nclading the Cuistuas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year. Wasraxn Orrice—$28-829 Marguctte Building, Chicas. EUROPEAN SALES-AGENTS—/nternational mews company, Bream’s building, Chancery lane, E.G. London. Brentane's, avenue det Opera, Parts; Saarkac's newt eachaner, Bains, rmany. The contents of JUDGE are protected by copyright in both the Usited States and Great Britais. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecsted. CONTRIBUTORS wast inclose a sta ype with all macescripts, otherwise return of the latter when found asavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and ail cootributions sent fo the Art Department should have the sender"s fal: ame and adéress written plaialy on each and every separate sheich. The accompanying joke of descriptive letterpress should in every lastance be written spon its individeal pictare, and NOT sparate slip of paper. laclesure of stamps to the tell amount of postage is als aterial not accepted. USING, the bulldog burbles while he pants, The uncanned corn begilds the grinning mobs; Around the field the brinded bullock bobs, While on the rail the cow-bird chirps anil chants. The grim mosquito deep his sickle plants Into the skull that reddens while it throbs; And while the ocean musically sobs The boniface anent his losses rants. We hear the spry “‘electric’s ” whirling whizz Within the high roof-garden of the town, And watch lush houris sing and kick care-free, Only to dream, while sipping beer or fizz, Of that fair peach that does them all up brown— The peerless peach that dreams beside the sea. FEANNEL is the stuff ths Aue ing-suits are made of. dreams of feminine bath- FTER ALL is said and done, the consensus of opinion in superstitious circles will still remain that only the only Pierpont Morgan can reor- ganize and put the New York baseball club on a sound game-and-shekel- winning basis. THE small boy’s bliss is boiling on apace Its dancing sunshine perfectly we trace Right from the bottom of his heart unto The huckleberry fresco on his face. 'Tis in the swimming-hole he spends the day; He goes barefoot, and that’s what makes him gay; And when he smokes the corn-silk cigarette, Oh, isn’t he an eastern monarch, say? elects MONEY that was once known in the vernacular simply as dust is now known as coal-dust. WE ARE often inclined to fancy that even the milk of human kindness is not entirely free from germs. THE LITHE, bedimpled houris that ripple and drift serenely in the swirl ing killikinickscape are ‘the pipe-dreams that lure even while they elude us. R. DEVERY delights and electrifies the multitudes when he unleashes his bazoo and sets off the pyrotechnics of what might be called his aldermanic English. HE TWISTING of the tail of the Democratic lion should be productive of a fine sample of that elusive melady commonly and loosely known and accepted as Democratic harmony. eee A CONTEMPORARY says that Bryan’s hands are tied. From a Re- publican point of view it is better that his hands should be tied than that his tongue should be in the same condition, inasmuch as many of his wolian utterances are of a quality and spirit that make them fine material for the formulation of Republican campaign literature. WHAT perfect joy we know until we blink 2 The while our molars and incisors sink And sink and sink in sweet forgetfulness Into the watermelon’s juicy pink ! We note the seeds, each one of which next year Will be a melon when the amber beer, Froth-laden, flows to lift us from the earth— Ah, may we then, alas! be whole and here. A watermelon ’neath the whirling fan, A mug of beer and sweet Belinda Ann, Makes any wilderness the paradise To which fair fancy points its caravan. A DISSIPATED IDEA. Mrs. Hanpour—"' You look like a dissipated man.” Traur—"' lam, mum.” Mrs. Haxpout—"' Were you ever married?" ‘Trame—" Uv course, mum. Dat wuz w’ot dissipated de Idea I once had dat | wuz @ man.” comicbooks.com