Judge, 1905-08-26 · page 3 of 16
Judge — August 26, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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**Top Illustration:** "At Madame Beaucaire's Beauty Lecture" depicts an elegantly dressed woman lecturing to an attentive audience of fashionable ladies about beauty and appearance—a satirical commentary on the commercialization of women's beauty standards and the lecture-circuit culture of the era. **Left Column:** "Portsmouth Bulletins" mockingly tracks peace negotiations between Witte and Komura (Russian and Japanese diplomats ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905). Each day's "prediction" contradicts the previous, satirizing the endless, futile back-and-forth of peace talks and the unreliability of diplomatic pronouncements. **Right Column:** Humorous short items about contemporary social absurdities, typical of Judge's satirical content. **Center Image:** An unclear nighttime scene; context insufficient for confident interpretation.
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PORTSMOUTH BULLETINS, N ORDER to supply the reader with a convenient memorandum of the progress‘of the peace confer- ence between Witte and Komura, at Portsmouth, the following bulletins in the press, as they appeared from day to day, are herewith appended. The bulletins cover the first two weeks of the confab. Wednesday. FIRST DAY—PEACE ASSURED. Thursday. PEACE NOW IMPOSSIBLE. Friday. WITTE WILL ACCEPT. Saturday. CONFERENCE FRUITLESS. Monday. PEACE POSITIVELY IN SIGHT. Tuesday. CRUEL WAR TO THE FINISH. Saturday. CZAR CONCEDES EVERYTHING. * Sunday. CZAR CONCEDES NOTHING. Monday. PEACE DEFINITELY ASSURED. Tuesday. WITTE REFUSES TO BUDGE. + Wednesday. WITTE GIVES IN. JAPS GIVE UP. WAR TO GO ON. INCONSISTENT. Sax—""There goes Miss Shapely. I hear she has severed her connection with the opera company.” Fax—** What was the trouble?" ‘Sax—' They wanted her to appear in tights."” ‘THE REJOICEFUL VIANDS, LITTLE grins of Grab-oot, Little flakes of Vite, Cause the cents and dollars To disappear complete. Justtotezo cakelets, And Dreaded Biscuit, too, Make the whole existence One glorious, grand chew-chew. sos ELLUOT. GIVE HIM TEN. Teacher (to smallest boy in class)—** What well-known animal supplies you with food and cloth- ing?” Smatlest boy (after some thought)—* My father."* NOTHING NEW. SOME one will dramatize the cook-book next.” “Eat at my house some day and I'll show you several tragedies that have been adapted from that classic.” POOR POLICY. ry BANGS has taken out a straight- life insurance policy.” “He is a very foolish man to insure a life he doesn’t lead.” ST. CAR SKP’D JNO. A PERSON whose first name was Jno. Said he must a street-car get upno. But it slid past his st. With a motion so fit. That before he half saw it ‘twas gno comicbooks.com