Judge, 1896-09-26 · page 5 of 16
Judge — September 26, 1896 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple brief satirical jokes typical of early 20th-century humor magazine format: **Main content includes:** - **"Its Meaning/Duxbury"**: A joke about a New England town with many unmarried women, playing on period stereotypes about provincial life. - **"Is This the Reason?"**: A pun on the Eden/Fall narrative—lovers' summer romance fails like Adam and Eve's paradise. - **"Little Tommy's Preference"**: A child's poem about preferring mixed vegetables (succotash) to individual ones—innocent domestic humor. - **"His Great Service"**: Dark humor about a vagrant stopping a train to save himself from being hit, framing self-preservation as altruism. - **"Not Cut Out for a Lawyer"**: An absurdist joke—a beggar's claim his father died before he was born is logically impossible, suggesting he'd make a poor lawyer. - **"Time to Stop"**: Grim satire on streetcar safety: a transit company president cynically notes fewer deaths mean fewer paying passengers. The page showcases Judge's mix of domestic comedy, wordplay, and darker social commentary about class and industrial-age concerns.
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ITS MEANING. eeTFpUXBURY has two thousand odd in- habitants,” read Mr. Perkasie, when Mrs, Perkasie inter- |! rupted him with the comment, “That must be one of those New England towns where there are so many old maids.” IS THIS THE REASON? De Garry— “Although it was a “1 DON'T THINK. summer engage- ment, our love was as sublime as that of our first parents in the garden of Eden.” Merritt—" So that is why it could not survive the fall?” LITTLE TOMMY’S PREFERENCE. THINK sweet corn is very nice When steaming on my dinner-plate ; And then the string-beans, richly stewed All over, make me feel first-rate, I like the string-beans very much ; T like the corn that grows so tall. But all mixed up in succotash T like them just the best of all. HIS GREAT SERVICE. Diusty Rodes--""1 did the railroad a great serv- ice to-day.” Weary Walker— Stopped a train at a dangerous place?” Dhusty Rodes—" No, 1 signaled to the engineer that there was a man on the track and he slowed up.” Weary Walker—" Who was the man?” Dhusty Rodes—*\ was.” IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FLATTERY—THE ARTIST AND THE MONKEY MODEL. NOT CUT OUT FOR A LAWYER. Mrs, WeLiMent (to youth/ul beggar)—"* Poor boy! You say you have no father or mother ?* YOUTHFUL BEGGAR (sobsing)—*"No'm. Me father died five years before I wuz born, an’ me mother couldn’t stan’ de shock an’ died jest a week after he did.” TIME TO STOP. Ss YOU men must really be careful and not run over people,” said the president of the surface-car line to his motormen. ‘They listened in respectful attention, and he continued, “Every person you kill is one less passenger to ride.” 6. comicbooks.com