Judge, 1898-12-03 · page 3 of 16
Judge — December 3, 1898 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains domestic humor sketches satirizing working-class family life and parenting struggles. The top panel, "As She Understood It," depicts a financial disagreement between spouses about debt. The middle sections—"The Boston of It" and "An Inquiry"—feature comedic dialogue about ice quality and children's behavior, mocking both regional pretension and parenting advice. The lower panels titled "The Pesky Youth and the Inventive Chink" appear to depict a conflict involving an Asian character (using period-appropriate but now offensive terminology) and a troublesome boy, involving schemes with water and laundry. The humor relies on stereotypes common to early 20th-century American magazines: working-class financial anxiety, regional snobbery, and racial caricature. The "Wah Shee Laundry" reference suggests immigrant labor stereotypes prevalent in that era.
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igs ns A a w AS SHE UNDERSTOOD IT. Y, 4 Mr. HAnix (after reading letter from son at college)—" John says he's a quarter-back."’ Mrs, Harix—** Wa-al, send him th’ quarter an’ let him pay up. We can’t afford ter hev him in debt fer th’ sake uv a small sum like thet.” THE BOSTON OF IT. AN INQUIRY. Little New York boy— Don't go there, Waldo. The ice is too thin.” Mrs. Murphy —" The swate little babies !° Little Boston boy—" Don't you know that the expression too thin is Mrs, Dugan —" They do be thot, an’ ut’s twins they are.” awfully vulgar? You should say the ice is not sufficiently materialized.” Mrs, Murphy—Yez don't say! An’ are the both av thim yours?” 1, Wan Suez —" Bad boy allee same bother velly muchee—Chineeman unhook him spring wash-bench.” 4. Hooplah, kid! allee same come again and bother Wah Shee heapee soon some more. THE PESKY YOUTH AND THE INVENTIVE CHINK. 8. ** Gleat invention—me settee trap again.” comicbooks.com