Judge, 1899-04-29 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 29, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"No Use for Worms"** (top): A domestic scene mocking rural/farming life. Farmer Wiregrass boasts he won't go fishing, dismissing it as futile—humor derives from the incongruity between rural stereotypes and pretentious reasoning. 2. **"Of Generous Proportions" / "His Absence Explained"** (middle): A joke about a wife asking her husband the "size of the earth." His expert evasion of a straightforward question, and her later explanation that he's "cleaning house," satirizes masculine avoidance of domestic duties and marital dynamics. 3. **"Family Duties"** (bottom): Two fashionable women discuss how Mrs. Flybottom "kills time"—dividing it between a bicycle and husband, "blowing them up." This mocks both the bicycle craze of the 1890s-1900s and women's leisure activities.
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NO USE FOR WORMS, Fanster Wirecrass (four-thirty a, m.)—"* Git up, John Hennery! git right up. It's the early bird that catches the worm, ye know.” J. Henry Winearass (just Aome from college)—"* Oh, that's all right, guv'nor; but I'm not going fishing to-day, thank you,” Just call me again at nine, please.” OF GENEROUS PROPORTIONS. HIS ABSENCE EXPLAINED. . *MY DEAR,” said Mrs, Tenspot to her husband, “ what is the size of Koundsman—" Why don't you send out an alarm for that man when the earth his wife says he’s missing ?” “Oh, there’s enough of it to go round,” replied Mr. ‘Tenspot, who is Sergeant—" He'll be back home in a day or so. She told me she was expert at concealing his ignorance. cleaning house.” FAMILY DUTIES. Maset.—"* Wonder what Mrs. Flyabout does to kill time?” Sur—" Why, she has a bicycle and a husband, so she divides her time between them—blowing them up.” comicbooks.com