Judge, 1899-06-03 · page 5 of 16
Judge — June 3, 1899 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains several satirical cartoons on turn-of-the-century social topics: **"Careful of His Appearance"** jokes about a husband's vanity—he fears yellow fever not for health reasons, but because the yellowing of his skin would be unflattering. **"Holland Damsel"** celebrates the World's Fair (likely the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition), making light comparisons between Amsterdam and New York while making flirtatious observations about Dutch women. **"She Knew the Feeling"** satirizes romantic poetry's clichés; a Boston man quotes flowery verse about "vague unrest" to a St. Paul woman, who relates it to seasickness—mundane reality deflating literary pretension. **"The Only Explanation"** suggests a man's beautiful typewriter disappeared after marriage, implying the wife is responsible—a jab at marriage as a transformative (negative) force. The humor relies on period anxieties about appearance, courtship, poetry, and matrimony.
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THE mEAR—" That is evidently one of the latest spring styles, but I don’t think I'd look well in CAREFUL OF HIS APPEARANCE. . wry does your husband seem to have such a dread of yellow fever?” “Well, you know John never looked well in yellow.” STANWWS AMSTERDAM JUDGE'S WORLD'S FAIR, No. xx. HOLLAND DAMSE: Old Amsterdam is quaintly Dutch, ‘New Amsterdam 's our New Vork city; ‘And yet the difference isn't much, For there, as here, the girls are pretty. To Holland's culture, ages back, f¢ owe the tulips in our pardens: In Holland now two lips we smack, ‘And needn't beg a thousand pardons, IN UNIFORM. ts] HAVE just been reading an article entitled ‘The blue and the g KNEW THE FEELING “Oh, I don’t care for war-stories." 1e poet says, ‘A vague unrest and a nameless longing filled her “But this isn’t a war-sto Mr. Cosyainp (of Boston)—'*11 breast." Do you ever feel like that? It tells all about it . “the lives of the messenger-boys.” Miss SPANKERBRERZE (of St. Paul)—"* Lord, yes! I'm seasick most every time I cross the pond THE ONLY EXPLANATION. Vhat's become of that beautiful typewriter you used to have?” ‘ou must be dreaming. I never had a beautiful typewriter." Jinks (to Aimself)—"* Great Scott! he must have married her.” comicbooks.com