Judge, 1899-06-24 · page 7 of 17
Judge — June 24, 1899 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple short humorous sketches typical of early 20th-century American satire: **"The Hobos' Horrible Mistake"** mocks rural/working-class dialect and patent medicine culture, showing characters discussing a fake "Eureka energy-infuser" tonic. **"Blissful Ignorance"** satirizes wives as gullible, believing whatever husbands tell them—reflecting period attitudes about women's credulity. **"A Wild-Animal Tamer"** is a tall tale about someone who tamed mosquitoes in New Jersey, mocking exaggeration. **"A Dare-Devil"** contrasts military courage with the audacity of young men openly announcing engagements and appearing happy—treating romance as recklessly brave. **"She'd Take Care of Him"** uses African American dialect humor (common in this era's satire, though offensive today) about courtship, suggesting women will pursue marriage aggressively without male effort. The page relies on period stereotypes, patent medicine hucksterism, and assumptions about gender, class, and race that reflect 1900s American attitudes rather than endorsing them by modern standards.
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OR, THE SAD THE HOBOS’ HORRIBLE MISTAK EFFE INFUSER. ECTS OF THE ENERGY « Aust MaTiLDa—"‘Abner, you're lookin’ kinder peak like, “Why don’t you take a dose of that * Eureker energ: fuser’ what the druggist gave you for his milk-bill?” BLISSFUL IGNORANCE. SS HLALF the world does not ka How the other half lives.” With the better-half ‘tis so, Swallowing lies her husband gives. 2. UNcLe Aun uage A WILD-ANIMAL TAMER. HE LIVED in New Jersey a summer ago To enjoy both sea and land, And then he had tamed the mosquitoes so They would eat right off his hand, FORETHOUGHT. Uncle Jedediah—" So ye writ ter Abner, tellin’ him Jake was sick? I'll be all right if he gits the letter ter-mor- rer. Uhope he'll think ter go ter the post-office.” Filura—* He will, 1 sent him a postal-card at the same time, tellin’ him that I'd writ him a letter.” R. air— W-what's that? STRANGE. = ALTHOUGHT itis quite nat. ural, It really seems a sin : Whene He LOOKED LIKE ver he can raise the wind promptly blows it in, IT. SOYVHAT'S that fufty han are!" substance in your Milkweed." “ How small the strands “Yes; this is probably PRACTICING ON THE PIANO. Mr. Jonson: condensed milk-weed.” A DARE-DEVIL NEL. JoNES—"* The cool, dare-devil nerve ng Americans is simply astounding.” * Vou refer to our soldiers in the of our yi Mrs. Joes: ai Phiti Cotonet Joxes—"No; T refer to young Smith. He's going around telling everybody he's engaged, and actually smiling about it.” SHE'D TAKE CARE OF HIM. 1 am tinkin’ seriously ob marryin’ Miss Honeysuckle Hamfatt, but don’t know jes’ how to go about it.” Mk. Jackson—" Ob, jes’ keep pufficly still an’ mind yo'r own business, She'll nail yo" all right. comicbooks.com