Judge — September 16, 1899 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains miscellaneous humor pieces and a two-panel comic strip titled "HAD NO BOTTOM IN IT." The strip shows a domestic scene where a woman (appearing to be a wife) confronts a man (Uncle Jeff) about a chair. In the first panel, Uncle Jeff sits in a chair that breaks beneath him. In the second panel, the woman tells him to "go long wild; you; dey ain't no bottom in it"—a dialect joke playing on the chair's broken state and the man's fall. The surrounding text pieces are brief comic anecdotes on various topics (cards, horses, babies, etc.). This is typical filler content from early-20th-century humor magazines. The "Joe Miller's Jestbook" reference in the decorative frame suggests these are traditional jokes rather than commentary on contemporary political events.