Judge, 1899-11-04 · page 7 of 16
Judge — November 4, 1899 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains six unrelated humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century American satire: **"Anything for a Ride"** mocks children's willingness to fabricate illness for entertainment—after one girl gets a legitimate toothache treated in town, boys fake dental pain to enjoy the carriage ride, sacrificing their teeth for the thrill. **"Highway Robbery," "Its Toughness," "One Thing in the Way,"** and **"A Boston Bird"** are brief joke vignettes about working-class speech patterns, maritime travel complaints, and pretentious Boston attitudes respectively. **"The Ambitions of Youth"** satirizes childhood absurdity—a child wishes to both crow and lay eggs simultaneously, a logical impossibility that critiques childish reasoning. **"Getting Good"** jokes about religious hypocrisy: a woman who joined the church supposedly showed moral improvement only by hemming her bicycle-skirt higher—a superficial change mocking performative piety. The cartoons feature exaggerated character types and working-class dialect humor common to the era's satirical magazine style.
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A HIGHWAY ROBBERY. ANYTHING FOR A RIDE. SOME. fresh -air children were staying in a large farm-house on the | outskirts of a pretty - town. One of the little girls had a bad ? toothache. It was found necessary to drive into town with her and have the tooth removed. Next morning two more of the children announced that their teeth ached. They were taken in ITS TOUGHNESS, PAKIN' av mate,” remarked Mc- Lubberty as he paused jin his work to load and light his pipe, “we hod . . ; FRENCH KID. some av de @ | , toughest mate \ for treatment. Coming back the older boy fer brickfast this , ps Na 3 was overheard to say,“ Ain't this bully? marnin’ thot Ot i I told Jim to come, but he was skecred. iver hod the 3 Dida’t hurt much.” pleasure av D A Tears sprang to the eyes of Mrs. A. unable to at as she realized, with a gasp, that for the 2 Teugb Nas . i sake of the nde into town the boys had ut?” asked Hoo- a sacrificed their teeth. An omnibus was ey. 7 provided to take the children driving every Vis. .O11 : day after that, and 4 ace oie there was not another thot O1 could hardly stick me fork into the gravy.” oar . 5 23 MANGARET WENTWORTH. ONE THING IN THE WAY. J Mrs. Newcomb—" How did you enjoy your voyage ¢ $ iS GETTING to Europe, dear?” : GOOD. Nizce—" Splendidly—all but the water, auntie.” Madge— Why do you think she has known a change of heart since she joined the church?" Marjorie—" She has let out the hem _around the bottom of her bicycle-skirt.”” SITY fure nishes the bud. A BOSTON BIRD. «6 DOES Polly want D a cracker?” asked the thoughtless individual. “ This is not a case of want,” replied Polly, who was a Boston bird. “T require a biscu IMMOVABLE, Lawyer—" Do you swear the collision THE AMBITIONS OF YOUTH. raised the entire car?” “Mamma, have I got a wish-bone ?” Witness—" Well, it “Yes, dear.” "Well, then, I wish that T could crow and lay eggs.” raised everything but “Bat, Henry, my dear, you have only one wish-bone.” the windows, comicbooks.com