Judge, 1899-11-25 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 25, 1899 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This Judge magazine page contains satirical stories and cartoons from the early 20th century. **"The Football 'Leven"** recounts a youth football team marching to battle with colorful player names (Bryant Hassett, Herbert Breese, Captain Bergram, Schmidt, etc.). The narrative uses mock-heroic language comparing football to warfare. **"Turkey Song"** is sentimental verse about turkeys destined for Thanksgiving dinner—a darkly comic commentary on holiday tradition. The cartoons mock domestic life: one shows a wife waiting to serve dinner while her husband delays; another depicts a man surprised by his wife's bill, with a joke about calling women "dearest" regardless of marital status; a final cartoon features a woman refusing to pay, quipping "No, ye don't. I didn't order it, an' I won't pay." The humor relies on early 20th-century domestic stereotypes and gender dynamics typical of Judge's satirical approach.
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THE FOOT-BALL "LEVEN. HEY marched away, one au- tumn day. with courage in their faces— a foot-ball ‘leven, brave and gay and full of manly graces. There were Bryant Bas- sett, Herbert Breese, ambitious and defiant, bold Captain Bing- ram, valiant Schmidt, and Gunn —a gallant giant; there were Frank R. Fraygle, Sun- beam Phelps, and Homes (all men of spirit); a grave young don and Mister Bigg—of mus- cle and of merit ; there were Gil- bert Attick, Flannagan—athletic and pugnacious — all bound to win a foot-ball game with tactics most sagacious. They marched away with * Rah, rah, rah!” and “Sis, boom, bah!” resounding, their quarter- backs and half - backs braced, their heart - beats loudly pound- ing. ‘They sniffed the battle Photo, by Sareny from afar, and when they snuffed JUDGE'S FAVORITES. it nigher their full backs swelled MINNIE MADDERN- FISKE AS ‘* BECKY SHARP.” to fuller backs, the foot - ball Your art ss one with Thackeray's, He shaped mitch 10k Gre ‘They apeang: upon the enemy with masterful endeavor; they touched them =< Tis The vanity and heartbreak of st all, down and touched them up with 3 TURKEY SONG. punches strong and clever. he es MY SINGS were to fly with, aa firoene ae iis ji toot nt sem? COULDN'T FOOL HIM. o sNlulnenisnianitno gay € qeecnn S23 reessea | I é ‘Hie OOest raise Z And broken to stay— ‘My heart in the gravy AVAIL: Leal od > some wonder fel Mings2ss Sy But not into song (eee | 4} \= NO. X1L—MR. SILV EIN, GOVERNOR OF ‘The dinner is long z MISSOURI. ‘To see the sweet smile that ‘Though happy Iam as Jupce’s design for stained-glass windows to be placed in Mites Bobby 50 gey— \ the national museum at Washington, D.C. My beost faiths geet As tooth and nail they bit and scratched—their motions s beating away $ : quite ungainly— Shake not your gory locks at me,” each cried to each insanely; and every man with both his feet did jump on every other till not a mother's son but looked a stranger to his mother. Could rise on the dish, The shades of night were falling when the ‘leven A banquet forever > plucky creatures, with half-backs and with quarter-backs Nyhen Aepey and half and quarter features, were softly borne to home, a balineasey sweet home, and all their broken portions most carefully ui disposed of in odd phases of contortions Mus. GRORGE ARCHIMALD. My end is most happy, And yet dof wish ‘That I like the phoenix A SAD CASE. SUITS. p = THE turkey isa guiletess bird, 1S Peesseg And really ‘tis a sin ‘To think the way that every year ‘The public takes him in. You wair SPOKE ADVISEDLY. Ars, Swayback —“ Mr. Critchlow calls his wife * deares Mr, Swayback —* That 1s the proper form of the ad- jective to use. He has been married three times.” A SAD TRAVESTY. Jaggles — Why were they called an amateur lynch- ing party raid enh Feat Waggles —" Because 3 they lynched the right man.” “No, ye don’t, I didn't order it, an’ I won't pay.” comicbooks.com