Judge, 1899-12-09 · page 4 of 16
Judge — December 9, 1899 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains miscellaneous satirical content rather than a unified political cartoon. **"To My Old Chequebook"** is sentimental verse by Catherine Vour Clark about a well-used checkbook, personifying it as a friend through shared experiences. **"Chiddes Favorites"** features Mary Sanders, a Boston society figure, with commentary on her pet preferences. **"His Superiority"** presents a brief joke about someone named Cyrano de Bergerac being a "popular freak," mocking pretension through nose-related humor. **"Bridget Puts the Light Out"** appears a domestic servant humor cartoon. The **stained-glass window design** depicts Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago—notable enough for the national museum at Washington, D.C. **"An Illusive Summer Fog"** shows Fittum & Co., apparently a tailor facing business failure, using smoke as cover—a visual pun on business deception.
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TO MY OLD CHEQUE- BOOK. GHOSTS of tong-departed dollars, Shades of broadcloth, wraiths of collars, Mockeries of dues and dinners. Bets at which we weren't winners, Sugared nothings, cabs and flowers (For the girl we thought was ours), How you lift your canceled faces, Featured with such staring traces ! How you bid my blushes own Follies you and I have known! Yet—re-fold the yellow covers— ‘We've been playmates, comrades, lov- ens; Blithely have we lived, none nearer, Closer, each to each, or dearer, Spent is spent and can’t be mended, Shall we quarrel, now all 's ended ? Rather as I found you, lying Safe from harsher, colder eying, Mellow in your dusty nook, With our sins, old friend, old book. CATHERINE YOUNG GLEK, ONLY THE STARS. Nan (a little fresh-air girl, on Phota. by Chickering . being taken into the country in the JUDGE'S FAVORITES. evening)—" My! I should think the PASY SANDED: sky out here ‘d feel awfully sensitive to be freckled so" OW, You ‘Il agree no soubreite else is ‘zactly just so. HIS SUPERIORITY. seAW. Y said the ele- phant, with a scornful snort. “According to the news- Paper article I heard the keeper reading a while ago, that fellow, Cyrano de Bergerac, is a pretty popular freak. But I've got him beat a good many points.” He waved his trunk trium- vhantly, “Just look at the length of amy nose, will you ?” EGOTISM. Love is blind. Sad to find That defect ‘mongst so many; Bat self-love is the kind That is blinder than any. NO. XIIL—MAYOR CARTER HARRISON OF CHICAGO. Juncr’s design for stained-glass windows to be placed in the national museum at Washington, D. C. hy ‘AN ILLUSIVE SUMMER FOG. “* Dear me! here's Fittum's, the tailor, and I still owe him for my summer suit. I'll have to smoke up a bit—— —and get by under cover, comicbooks.com