Judge, 1899-12-30 · page 8 of 17
Judge — December 30, 1899 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two unrelated pieces of 1890s humor: **Top left:** "Clever Oldboy's Patent Snow-Remover" depicts a Professor Longhair using his own hair as a stage prop to create "imitations of well-known characters"—a vaudeville-style performance joke about a bald man's impractical snow-removal invention. **Right side:** Two separate Christmas scenes featuring African American characters in dialect humor (typical of the era's racist comic conventions). In the first, "Jim Johnson" gives Deacon Jackson a dog as a Christmas gift for his daughter. In the second, a man inventories gifts: a "dram" (drink), bicycle, skates, cloak—satirizing the chaotic Christmas morning gift-giving process through exaggerated list-recitation. The page appears to be miscellaneous comic content rather than unified political satire. The racial caricatures reflect Judge's problematic historical attitudes, though the actual jokes focus on everyday holiday absurdities rather than explicit political commentary.
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(CLEVER OLDBOY'S PATENT SNOW-REMOVER. Paovesson LoncHain —"‘ Ladies and gentlemen, L with no other ald than my hair T will give you a few “As last it ls snowing. Now Ihave an opportunity "tations of well-known characters.’ to try my new patent.” L Jn JOHNSON (at ten p. m., Christmas eve)—" Heah’s a little present fo’ yo'r daughter Angeline dat I bought. sbe's often said she wanted a dawg, yo’ know. tie him at de foot ob de Chris’mas-tree, whar she kin find him de fust t'ing in de mawnin’. Deacon Jackson—"' T’ank yo’, Jim! She'll be delighted—‘deed she will.” “ . —— by a simple twist of the wrist it does the trick.” ——Let ine see; heah's a dram fo’ Harry, an’ a bisickle fo’ Ethel, an’ skates fo’ John, an’ slippers fo pa, an’ a cloak ¢e’ ea, an’— COPYRONT 1699 BY JUOGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. A CHRIST comicbooks.com