Judge, 1900-01-13 · page 4 of 16
Judge — January 13, 1900 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains several unrelated satirical pieces and advertisements. **"The Mastery"** depicts a romantic scene with poetry about a man (Bijou) kissing a woman (Mabel). The satire appears to mock Victorian courtship rituals and the servant-master dynamic referenced in the quoted exchanges. **"Judge's Favorites"** is a brief character definition of "facetious" behavior—mocking people who ask annoying questions ("Did you fall?"). **"Sympathy for Them"** humorously describes a countryman's reaction to seeing a giraffe at the zoo, suggesting rural naiveté about exotic animals. **"Quick Service"** is a two-panel comic satirizing slow restaurant service—the customer grows increasingly frustrated as the waiter fails to deliver coffee promptly, finally receiving it as an impossibly long stream. The page primarily uses humor to mock social pretension, rural ignorance, and service-industry incompetence.
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Photo. by Pach. a JUDGE'S’ FAVORITES, MARIE GEORGE, The average Casino girl Is noticed by the critic ehurl But seldom, save as duty. When one is singled out, as here, To photograph and stanza dear, yy George! she isa beauty. FrACETIOUS — Said of persons who approach with great commiseration, when you have measured your length on the ice, and inquire, “Did you fall?” BILL oF FARE HAM AND 8 TRIPE Ie THE MASTERY. WHEN Bijou kissed fair Mabel’s face ‘An envious feeling seized me, I bade him come down from his place, ‘Then Mabel's red lips teased me By calling him to fond embrace, When Bijou kissed fair Mabel’s face. “« Thy servant is a dog,” she quoth : Then mentally I reckoned * Oh, Bijou, what if now we both Do what those lips then beck- oned.”” She turned her face and low, as loth, “Thy servant is a dog,” she quoth. “* If servitude wins vantage such What would thy master gain, dear?” She put a hand to meet my touch And whispered — I could scarce hear— “* A master mind would harvest much If servitude wins vantage such.” ALICE CRARY, SYMPATHY FOR THEM. ON HIS first visit to the city Ben- nie had been taken to the zoo to see the giraffe. “I guess he came from the country, too," ex- claimed the little fellow soberly, “and got that awfully long neck trying to see up to the tops of the high buildings.” QUICK LUNGH GOLF TERM. On the links. THERE ARE MANY SUCH. Asking ton—* Hoopler is a sanguine soul, isn’t he?” Grimshaw —"To some extent, but a good deal of what he believes to be hope in his breast is merely the unfettered fermentation of prunes.” BILL oF FARE HAM AND- IRIPE 1OASI x ANVASBACK SSAGE QUICK SERVICE. “Hey, there ! hurry up with that coffee.” “There you are, sir.” comicbooks.com