Judge, 1900-01-13 · page 7 of 16
Judge — January 13, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces mocking rural naïveté and urban sophistication. The main feature, "Her Wish," presents Farmer Honk's commentary on city versus country people. Honk argues that rural visitors to cities are mocked as "green" (unsophisticated), yet city people visiting the countryside are equally foolish. He illustrates this through a boarder who doesn't understand what a "bee-hive" is—she asks him to "husk" them, confusing the structure with husking bees (community work events). The cartoon "Smith's Little Scheme" appears to show a man learning to skate, suggesting comedic incompetence. "An Impostor" sarcastically notes that a man claiming to be from Kentucky lacks the violent credentials (shooting) or political prominence supposedly characteristic of the state. "The Loving Mother-Country" satirizes Britain's sudden friendliness toward America, suggesting it's merely self-interested—Britain now claims retrospective sympathy for America's Revolutionary War against "the Hessians."
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‘There is nothing so good for the complexion as. a brick. 1, ** Watch Smith. N= THINK IT OVER, SMITH’S LITTLE SCHEME, HER DIARY. W brooms sweep clean, as every one must know. While she at first is careful to express Each trifle in detail, how soon ‘twill grow “+ Small by degrees and beautifully less.” ** Gee whiz! I wonder how much they wants fer de planer?” uae HER WISH. — ory GUESS it is a fact,” re- marked honest Farmer Honk, “ that some of us coun- try people act pretty green when we go up to the city. We gener'ly gawp at every- thing that interests us, an’ git run over more or less, or clubbed, or moved on, or gold-bricked,, or Jost, or skin- ned in some amusin’ way, till I don’t ‘much blame the city folks for laughin’ at us. But, after all, I don’t know that we are so awful much greener when we git outside of our accustomed ballywhacks than the city people that snicker at us are when they git away + from their own familiar stampin’-grounds. ‘Pears to me they are jest as foolish about things they don’t un- derstand as we are. “I've kinder formed this opinion by watchin’ the ac- tions of one of the new boarders over at my place—a fluffy girl with melt- in’ eyes an’ a trust- ful manner, that He's just learning to skate. — came day before yesterday, I was showin’ her round the farm, soon after her arrival—suthin’ like my second cousin shows me round the city when I make him a visit—an' presently, when I says to her, pointin’'em out, ‘Them's the bee-hives, Miss Sweet,’ she answered with a charmin’ smile, : < “*Oh,are they? Do you know, Mr. Honk, I have heard so much about husking-bees in the country that I wish you would husk a few of them for me now, if you don’t mind, 3 : so that I may see just how you do it. Won’tyou, please?" “An’ I couldn't laugh, you know, b’cuz she’s a nice, innocent little girl, an’ also b’euz she is payin’ liberal for her board; but I do’ sartinly think that, green as I am, 1 couldn’t. do worse than that if T was in the city!” Toit Pe yorcan. AN EXCEPTION. FATHER—“ History repeats itself,” Sox—''It don’t in our school, They make us kids do ft.” AN IMPOSTOR. The reporter—"He says he’s from Kentucky.?" The editor —* But he never shot anybody,..and 1 . can't recall his name on any Ha, ha!— of the state tickets.” 2. +—There he goes! THE DARK SIDE. F NEW YEAR: though we think a heap To some it seems a persecution, For now we are supposed to keep Both diary and resolution. THE LOVING MOTHER- COUNTRY. Warwick— England keeps getting friendlier than ever to us. since:she got into trouble with” Wickwire—'Yes. She now claims that she sympathized with us in our war with the Hessians