Judge, 1900-03-24 · page 7 of 16
Judge — March 24, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge contains multiple unrelated jokes and cartoons typical of the publication's format. **"Significant Signal"** is a pun: Klondike gold miners used "Lawyer!" as a signal to turn over in their cramped sleeping quarters. "Lawyer" meant "lie on the other side"—a joke about lawyers being associated with deception. **"Revised to Date"** references the Second Boer War (1899-1902), comparing March's weather saying to Britain's military fortunes: if March comes in "like a lion," it must go out "like a Boer"—implying British weakness against Boer fighters. **"Universal"** jokes about Lenten sacrifice—girls give up their diaries during Lent. **"Consolation"** satirizes marriage: a ruined man's wife only cares about divorce settlement money. **"The Borrower"** puns on "Lent" (lending/borrowing versus the religious season). **"The Domestic Barometer"** shows economic improvement: wives now demand expensive furs instead of yarn for darning. **"Cholly in Florida"** features wordplay: "Bee-mine" sounds like "be mine," with visual gags of a man encountering bees and snakes.
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Siage Hh jp SIGNIFICANT SIGNAL. PA\m 1 W ++] WAS much amused,” said f H Cawker to Cumso, “at what a returned Klondiker told me of the customs of the gold- mines.” Interesting and funny, were they?” “ He said that in his shanty six men slept together. They all lay in a row, like spoons in a case, facing one way, to keep warm. When one of them be- came tired of lying on one side he would call out * Lawyer,’ they would all turn at once.’ “Why did they use the word “lawyer?” “That meant ‘Lie on the other side.’ * My) H REVISED TO DATE. THIS year we amend the old saying ; No longer ‘twill read as before: If March cometh in like a lion "Twill have to go out like a Boer. UNIVERSAL. Cora—"Do you know the one thing that nearly every girl gives up during Lent?” Wee Tage “ante 2 tbe Rete sep ero Ui Ae That arya eer of the year.” CONSOLATION, Mr. Srockjosper—'* Darling, I am com- pletely ruined, I have only two hundred dollars jeft out of all my fortune.” Mrs. Stock jonuer—'' Don't worry, dear heart! ‘That will be enough for me to get a divorce with. Where is it?" THE BORROWER. TO. TELL hard-luck stories he ever is prone When the cash he once had has been spent; Tut you find out whenever you're touched for a Joan That he keeps everything except Lent. THE DOMESTIC BAROMETER. Stranger—* Well, | hope times are bet- ter among you than they were a few years ago.” Native— They are, mister. My wife's demandin’ a fifty-dollar set of furs this year as against nothin’ but a ball of yarn fer darn- ; : ITALIAN coLLECToR—"' Canna mea comma ina yarda and picka up bones?” in’ fer the correspondin’ period of last year.” MAN (at the fence)—"* Certainly ; but what ye going to do—drive tandem?" CHOLLY IN FLORIDA. Cnotty—"* Darling, be mine !—— —Great snakes! Bee-mine! bee-mine !” comicbooks.com |