Judge, 1900-03-31 · page 7 of 16
Judge — March 31, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical vignettes typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Bad"** mocks Irish immigrants through dialect humor about seasickness. **"Explained"** jokes about regional American stereotypes—contrasting a New York girl's question about Chicago's name with a Boston girl's dismissive answer about the city lacking sophistication ("all go and no chic"). **"In South Africa"** references the Boer War, showing a British officer chasing an Irish soldier who claims he "can't fly"—satirizing Irish reluctance to fight Britain's colonial wars. **"Costs Money"** is a marriage joke: a woman wanted a wealthy duke but her father couldn't afford the dowry. **"Cleverly Done"** features a detective exposing a male forger disguised as a woman by noticing his use of feminine phrases like "just too sweet"—the humor relies on gender stereotype assumptions about language. **"Why the Operation Was Not Performed"** uses dialect humor with a Black patient refusing surgery, claiming laziness rather than actual illness. The page relies heavily on ethnic stereotypes and period prejudices now considered offensive.
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yure wife sea-sick on the boat ?” Kelley—" Was ‘she sick! She was thot bad she couldn't kape any- thing on her stomach except her hands.” EXPLAINED. New York girl— “Why is it called Chi- cago?" Boston girl —" Be- Hirro—" Macaroni and dumplings! Just what I’ve been Cause it’s all go and no t4% longing for.” chic.” TPoathrn btanee, COSTS MONEY. She thought when she resolved to wed, SOUTH AFRICA. ‘A duke would be so nice ; Loxp Swisners—* Hi! hi! What are you running away for?” But when she asked her pa he said Par (of the Irish fusiliers)—' Begob, because I can’t fly !” He didn’t have the price. CLEVERLY DONE. T HAD been PUT AY LIVULE a most clever S8WOBS AWAY capture, and . the eminent 4 Z% S detective’s friends were congratulat- ing him. The distinguished forger had very carefully covered all clews, as he thought, and was living in seclusion, guised as a woman. One day he wrote anoteinadis- guised fem- inine hand, and it fell into the detective’s hands. “But how,” demanded the detective's friends, “did you come to suspect that the note was written by a man, when it con- tained such phrases as ‘just too sweet for anything '?” WHY THE OPERATION: WAS NOT PERFORMED. “I'll tell you,” replied the Doctor Sawyer (in consultation)-astNow, Dr. Payse, you wait till I saw him open, and den you kin take the gaat eee euiaions tongs and grab his liver, while Dr. in chop into” ae ex ‘THE PaTiRNT—"* Hol’ on dere, doc! I feel so well dat I doan believe dey’s anything de matter wid me ‘cept jus’ laziness were not underscored. an’ shif'lessness.” (Mis diagnosis was right.) ee comicbooks.com