Judge, 1900-05-05 · page 3 of 16
Judge — May 5, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical "Books" sections with brief jokes and illustrations rather than a single coherent cartoon. The top illustration shows what appears to be a period interior scene with figures in formal dress, labeled "HOW HE LOOKED," referencing Shakespeare and a contemporary person. The middle section includes a cartoon of a rotund man in striped clothing conversing with a tall figure, apparently satirizing social pretension or class differences. Lower sections titled "WHERE THE BLAME LIES" and "THEIR CRAZE" appear to mock American agricultural practices and churchyard behavior through dialogue between British and American characters, suggesting transatlantic cultural criticism. The page employs typical Judge-style social commentary through caricature and dialogue, though specific political targets aren't clearly identifiable from available context.
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HOW HE LOOKED. PorkcHors —" That is one of my first ancestors—a contemporary and personal friend of William Shakespeare.” HamManp —"‘Ah, one can almost imagine him quoting his friend's famous lines, ‘ To what base uses have I come at last !'” A NOVEL PRECAUTION. CARELESSNESS OF A CROWNED HEAD. {t WAS the first time Dorothy had seen a street-sprinkler. “ Oh, Uncle Si —* Queen Wilhelminy ‘s been robbed of her silverware.” mamma,” she exclaimed with wide-open eyes, “just see what that Aunt Furby —"Land sakes, how shiftless! Left it layin’ round in man ‘s got on his wagon to keep the plain sight in the butt'ry after th’ boys from riding on behind !" comp'ny had went hum, I s'pose.” AY REALIZED DESIRE: WHERE THE BLAME LIES. THE wish that I were Mabel’s glove My No more does round me linger, oe How do you account for the For that is really what I am — g reverses the British suffered She twists me round her finger. “CAUSE AND EFFECT.” at first in South Africa?” said young Spykes to his uncle, a farmer, who was making his nephew a little visit.“ Things are so very. very different now.” “They my own theory about: it,” re- plied the agriculturist. “T think them derned trusts is principerly re- sponsible.” THEIR CRAZE, Englishman (point- ing to church-yard in the distance)—* What is going on over there? I've frequently noticed that these American church-yards of yours seem to be the scene of some strange activity.” American —“ Ah, that’s one phase of the mining-craze.” Englishman (scan- dalized) — “ Grubbing for gold in a church- yard? What incon- A DIFFERENT STYLE. ceivable vandalism !" Don't you often regret having led such a American —“Oh, Sonvier ——"* ee - it’s not gold these grub- more fon ina checkered cree an tigre fin astdjed one’ bersare after; is an- and that’s no comic-paper joke, either.” cestors.”” THe BAD EGG—" Your ma is looking everywhere for you.” ‘Tae Tovont cick —"'Aw, tell her in out! es comicbooks.com