Judge, 1900-05-12 · page 6 of 16
Judge — May 12, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* contains several satirical pieces: **"No Lodgment Here for Love"** is a poetic cartoon showing Love personified rejected by a "broken heart"—likely satirizing emotional coldness or misanthropy in society. **"High-Pressure Journalism"** mocks sensationalist newspaper practices, depicting the *Daily Howl* (a fictional yellow-journalism parody) where editorial writers are physically roughed up by muscular men representing "common evils" to inspire inflammatory writing. This critiques how newspapers manufactured outrage for circulation. **"Ante-Natal Preparation"** is a brief joke about a child asking if a hunchbacked man knew his deformity "before he was born"—gentle mockery of childhood logic. **"Assuredly American"** satirizes Puerto Rican immigrants naming their children after diseases ("Malaria and Neuralgia") they learned from American almanacs—mocking both American insularity and the period's casual xenophobia. These pieces reflect *Judge's* focus on social criticism and contemporary American life during the turn-of-the-century era.
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NO LODGMENT HERE FOR LOVE. Once Love, the truant, blindly strayed Then did the dicky-bird up-start: * Upon a'wintry wold. “This place is cold and sere— He spied a distant heart and said, In fact, it is a broken heart,” . “Ah! here is shelter from the cold.” It siid, ‘* you'll find no lodging here. PAID. WHEN Amesbury, the fash- ionable tailor, sent his bill to Flammout he wrote jocosely at the bottom, “ This is old enough to grow whiskers.” Whereupon Flammout inclosed a quarter in a note, saying, “ Find remittance within to get account shaved.” ASSUREDLY AMERI- CAN. Smal! Puerto Rican (wheel- ing twin babies) —"I go to American school.” New-Yorker— Indeed? What do you learn there?” Small Puerto Rican— “American, My teacher give me American almanac and 1 find names for my sisters.” New~Yorker—" What are they ?”” HIGH-PRESSURE JOURNALISM, Small Puerto Rican (proud- 1, The editor of the Daily Howl adds a new department to his paper. A room is set apart where his editorial writers are !y)—“ They pretty American handled very roughly by muscular men, each representing some common evil. When the writers become wild with rage—— names—Malaria and Neuralgia.” ANTE-NATAL PREPARATION. TT TAT RTT TTT TTT BETH bad never before seen a hump-backed man. “Mamma,” she | jy, qn CT cD Th Ni l i whispered softly, “did he know he was going to have a bicycle My an \ \ iil AUT before he was born?” "WMd Tete aT {| Ants —** Come on, fellows! Here's Gulliver!" ‘2. —— they retire to the editorial room and turn out editorials that fairly scream. comicbooks.com