Judge, 1900-06-02 · page 6 of 16
Judge — June 2, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from the satirical magazine **Judge** contains several unrelated humorous pieces: **Top illustration**: A racist caricature depicting Black figures ("Gran'pap" and "Little Posey") supposedly running for "fun"—likely mocking Black dialect and perpetuating harmful stereotypes common to the era. **Main article**: Edward Everett Hale, a Boston clergyman and animal welfare advocate, is gently mocked for claiming fifteen cats sleep under his veranda nightly. The satire suggests he's either exaggerating or naive about cat behavior, humorously questioning whether cats actually sleep peacefully together. **Lower cartoons**: "His Little Joke" depicts working-class Irish immigrants ("Clancy" and "Hooligan") at a cheap restaurant, while "Business Competition in Hester Street" shows Jewish immigrants haggling over a balloon game—ethnic stereotypes typical of Judge's satirical approach to urban immigrant communities. The page exemplifies Judge's mix of gentle social commentary and crude ethnic caricature reflecting late 19th/early 20th-century American prejudices.
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WASN'T SCARED. Lirrie Posvey—"* Gran’pap, is yo" skeered at sumpfin’ ?” Granprap—"* Co'se I ain't skeered, yo’ lil’ fool! I's jes’ runnin’ fo’ fun, to see how fas’ I kin go.” pew Rk. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, our I] genial and distinguished clerical friend, who lives (beg pardon, I should have said resides) in Boston, was elected a director of the animal rescue league the other day, and in accepting the office he told his fel- low-directors and the reporters present his position on the cat question. He said that no fewer than fifteen cats sleep under his veranda every night We are bound to accept these statistics as correct because Doctor Hale did not qualify them in any way. He did not say “about fifteen cats,” nor that the conver- sation of the animals seemed to him to justify an estimate of fifteen. Not fewer than fifteen, said he. The inference is that sometimes there are more. Doctor Hale does not say, either, that he sleeps while the cats are there, He says that the cats sleep. It is fair to pre= sume, too, that the cats take turn-about sleeping, for no one who has had the smallest experience with cats will believe that the fifteen cats under Doctor Hale's veranda spend the night in sleeping in a wholesale way. We may even doubt if any of them sleep, notwithstanding Doctor Hale’s statement—that 1s, if Boston cats are anything like cats of other American cities. ‘The purpose of Doctor Hale’s remarks was to inculcate kindness to animals, and Bin of Fare [+ Sencunches' WNL | tl li HW bit VAAN HIS LITTLE JOKE. CLancy—"* Shure. Hooligan, accordin’ to thot bill-av-fare yer eatin’, yer dinner musht make ye feel loike thirty cints.” EDWARD EVERETT HALE AND sy py i] i THE CATS. ig TS ay BUSINESS COMPETITION IN HESTER STREET. CoueN (excitedly) —"* A dollar-bill to der man vat shoods der balloon !" to cats in particular. Only treat cats with courtesy and in Process of time you may accumulate as many cats under your veranda at night as Doctor Hale has succeeded in doing. It is all very well to be kind to animals, but Doctor Hale may be very sly in giving this advice. He hopes that some one else will win the affection of his fifteen cats and coax them Coffee - 104 away. WILLIAM HENRY SIVITRR, FROM OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT. Farmer Hiram van Guysling is getting ready to cut his corn. comicbooks.com