Judge, 1900-06-09 · page 3 of 16
Judge — June 9, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon, "Shakespeare in Possumville," satirizes a theatrical performance of Shakespeare in what appears to be a rural or working-class American setting, contrasting high culture with lowbrow entertainment. The scene depicts a crowded, chaotic audience watching a performance, likely mocking the democratization of classical theater or absurdity of staging Shakespeare in inappropriate venues. Below, "A May-Day Idle" is a poem, followed by "Just Mr. Mouse's Luck"—a brief humorous anecdote about a mouse and fish. The two bottom panels show a romantic comedy scenario involving "Miss Benson" and a shoe, playing on the conventional "lost shoe" trope from fairy tales, suggesting romantic mishaps and confusion. The overall page mixes literary satire, light verse, and domestic humor typical of Judge's editorial approach.
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PRESERVED SEATS AT DE Box OFFICE B A MAY-DAY IDLE, ? TWAS May the first, Beneath the skies ‘They rode, with spring-time in their eyes. Like life's inflation they could feel The buoyant tire of tireless wheel. The day and their two selves combined To stir the soul and move the mind. “Oh, tell me, maid,” he leaned to say, “If on your lips the word is May !” She blushed ; she knew the thing he mearit. She yielded with a shy consent A little boon ; so quickly o'er He scarce was glad for wanting more. “Alas! the brevity of bliss,” He cried, ‘and such an hour as this!” But she, half tender and half gay. Replied, ‘ There comes another 3 The happy day had taken fight; They stood to speak a slow good-night. And now the man with pensive tone The parting hour would fain postpone Till he should lure the maid to say Some pretty pun about the May, ke that which heartened up his heart Aforetime with its artless art. [RICHARD Wi DE FUNNIEST TRAGEDY} DAT SHAKESIERE EVERI Wwrot Fuun oB TRUBBLE. SHAKESPEARE IN POSSUMVILLE, “*A horse! a horse! "My kingdom fer an automobile.” JUST MR. MOUSE'S LUCK. Jounniz Moust —" Great heavens! There's a cat- ish.” \ Mr. Buti—*' Hello! there is Miss Bennem, one of those pretty summer-boarders, VWNon't she scamper up that tree when she sees me?” So he recalled, as lovers do, The lovely love-time—made for two; Declared its length was but a Rehearsed the melancholy ‘*if “Where waits another day so rare? When shall ourselves its sweetness share? What if no more with you I stray?” She sighed, yet smiled—"Another May.” ‘Then home he fared, and more and more He turned that punning answer o'er. **“Another May’ there waits a day ; We'll share its joy ‘another May.” And if with her I do not stray Another may—another may.” His May-time memory as he went Now hardly gave him half content. **T wooed, I'sued, I won her yea, I did; but, then, another may.” ‘The pun he pondered as he went And sought his pillow, scarce content. MRS, GEORGE ARCHIBALD, ‘THE woman who forgives easily has a great deal of it to do. But the shoe was on the other foot. comicbooks.com |