Judge, 1900-07-07 · page 3 of 16
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**Top Cartoon: "Shakespeare in Possumville"** This satirizes a dramatic club's production of "Merchant of Venice," with Antonio and Bassanio visiting a character named Shylock for money. The setting is a seedy establishment (Rabbit Inn, bar, barber shop) rather than Venice. The humor derives from transposing Shakespeare into a low-class American setting, mocking both amateur theatrical productions and the pretensions of small-town drama clubs attempting classical plays. **Bottom Cartoon: "A Reminder"** A domestic scene where a man playing violin tells his wife to "say, take this dime and move along." The wife responds sarcastically: "How do you suppose I can break my hens of setting if you keep playing 'All I want is my chicken'?" The joke plays on the song title's double meaning—treating the wife's complaint about his violin playing as literally about chickens, creating absurdist humor typical of Judge's style.
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it is just as true to- day as it was then. There are pretty nearly as many different kinds of husbands as there are different hus- bands, and the proper ways of managin’ ‘em are just about as nu- merous. What's one man’s meat is an- other man’s poison, you know, and the treatment that will make one husband a model and a cri- terion is very liable to cause another to become a cynic and a misanthrope. “On the other hand, most men have certain traits in common, The generality of ‘em admit that Solomon was the wisest man of his day, but con- sole themselves with the knowledge that that was long before their time. A man is very seldom made a fool of by a GINFIZz AN é ‘Any OLE PHIZ, LEMONADE AN POMM 1 | AT EACH PERFORMANCE] DE AUDIENCE HAS ALWAYS CALLED Fo DE AUTHOR To MAKE A SPEECH: DE AVTHOR Witt’ PositivELY NOT APPEER. CAVSE HES DED DE ACTORS Wont COME BEFORE DE CURTING CAUSE DEVS AFRAID, Lhe le, SHAKESPEARE IN POSSUMVILLE. The Possumville dramatic club in ‘* Merchant of Venice.” Antonio and Bassanio go to Shylock for money. HER WISDOM. ‘THERE used to be a sayin’, in the days when I wore pantalets and a sunbonnet to school, about ‘many men’ of many minds,’ ” said good old Aunt Broadhead, when the conversation at the sewing-circle had turned to the subject of husbands and the management of them, “And WG ay » Big A REM SuBURBANITE—"* Say, take this dime and move alon; if you keep playing ‘All I'want is my chicken’ ?” woman ; as a general thing, she merely develops him. Goin’ to most hus- bands for money is a good deal like goin’ to a hornet for honey. Asa rule, men are like eggs; keep ‘em in hot water a little while and they'll grow soft, but keep ‘em in too long and they harden. You can seldom drive a man to do anything ; you must lead him thereto by makin’ him think he is prompted to do so by his superior wisdom and judg- ment. He will be generous and mel- low and plastic as long as he thinks he is havin’ his own way and exhibitin’ his mental supe- tiority—and what's the odds, as long as you obtain the de- sired result ? “For the rest, you must use diplo- macy, good cookery, faith and purblind- ness, remembering always that after all he is the man that you yearned and prayed to get, and, no matter how he fails to come up to. his formerly osten- sible specifications, some other woman has been worse fool- ed than you are— INDER. and you'll get along g- How do you suppose I can break my hens of setting reasonably well.” : $ ‘TOM P. MORGAN, TS SHINY cute BN