Judge, 1900-07-21 · page 7 of 18
Judge — July 21, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This 1900 page contains multiple unrelated satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's format: **"The Reason"** mocks urban visitors who overstay at farms—eating provisions, stealing souvenirs (seashells), and leaving without paying. Farmer Summerboard's dialect humor targets both the entitled city guest and rural resentment of such freeloaders. **Other brief jokes** include: apartment-hunting etiquette, a man's determination (he elopes alone after his girlfriend's father catches him), baseball metaphors for romantic failure, and a doctor's boast about never losing patients. **"Celebrating the Day"** uses Yiddish-inflected dialect to satirize Jewish shopkeepers' casual dishonesty—lying about merchandise quality, compounded by the father's encouragement. **"The Only Mystery"** references London youth wearing bracelets (appears to reference a contemporary fashion trend) while implying criminality—the joke being these young men should be arrested for this suspicious behavior. The page reflects 1900s casual ethnic stereotyping common to Judge's humor.
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THE REASON. ae HAT made the WwW city feller that was puttin’ up there leave your farm?” in- quired Farmer Pry. “One reason was b’cuz his puttin’ up was allina visitory—if such aterm is grammatical —or live-on-us-and- not-pay-a-cent-atory, instead of financial, sense,” replied honest Farmer Summerboard. “He also ett up all of the early lettuce, the Newest onions, the freshest eggs, the most pert and forward spin- Copyright, r900, by Judge Company. ach, and so forth; and when he took his de- parture he also took and filled his grip-sack with the sea- shells off'n the what-not that Uncle Seth Pine brought Mrs. RENTHUNTER—** Do you allow children in these flats?” fiom the Friendly islands the last voyage before he was Janiton—" Nobodys bet ae own, tan - DID HIS PART. “¢ CHUMPLEY is a fellow of strong determination. Anything he begins he carries through.” “Does, eh?” “Yes, indeed. Even when he had planned to elope with Maud Blunders and her father discovered the plot he did not hesitate—he eloped alone.” ALL IN THE GAME. THE man who takes a ball too much And goes upon a bat Is very sure to lose his base And knock his home-run flat, SHE HAD TO GET WELL. Mrs. Nurvus—"Do you think I'm going to die?” Dr. Young—" Dear me! 1 hope not. I haven't lost a pa- CELEBRATING THE DAY. tient yet, and to save my life Eckstein, jx.—'' Fader, I lied to dot feller aboud dot coat, vest und pants I solt him. Dot's t'ree lies dis morning.” don't believe I could make out a Eckstein, Sk.—"* Call him pack und tell him dese oxpenders haf gold buckles und make it Jew lie der fourth.” certificate.” lost at sea. I sort of told him PTR MrT that if he didn’t put up he! tila { ih couldn't put up—the first in my " | i hand and the second at our i} i I kinder s'pose, all things con- sidered, that the biggest and most prominent reason why he left the farm was that he couldn't take it with him.” house. And so he went away. | 0 ( i \ Wa THE ONLY MYSTERY. FRAYED FAGIN (reading}—"* Most all de young bloods in London is wearin’ bracelets.” Copyricht, 1900 by Judge Company. Weary Witite—* Well, it's a mystery to me dey hain't all bin arrested long before dis.” comicbooks.com