Judge, 1900-09-22 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page satirizes theatrical performance and social pretense through two cartoons. **Top cartoon** ("Busted!"): Depicts a dramatic club returning from "Possum ville" (4½ miles away). The crude, chaotic scene mocks amateur theatrical productions—suggesting the group's attempted "disastrous tour" failed spectacularly. The reference to "dead-heads" (non-paying audience members) and "stage business" ridicules both the performers' incompetence and their pretensions. **Bottom cartoon** ("A Happy Thought"): Shows domestic discord, with dialogue about a rooster's paternity. Mrs. Corrigan's quip—that the rooster "will never let the mothering go near the chickens"—uses animal behavior as metaphor for human marital conflict and jealousy. Both pieces mock affectation and expose uncomfortable social realities beneath genteel appearances.
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BUSTED! (The Possumvitle dramatic club returning home after a disastrous tour of the country.) Henry VIII. (fo Romeo)—"' Say, Rome, it’s all right ter git de applause ob a house full ob dead-heads, but dis part ob de stage business ain't what she's cracked up ter be.” A SIGN THAT FAILED. ITTLE WILLIE saw a robin— Now wasn’t it absurd? Because that robin's breast was red He thought ‘twas a hot bird. ae DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. + + | T SEEMS kinder funny,” musingly said the Ko- hack philosopher, “ how differently a person will appear to different people. F'rinstance, there is I think she is a better-lookin’ and smarter-appearin’ girl than the average run of ‘em, b’cuz I flatter myself she takes after my side of the family; her lover imagines she is a beautiful creature with a face like a Madonner and a form like a sylph, or peri, or something of the kind, b’cuz he happens to be engaged to her; her younger sister, who has had to wear her altered-over clothes for several years, says she looks like a flyin'-machine; and her brother don’t know she has got any looks at all, simply b’cuz he's a boy who hasn't yet ad- vanced from the figger-4-trap and hidin’-go-whoop age to the takin'-notice age. I s'pose, in reality, she is just a common, ordinary, bright-faced young girl, with a few freckles on her nose; but I'll swan if any of us can see her just that way.” Ag Tse ie oT A HAPPY THOUGHT. Oi wish. begorra, thot Oi hod bin born a roosther !" Mrs. Cos * Whoy ?” Mr. Costican —* Whoy, the owld hin will nivir let the roosther go near the chickens. comicbooks.com