Judge, 1900-10-13 · page 15 of 16
Judge — October 13, 1900 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of Judge magazine's revenue model. The main cartoon depicts "Seeing Their Finish"—a satirical joke about the Boxer Rebellion (the Pekin/China reference dates this to 1900-1901). **The Cartoon's Joke:** Farmer Green misunderstands military terminology: when told "England has sent ten regiments of lancers to Pekin," he thinks "lancers" are doctors, not cavalry soldiers. Mrs. Green responds in relief that such medical expertise should suffice to "kill the hull of China"—a darkly comic comment on Western imperial assumptions about their military superiority and casualness toward Chinese casualties. **The Satire:** The joke mocks rural American ignorance while simultaneously satirizing Western imperialist attitudes—the casualness with which Americans discuss destroying an entire nation. The farmer's malapropism becomes a vehicle for critiquing both American provincialism and imperial arrogance. The remainder consists of period advertisements for garters, brandy, whisky, patent collars, and patent medicines—typical commercial content filling the magazine.
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