Judge, 1900-10-13 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 13, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: 1. **"Last Rehearsal of the Posumville Dramatic Club"** (top): A chaotic theater scene mocking amateur theatrical productions, with performers butchering Shakespeare's lines and creating mayhem onstage. 2. **"The Shirtwaist Man"** (center): Satirizes a fashion-conscious man obsessed with his shirtwaist (a type of garment). The verse ridicules his vanity and suggests he's adopted "Chinese fashion" with the shirtwaist as his defining characteristic—mocking both fashion obsession and cultural appropriation. 3. **"Why He Traveled"** (bottom): A dialogue between a Suburbanite and New-Yorker about why someone left Locust-hursts for the city, attributing it to desire for luxuries and necessities rather than mere rural satisfaction. The page satirizes contemporary vanity, theater culture, and urban-rural differences.
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Notice ACKTOR 5 ARt REQUESTED To STUDY THEIR PARTS Paar) | So tHey WILL KNow THEIR Fadi) |I-INES - there has BIN Too MUCH OF THIS BISNESS OF PUTTING IN YOUR OWN LINES INSTEAD oF SHAKE SPEARLS BAGNAGER ee med > LAST REHEARSAL OF THE POSSUMVILLE DRAMATIC CLUB (Enter Shakespeare's ghost.) Guost—" Break away, there! and if you little coons don’t quit murdering my plays I'll turn a graveyard loose and scare you all to death,” THE SHIRTWAIST MAN. Perhaps he's corpulent about the region of the hip, if, THE shirewatst man! Oh, the shirtwalst mao And his upper garment calls to mind a striped pillow-slip ies fakloucl tioaastautel ol the vesy ce Drawn tightly round a barrel very difficult to span ; aaa But what's the odds so long as he's a shirtwaist man? Just mention a poetic theme of interest, if you can, ‘ . os ‘That has reaped us such a harvest as the shirt g Sappore eon table d'bbteziand waist map. (As our English cousins have it) his exit 's sure and swift ; Has he not his compensation for the odium of the ban In the fact that he’s a hero—is the shirt- waist man? Though his contour ‘s inartistic and he's baggy at the back, In a way that is suggestive of a woman's dressing-sacqu Though the wrinkles on his bosom would remind you of a fan He needn't care, because he is a shirt- [ff ¢ ss On; the sititwile ean? LON) ate waist man, : x Aecerierer shirtwaist man! If he's slender through the shoulders and , (Soft * 4" because I want to rhyme is thnks sori cave lav —_, $3 him here with Prince Tuan) And exaggerate his ‘* wing-bones,” Has caught the Chinese fashion from because he ti'ss tba : this leader of his clan, The misfit doesn’t matter if he’s only Though Ae wears the lower hem con- spick and span, 2 | cealed—the shirtwaist man, For he's the idol of the hour the shirt- : a a waist man. Rereree —"* Guess this finishes our game—there goes our ball in the soup.” Tretattinentn, WHY HE TRAVELED. URBANITE —"* Why, sit; we have everything right here in Lonesomeburst that heart could desire or fancy dictate.” ew-YORKER—'‘And still you come to New York twice a week !” Supurvanrre —* Well, yes; but only to buy luxuries and necessities.” comicbooks.com