Judge, 1900-11-17 · page 16 of 16
Judge — November 17, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate satirical cartoons from Judge magazine (copyright 1922). **Top cartoon ("A Training Conundrum"):** Features a boxing trainer instructing a fighter using a pun. The joke plays on "neck of land" (the Panama Isthmus, then a contemporary geopolitical focus) versus "land on the neck" (a boxing punch to the neck). It's wordplay humor about boxing training. **Bottom cartoon ("A Horticulturist"):** Shows two working-class immigrant women (indicated by dialectal speech patterns). One boasts her unemployed husband now has work as a "horticulturist" (flower cultivator). The punchline reveals he merely tends electric lights at a flower show—a humorous class commentary on working-poor men inflating their job titles to appear respectable. The ethnic stereotyping and dialect humor reflects period attitudes toward immigrant populations. Both cartoons use exaggerated facial features typical of early 20th-century caricature style.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
A TRAINING CONUNDRUM, W'ot's de difference between de isthmus uv Panama an’ a smash on de jugular?” Search me!" jest as easy! One 's a neck uv land, de other ‘s a land on de neck.” iailamiaalaiaiiai A HORTICULTURIST. Mus, DiAMONDsTINe—"' Goot-mornink, Mrs. Moloney! Is your husbandt got vork yet?” Mas, MoLonzy—" Shure, he is. He do be a hortyculchurist now.” » Mrs, DiaMonpstine—"‘A horticulturist? Vat iss it?” ; . rt Mrs. Movowey—"" Wan who cultivates lowers. Me hoosband tends the ‘lectrick-lights plant at the flower-show. comicbooks.¢om