Judge, 1900-11-24 · page 7 of 16
Judge — November 24, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical vignettes typical of late 19th-century American humor: **"A Terrible State of Affairs"** mocks medical quackery—a farmer recounts meeting a street-corner doctor hawking cure-all remedies for obscure "Latin" diseases. The satire targets both the charlatan's theatrical sales pitch and gullible patients' fears of unnamed ailments. **"In Topsy-Turvy Land"** presents absurdist humor: a lady offers tramps food for cutting them up; a burglar complains of tough resistance. The title suggests inverted logic for comedic effect. **Smaller dialogues** include football players relieved season's over, a New York explorer whose rescue expedition departs before he does (mocking poor planning), and domestic scenes about gratitude and refusing suitors. The recurring theme is satirizing American pretension, medical fraud, and social anxieties of the era. The cartoons use exaggerated situations and dialect to mock both the subjects depicted and broader societal follies Judge's audience would recognize.
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malady ensconced in their insides and never know it. And, b'jing! he sold his rem- edy as fast as he could hand it out, at a dollar a bottle, to people who were actually pale with the conviction that if they didn’t git his nostrum to drive that ‘ere horrid Lat- in disease out of their sys- tems they would never be aware that they were suffer- in’ from it.” VIEWPOINTS. Cora —"The {oot -ball players must be thankful that the games are over for the season.” Merritt—" Yes, indéed. It must be a great relief for IN TOPSY-TURVY LAND. them to feel that at last they Lapy oF THE HOUSE (lo log of wood) All right; if you can get a hait-cut.” loz of rabid IN TOPSY-TURVY LAND. cut up some of those tramps I'll give you a meal.” + Tue sare—" Jimminy! but dis is de toughest burguler I wuz ever up against.” A TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS. +e THERE was a street-doctor sellin’ medicine from a waggin’ on the post-office corner while I was in town this after- noon,” said shrewd old Farmer Hornbeak upon his return from a half-day’s visit to the county seat, “that struck me as bein’ just about the slickest chap of the kind that I ever had the pleasure of listenin’ to. He de- scribed, in an awful and far- reachin’ voice, a strange .and horrid disease with a terrible Latin name as long as your arm, and thundered that hundreds, nay, thousands, of people go all their lives long with that awful Davowrer—" Why, m Lz Cae E % ‘ Ce atk Fed en ON TLE A ILE TOPE OD AOD Vee en PO FROM MA’S POINT OF VIEW. MotHER—"* Gertrude, I'm afraid you made a mistake in refusing that Mr. Jones.” WHY THANKFUL? WHEAT are we thankful for? That is a question ‘That sometimes puzzles e’en a dinner-guest : The rich are thankful for a good digestion, The poor if they have some- thing to digest. ae COMMENDABLE CAUTION. Foster—* Curious affair about that New York man that is going to start out to discover the north pole.” Felton—" How so?" Foster—" Why, he delayed starting until the relief expedi- tion was already on the way.” te Je ‘4 (1) MotHeR—" Why, the meek mariner in which he took your refusal shows he is of the stuff that husbands should be made of.” comicbooks.com