Judge, 1900-12-01 · page 3 of 16
Judge — December 1, 1900 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple humor pieces rather than political cartoons. **"How He Looked At It"** (top): Shows a man with a top hat observing Casey's wife with a child—the seventeenth. The joke plays on different interpretations of the situation: Cassidy sees it as a tragedy, but Casey views it as a "continuous performance," suggesting working-class Catholic families' reputation for having many children. **"He Rung The Bell"** and other pieces are brief anecdotal jokes about domestic life and social situations. **"Proof Positive"** and **"Profound Logic"** are quick-hit joke formats typical of Judge's humor. The page reflects turn-of-the-century American satire targeting class stereotypes, family life, and everyday absurdities, rather than specific political events.
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Tet Suwon, HOW HE LOOKED AT IT. * Casey's woife boz just prisintid him with another choild—the seventeenth.” Costicax —" Poor Casey must look upon it as a thragedy.” Cassipy—" No, he says it seems to him more like a ‘continuous performance.” THE AUXILIARY, seCQuR relations must cease!" These chilling words were hissed through the clinched teeth of Lucretia Borgia. “Enough !" he muttered hoarsely. “I'll go! but tell me first—where am I to procure the bromide bottle ?” HE RUNG THE BELL, crippled for life, was in one of the lower rooms in a public school. The teacher became very much interested in the little fellow, and invited him to call at her boarding- PROOF. POSITIVE. place. ‘ Hall-boy—"* | know that bald-headed man is English.” He hobbled in just as he would at the school- Belt-boy—" How do you know ?" house, but was told that this was not polite, that he Hall-boy—* Because he always takes an umbrella when he goes for must always ring the bell. his shower bath.” So the next time, not ~*~ knowing the fy use of the electric but- ton, he took from the hall table a large hand bell. used for calling the boarders to their meals, and rang it with all his right, The sound, at this unex- pected hour, brought together the env're household, in great conster- nation, but Victor complacently re~ marked, “I didn’t forget; 1 rung the bell.” OMAR—TWENTIETH CENTURY. 1 book of verses, underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a leaf of bread, and thou Reside me singing in the wilderness ; Ah! Wilderness were paradise enow. Ab! Omar, sage, in those few lines you set ‘The sum of earthly happiness ; but yet Tf you had lived in these degenerate days T think you would have liked a cigar- ette, KSOWLEDGE comes with what EROEOUND LOGIC: : we learn; wisdom, with what More Alot a foony dat a man's brains am in his head, but his sense am in his neck ?* we unlearn, OSE Mose —"' Why, ef yo’ want to knock a man senseless yo" have to hit him in de neck.” comicbooks.com