Judge, 1901-01-05 · page 6 of 16
Judge — January 5, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple satirical sketches typical of *Judge* magazine's humor. **"The Waggish Boy" (main fable):** A pompous man with side-whiskers poses a riddle to a clever boy, who responds by admitting he's "something of a wag himself"—a self-aware joke about pranking. The moral mocks pretension: you can't judge someone by appearances. **Other sketches on the page:** - "Overheard in the Hall": A pun about melancholy door-knobs in doors - "Setting the Date": A bride-to-be's vanity joke about waiting for her fiancé's mustache - "Too Much": A widow's sardonic quip about sacrificing her life for single status - "A Startling Transformation": An ethnic humor sketch with a Yiddish-accented character ("Inisher" likely mocking Irish stereotypes) The page exemplifies *Judge's* mix of gentle social satire, wordplay, and period-typical ethnic stereotyping that modern readers would find dated or offensive.
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THE WAGGISH BOY. A FABLE. NCE upon a time there was a man who was cursed with side- 4 whiskers and the reprehensible habit of springing conundrums on his unsuspecting fellow- mortals. One day, when he was feeling in a par- ticularly conundrumical mood, he met a small boy who was modestly arrayed ina bulging brow very like unto that which is indigenous to the back of the average snapping-turtle, and, incidentally, some other rai- ment not now necessary to describe, and to the lad he propounded this iy question : ally “Ten years ago a certain man by \ {ll the uncomm name of Frickleby lost his reason by being struck on the apex of his head by a brick which fell from the top of a six-story building, Re- cently the X-ray disclosed a particle of OVERHEARD IN THE: HALL. bone pressing down on his brain, and ° bus-DiARS- @ Mr. Canz—" Why is it you door-knobs always look so When the pressure was removed by a melancholy?” surgical operation the man entirely re- Mr. Doon Kxov—"Oh, because we are in doors so covered his reason. His first words yp, RITTT* NARI; Tm #0 glad you came, upon regaining his senses were, “Aw, way.” 7, come, now, Maria! You oughtn’t to treat me this way before com- pany.’ Pray tell me, my good boy, was he a married or a sin- gle man?” “Alas!” replied the lad, just like that, “I cannot tell you. I have never had the pleasure of acquaintance with the particu- lar Mr. Frickleby of whom you speak; and, besides that, I am forced to confess that I am some- thing of a wag myself.” Moral—From this we should learn that you cannot tell by the looks of a toad how far he will jump, and no one ever knows when a boy is loaded. TOM F. MORGAN. TOO MUCH. Mrs, Wedlock—"1 would give my whole life to be single.” SETTING THE DATE. Atiss Cutting—" How gen- ste" How soon will de weddin' cone off?" crous, dear, to be willing to give Jest as soon as his mpigtactte comes on.” so much!" dB —¢ o33 ~ 2 HAC im A STARTLING TRANSFORMATION. Litre Izzy—"* Mit mine baint-box I vill maigk a circle und a line und i change fader — —into an Inisher ! comicbooks.com