Judge, 1901-01-12 · page 5 of 16
Judge — January 12, 1901 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical cartoons typical of late 19th-century American humor. **"Tank Tommie's New Outfit"** cartoons mock working-class immigrants, particularly those with Irish accents (indicated by dialect spelling like "mattah" and "dese"). The humor relies on the period's popular racist trope comparing non-white people or "lower classes" to apes, referencing Darwin's evolutionary theory. Tommie obtains fancy clothes but remains socially inferior—the satire targets both class pretension and immigrants aping their "betters." **"Postponed"** is a brief romantic joke about a couple delayed from stargazing due to work obligations. **"Deacon Elderberry"** (bottom) appears to be a serialized narrative—this issue shows the deacon's son inviting his cousin Dorothy for a river outing, likely setting up romantic or comedic complications in subsequent installments. The cartoons reflect Judge's characteristic mockery of immigrants, class anxieties, and courtship conventions of the Gilded Age.
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HOW THINK TANK TOMMIE GOT A NEW OUTFIT. HOW THINK TANK TOMMIE GOT A NEW OUTFIT. AT THE ZOO. THEY passed the cage a-foot, awheel, In hats a-flower, a-feather ; In waists of every spot and stripe, And stripe and spot together; In caps and shirts diversified With crew and foot-ball let- ter; In stockings plaided & la golf And every shade of sweater. The ape looked down with casual, Contemplative attendance. “And Darwin really thought,” Cito.ty Peerrysoy—" What's the mattah, me man?” ne’said, 8. —Oh, I shall die if I don’t hurry! Oh, oft!” Tunx Tank Tomaie—* Oh, Prefesser Mikerobe ast me “' That these were our de- ter take dese cholera-germs to his house, an’ dey just got out scendants !" an’ lit on yer clothes.” CATHARINE YOUNG GLEN. POSTPONED. . syou and Mr. Smith were out very late, Mildred,” said Mrs. Ricketts, severely, to her daughter, “ Well, mamma, we wish- ed to see the star-shower.” “ Why, the shower of stars was last week.” “T know that; but Mr. Smith had to work that night and couldn't come.” OOD grammar should be as indispensable to a 4, Tyank Tank Tomue—"'I kinder trought dese duds wud 2, CHouty Pretrynoy—" Gwacious me! I shall catch i, man as clean linen, look well on me.” sy auoas courany ov new vons DEACON ELDERBERRY AND HIS TIMES.—No. 8. ‘The deacon’s son Miles had asked his cousin Dorothy to take a quiet row on the river. comicbooks.com