Judge, 1901-02-16 · page 10 of 16
Judge — February 16, 1901 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated comic vignettes satirizing domestic life and social behaviors: **"Too Bad"** mocks a mother's practicality—her concern isn't her daughter's anger at throwing a teacup, but rather the lack of "china glue" to repair it. **"The Hospitality of Sidney"** depicts a boy who climbs a tree to avoid punishment after hitting his brother. His mother waits below with a switch, but when she finally beats the figure she assumes is Sidney in the dark, it's actually Sidney's guest, Tommy Fisher, whom Sidney had invited for a sleepover. The joke satirizes both Sidney's cunning and his mother's assumption. **"In a Quandary"** shows confusion over fashion—a woman can't decide between two neckties, suggesting either gender ambiguity or satirizing indecisiveness about trivial matters. **"Another Bird"** is a visual pun—a milliner's bonnet is compared unfavorably to a pelican because of its large "bill" (beak/cost). Mr. Taddells makes a weak joke about the bonnet's expense. The page emphasizes humor through wordplay, domestic mishaps, and visual gags typical of early-20th-century American satirical magazines.
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TOO BAD. Dauauter (sobbing)—"* I got m-mad at Jack and threw a t-tea-cup at his h-head.”” Motiter—" You poor child ! and I'll wager you haven't a bottle of china glue in the house.” THE HOSPITALITY OF SIDNEY. AF ER Sidney hit his little brother on the head with the heavy nozzle of the hose, his mother promised him a thrashing as soon as he should come down from the tree. Sidney called out that under these circumstances he would stay where he was all night. It seem- ed as if he meant to keep his word, Darkness fell, and still he remained aloft. Supper time came and still no Sidney app ed. His mother, switch in hand, bided her time. Sidney being her fourth son, she thought that she understood boys. At ten o'clock she stole to his room. It was dark, but stretching out her hand to the bed, she felt the warm young body she expected. Without a second’s waste of time, she grabbed the boy, proceedi fervently to follow the prov- **T am, old chappie. erb’s veiled suggestion about oe a lavender ascot.” ‘The caddy substitutes an egg for a golf-ball — IN A QUANDARY. * Wrot's de matter, Roxie? You look perplexed.” T can't decide wedder ter wear a pink four-in-hand to-day or at you ¢ ) ig, the rod. As the switch whistled up and we down through the air, a series of unhappy ae yells made the night hideous ; but Sidney's determined mother continued her exertions until she was exhausted, ‘Then it was that she heard the tearful words of the limp boy whose collar she still held. “ S-Sidney invited me to sleep with him,” blubbered Tommy Fisher, “ and this is the way you treat me.” ANOTHER BIRD. sD) ON’T you think D x duck ofa bonnet 7° said Mrs. Taddells to her hus- band, whom she had dragged to a milliner’s shop. “What's the price?” asked Mr. ‘Taddells, ~ Only fifty dollar * No, it's not a duck of a bonnet; it’s a pelican.” “ Why do you say that?” A pelican has a bigger bill than a duck. -—and Peter Jackson makes the liveliest drive of the season, comicbooks.com