Judge, 1901-04-06 · page 16 of 16
Judge — April 6, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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These two cartoons satirize the Klondike Gold Rush era (late 1890s-early 1900s). **Top panel ("To Be Expected"):** A husband and wife's domestic quarrel uses dialect humor. The husband, once romantic ("apple of your eye"), now complains he's been getting "apple sass" (nagging) since marriage—a common joke about wives becoming shrewish. **Bottom panel ("In the Klondike"):** A prospector returning from Yukon gold mines boasts extravagantly to Mrs. Tinstrike. When asked to shovel a path to the barn, he claims he'll wire "friend Depew" (likely Chauncey Depew, a wealthy railroad magnate) to send steam engines and a rotary snow plow—absurdly overblown for a simple task. The satire mocks nouveau-riche prospectors' pretensions and exaggerated wealth claims after striking it rich in the goldfields, contrasting their actual humble circumstances with their inflated self-importance.
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TO BE EXPECTED. h! You lazy trooper! You used to say I was de apple of your eye !”” ; MasWasnunegones* You ‘wuz, woman! ‘You wuz, Aa’ I've besa gettin’ ‘apple sa2a" ever since I married you! COPYRIGHT 1901 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. ‘Sackert & Wihelms Litho & Pit Co.Kew York. - IN THE KLONDIKE. Mas. TenstRike—" You say you're right frum the mines. Well, I'should like a path shoveled from here out to the bam! Do you think you could manage it?” Gotpiz Diccins—“ Dead easy, mum, Soon as I strike East, I'll wire me friend Depew to send on a couple of steam engines and a totary snow plow at wunst !"" comicbooks.com