Judge, 1901-04-13 · page 6 of 20
Judge — April 13, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine contains several brief satirical sketches typical of the era. The humor relies on wordplay and social observation rather than political commentary. **"The Tree Calf"** is a whimsical fantasy piece playing on the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" (the cow jumping over the moon), imagining a descendant that builds nests in trees. **"Useful Girl"** mocks a young woman who complains about someone yet visits her regularly—the joke being her transparent excuse about parade-watching reveals insincerity. **"Taken from the Enemy"** satirizes Anglo-American cultural tensions, with an Englishman defensively objecting to Americans mocking British humor publications. **Other sketches** cover domestic life themes: a child learning regret, a farmer killed by urban transit (contrasting city dangers with rural safety), marital dynamics around Easter bonnets, and a poet's revenge—submitting work to a magazine editor he despises. The overall tone reflects genteel, middle-class Victorian humor focused on manners, relationships, and mild social absurdities rather than hard political satire.
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THE TREE CALF, THE sportive tree calf here we see, He builds his nest up in a tree ; To this strange dwelling-place he cleaves Because he is so fond of leaves, "Twas his ancestral cow, I trow, Jumped o'er the moon, so lon ago. But he is not so great a rover, ‘Though at the last he runs to cover, camouyn watts. USEFUL GIRL. +e] F YOU dislike her, why do you visit her 2" we inquired, after the maiden had expressed her opinion of an absent one. “Oh, all the parade . TOPSYTURVY LAND. pass her home,” was the ET) Ouch !——!——'——! I can't get out of satisfactory reply. . JUDGE’ MILLIE JAMES 1 Simplicity Johnson, yo One might think you too And that would be a blunde TAKEN FROM THE ENEMY. HE Englishman had been listening to several news- paper men who were ridiculing some alleged bits of humor in a John Bull publication, and at length blurted out angrily : “You Americans have beastly manners. You are always making fun of our jokes. I’m sure I don't see anything in them to laugh SADDER AND WISER. ou sorry you, called names SHORT LIVED. after that little boy next door ?” . . * nat ‘ ; is Feeddie—"Ves, ea, Vie oni figit twiee'as oul 'as Farmer Pum (picking himself up after a cablecar has dragged him a block»—"* By that medical book was right’ that sed folks don’t live as long in the city as in the 1 thought he could.” country.” HER BONNET, (One husband's Easter soliloquy.) AREST Madge, before your mirror Vosing with a dainty grace, Smiling in supreme contentment At that bit of plumes and lace — On my life, dear, you're a picture And I find you just immense, But I cannot help reflecting ‘That you smile at my expense ! yma FEMININE SINCERITY. Ted —" He stutters so badly it took him over half an hour to propose to her.” ved —"" What did she say to him?” Ted —* Oh, this is so sudden.” AN AWFUL REVENGE. Friend (to amateur poet) —'I sce you are sending off a manu- script to the Bonton Magazine, \ thought you told me only the other day you thoroughly disliked and despised the editor of that particular magazine ?” Oi've been thinking for some toime thot thot cight-thirty train should be changed to eight Poet—"1 do. That's why I'm sending him my poem.” Bridget, if you can't serve my breakfast at eight o'clock prompt, there will have to be a change.” sorr! forty-five. comicbooks.com