Judge, 1901-05-18 · page 5 of 16
Judge — May 18, 1901 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on American social and political life, typical of Judge magazine's editorial voice. The main pieces include: **"Notes Along the Way"**: Brief observations mocking summer resort advertising hyperbole, the cynicism of marrying for money, and clergy caught between incompatible congregation expectations. **"Equivocal"**: A poet asks an editor's opinion; the editor's backhanded compliment ("as good as they make 'em") satirizes insincere literary criticism. **"How It Happened"** and **"Bunco, B'Gosh!"**: Dialect humor featuring working-class characters, common in period humor but reflecting dated ethnic stereotyping. **"The Silly Kid Glove"**: Mocks the pretentiousness of protecting expensive tanned kid gloves from sun damage—frivolous upper-class vanity. The page's recurring theme: hypocrisy in American institutions (clergy, marriage, business, journalism) and class-based social absurdities. The cartoons use exaggeration and irony to critique both corporate self-interest and arbitrary social conventions.
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NOTES ALONG THE WAY. NEW edition of a dic- tionary announces eighteen thousand ad- ditional words, and al- ready the adjectives have been engaged by the men who write sum- mer-resort circulars. There is no place like home, and the best thing about an excur- sion-ticket is the return coupon. Men who marry for money can usually get more poetry in their love-letters than those who marry for affection. r EQUIVOCAL. Having exhausted Porricus—"* Pray tell me candidly what you think of me as a poet?” Why, I think you'te as good as they make “em.” vice in their news col- Epiror— their business before they con- sult their wives, If a preacher is eloquent he doesn’t suit one-half the con- gregation, and if he is dull he doesn’t suit the other half; and between the two he gets six hun- dred dollars a year and raises a family of ten children. The merchant who per- suades his clerks that the way to get up in the world is todo willing service and work over- time can usually afford to knock off at two o'clock in the after- noon and go driving for his health. SILAS Jonas, A FABLE. AID the old Oak Tree to the Noisy Dog: ** Be still; it will do yeu good.” And the Noisy Dog replied: **If 1 Ss 2 A oe had OH ores A bark like yours I would.” —- ILLIAM J. LAMPTON, HOW IT HAPPENED. Grartin' Georcr —"' Ver wouldn't rink dat de first time dat woman seed me she rushed up an’ trew her arms umns, it is perfectly plain why the yellow jour- nals preach virtue on their editorial pages. When corporations claim that they are working for the public good it can generally be accepted that they are working the public good. One objection to the Philippines is that the golf-grounds over there scem to be a little too damp for all-the-year- round playing. The same patriots who advise young men to keep out of politics be- cause it doesn’t pay complain that there are too many rich men holding office. The hus- bands who do not want women. to vote because they cannot comprehend public questions BUNCO, B'GOSH ! will decline to THE SILLY KID GLOVE, FARMER FIELDMOUSE, (just returning from city visit)— “Mandy. it's just gecide anyth Whenever the kid glove goes out in the sun it carries terrible! Why, there isn't a single mouse in the city that doesn't steal for a anything an umbrella over it, just as though tanned kid gloves were living.” of importance in not as much the proper thing as untanned ones. CUS DIRK