Judge, 1901-05-25 · page 5 of 16
Judge — May 25, 1901 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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**"Willie's Quiet Little Swim"** (top) is a six-panel comic strip about a boy sneaking a swim while girls aren't present. Willie undresses by a pond, only to have a farmer's dog mistake him for a vagrant and chase him up a tree—a simple slapstick joke playing on Victorian-era social embarrassment around bathing and the unexpected consequences of his private scheme. **"The Pine and the Palm"** is a whimsical poem (attributed to Heine) about a porcupine in frozen lands yearning for an Italian palm tree. They finally meet at London Zoo, where the palm briefly touches the porcupine's quills—a romantic fantasy suggesting unlikely love transcending geography and nature. **"Overheard at Lenox"** is a brief joke: at the wealthy Lenox resort, one boy asks another if his father knows he plays golf. The reply suggests golf-playing itself is a "failing" worthy of concealment—likely satirizing golf as an eccentric or pretentious leisure activity among the elite. All three pieces are lighthearted humor typical of Judge's turn-of-century content.
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WILLIE’S QUIET LITTLE SWIM (WHEN THE GIRLS WEREN'T AROUND). al pe oe 1. Litre Wittie—'t My word! Just the place 10 take a bawth.” 8. Lirtie Witiur—" If T can get those clothes off that scarecrow I can get home, at least.” 4. But he had not reckoned on the farmer's dog, who mistook him for a hobo, UP IN the frozen Northernland, where sunbeams seldom shine, Within the mighty forest deeps there grew a porcu- pine A monarch of the glen was he, With needles long as they could be. And in the hot Italian noons the palm dreamed of the ‘pine, And longed to stroke those slender quills that cased him like a vine. But when and how and where they'd meet Knew not the little palm discreet. “Something doing!” second, THE ’PINE AND THE PALM. (Sugaested by Heine) with the dog a good Far in the south, where orange-groves set free their fragrant balm, Not many leagues from Padua there dwelt a little Im. And, like so many in that land, The palm was in a maiden’s hand. OVERHEARD AT LENOX. ‘Tom—"" Does your father know that I play golf?” ALick—"" You don’t suppose I've told him your failings, do you?" 6. Treed! And it was ‘‘up to" Willie to ex- plain, Throughout the long, dark winter months the porcu pined and pined For sweet caresses from the palm whose form he had divined, He felt sometime, somewhere, somehow, That palm might stroke his quill-set brow. The years flew on, as years will fly, and then at last they met; It was within the London Zoo—the palm can feel it yet. It touched just once the q Of that false Norland porcu-pine! so fine CHARLES BATTELI Loomis,