Judge, 1901-08-03 · page 7 of 16
Judge — August 3, 1901 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge contains several short humorous pieces typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American satirical magazines: **"The Copper-Cure"** mocks the dubious health claims of Saratoga Springs, a popular resort town known for mineral springs. The joke exaggerates the copper content to absurd levels—claiming it can restore old cookware overnight—satirizing the era's tendency to make extravagant medicinal claims about spa waters. **"Buoy and Boy"** and **"Her Real Self"** are brief domestic comedies about marriage and courtship misconceptions. **"Rewrite This Joke"** puns on fire department terminology. **"An Afterthought"** and **"Fun on the Links"** are golf-related jokes about condensed milk and high-ball whiskey consumption. **"No More Frontier"** satirizes American frontier settlement anxieties—an old settler complains that the frontier is disappearing as neighbors move within a day's ride, reflecting real tensions about westward expansion's end. The cartoons mix visual gags with textual humor typical of Judge's satirical approach to contemporary American society.
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THE COPPER- CURE, HERE is a spring in Saratoga which is said to have s0 much copper in its make-up that a quart of it will put a new bottom into an old preserve-kettle in a night. It is also stated, and not by a fisherman, that this spring has to be skim- med every morning to 5 get the verdigris off 4 ithe a the surface, NANG HER REAL SELF. a AYE AAS A! a . ‘ Gustam—" When did you get acquainted with your wife BUOY AND BOY. Bustam—* About fter 1 “Dear me! not a tian at the shore yet. Let's swim oe oo after out around the buoy and back.” married her. REWRITE THIS JOKE, Lavy—" Where is the hose-department, please?" FLoor-WaLKex—" Fire, garden, or ladies’, ma'am?" A CONFESSION. THE shortstop got under the fly-ball And gauged its descent with each eye-ball, : "I learned quick All this wonderful trick From grabbing the smoky Scotch high-ball.” FUN ON THE LINKS. AN AFTERTHOUGHT. First golfer—* \sn't this an unusually small milk-weed ?” LITTLE ARCHIBALD PIPHACE (undergoing operation in teacher? chair, in an- Second golfer—* Not at all, my boy; it’s a condensed milk- guith}—" Oh! w'ot crool fate prompted me to lend me geography to Willie?” weed.” NO MORE FRONTIER. Younc Pikr—"* Say, dad, I was ridin’ on Forty-mile Creek yesterday, an’ I seen Long Jim from Sixty-mile, an’ he said there was a feller buildin’ a cabin less'n a day’s ride other side o° his ranch.” Oxp Pike—** Dod bum it! how're we goin’ to live with people a-shovin’ up ag’in us like that?” comicbooks.com