Judge, 1901-09-07 · page 9 of 20
Judge — September 7, 1901 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short satirical pieces mocking various social situations of the era: **"The Sex's Way"** jokes about a woman's vanity—she delays a carriage ride obsessing over whether her hat sits straight after crossing a bridge. **"Paying the Piper"** is a one-liner about automobile repair costs, suggesting drivers spend more money fixing damage from accidents than on maintenance. **"An Exasperating Decease"** satirizes a physician-preacher's funeral eulogy revealing his true priorities: he mourns losing an interesting medical case study more than the deceased person. The satire targets self-interested professionals who view human suffering as professional opportunity. **"Crushed Again"** presents a railway drummer (traveling salesman) being rejected when asking if a seat is taken—a common rejection scenario. **"A Green-Goods Game"** puns on "grass-widow" (a woman separated from her husband) and "green goods" (counterfeit money), suggesting the marriage was a swindle. The humor relies on wordplay about deception. The cartoons use exaggerated pen-and-ink illustrations typical of Judge's style.
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THE SEX’S WAY. “m not on time, but do not frown, For truly that would not be fair, Because, in coming up to town, I crossed a bridge and drove a mare. The bridge's edge, with me in tow, The critter gained ; then made me wait While gazing in the depths below To see was her new hat on straight. CLARA MARSHALL PAYING THE PIPER. Ted—* Does your auto cost you much for repairs?” . Ned—" No; the cost is for repairs to ‘RUDYEL OF THE Buizzaxp Bitt—* Watch me give that chink a playful jerk.— the things you run into.’ STREET. / I picked it u AN EXASPERATING Pita the treet one day, DECEASE. Torn in two HE. physician who had . Se 9 j / ‘And half thrown away. attended the deceased as | ‘ { Who is the lady? was alsoa lay preacher, { Sey = P ‘Who fs she abs oss lavited"to . a Ss That uninvited an a 4 Came to me? make a few remarks at g ei URS , the funeral. - A widow, I ues, LOS S » From the photograph, He rose and said: 7 Because she has lost “ My friends, it is with rey: i Her other half. particularly poignant Z : ALLA J LAMYTG. feelings of sorrow and regret that I say the CRUSHED AGAIN. Jas words aes this “7 a * Drummer (in trait ee ee Ny aarat 5 “Ts this seat engaged?” i off in wl “d anit ist ol 2. Coy country maid—" No, the most interesting _ teres, saute? but Tam.” and odd disease it has What have I got—the stone giant ever been my good fortune to treat. With you, who ¥ mourn him simply as a man and who know not medi- “\ Leta | cine, it will be useless for me to enter into pathological particulars: SS Ll : ‘ § S| tAunony |S, but in a general way I must say that this young friend of ours, if he ee had lived six months longer, would have been a subject for discus- a sion for doctors the world over, so strange and, I may say, so de- lightfully quaint, was his ailment. “Why is it, my friends—why is it that he was thus cut off just at the point where his symptoms baffled science? The baffled sci- entist of to-day is the scientific discoverer of to-morrow—and he was taken away! “Think of it, my friends! I might have become famous if he had lived yet a little longer. Why did this interesting young man die while thou- sands of young men and: women with nothing out of the ordinary the matter with them get well? “Just as a sculptor feels whose statue is over- turned and broken while he is putting the finishing touches toit, so I felt when I could no longer experi- ment with this young man. “T only knew him as a patient, but I sorrow with you who loved Asm, for I loved his disease. It was a beautiful case, and whatever cases the future may have in store for me, however perplexing they may be, still I will always feel that in losing this young man I lost one of the most important and lovely and inscrutable dis- eases that it was ever my good fortune to try to cope A GREEN-GOODS GAME. with, and I'm sorry I lost “Isn't it a shame Jack married the grass-widow 7” COUNTER IRRITANT. it.” cuamixs saree Looms. “Indeed ‘tis! Regular green-goods swindle.” comicbooks.com