Judge, 1901-11-02 · page 5 of 16
Judge — November 2, 1901 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humor pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: **"A Tail of Whoa!"** (top): A cowboy joke about horse tail-docking. Brown defends his horse's magnificent tail as useful for fly-swatting, satirizing the fashionable practice of docking horses' tails for style—cruel treatment presented as absurd vanity. **"A Halloween Wooing"** (middle-left): A sentimental romantic poem illustrated with a young couple meeting by moonlight on Halloween, reflecting period interest in supernatural courtship rituals. **"The Rhode Island Way"** (middle): A regional humor piece joking about Rhode Island's perpetually damp climate making it impossible to light matches normally—implying residents must keep candles burning all day. **"Getting Down to Facts"** (right): A brief comic dialogue where "Merritt" and "Cora" debate a woman's contradictory statements about love, the humor resting on stereotypes about female inconsistency. The cartoons use simple pen-and-ink illustrations to accompany lighthearted domestic, romantic, and regional humor typical of the era's satirical magazines.
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1. Brown—"' Style be hanged, man! WHEN tiptoe to the garden-well ‘The new moon o'er the waters dark On Halloween she went, A bow of silver bent. T heard her say above the brink These words of mystery : + New moon, true moon, tell me, pray, Ww yy husband is to be." A TAIL OF WHOA! A HALLOWEEN WOOING. ‘Then lightly to her side T Across the withered grass. Our faces in the water shor As in a looking: She looked so sweet, in scarlet cloak And furry hood arrayed, I knew T couldn't breathe my vows Unto a fairer maid, ass. THE RHODEISLAND WAY. Rhode-Islander-—" The air is so moist down here that I can't light matches on sand-pape Visiter—* Then how do you light them ?” Rhode-Islander—"\ have to keep them in,” don't.” pacandle burning all day to light — half what a girl says Merritt—« But in this 2, —s-s-s-swish!" It's cruel to dock a horse. See what a magnificent tail my horse has! If the flies annoy him he can—- GETTING DOWN TO FACTS. Merritt —" First you say you love me and then you say you Cora—* Well, don't you know you can't believe more than one- A whispered word, a lingering kiss On lips of dewy red. “Twas thus T won her little hand And soft consent to wed. But still I think—for such, you know, Are the ways of maidens fair. 1 she went forth that Halle She knew that I was there. MINNA DEVIN. veen my dear, which half shall I believe ?" seis We ot wy comicbooks.com