Judge, 1901-12-28 · page 24 of 49
Judge — December 28, 1901 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century American satire. **"In the Park"** is a brief joke playing on marital tensions: a man sneaking suspiciously through park paths is actually just self-conscious about wearing an ugly Christmas necktie his wife gave him—implying wives give tasteless gifts their husbands must awkwardly wear. **"Perfidious Man"** is a melodramatic parody mocking romantic villain tropes. A rejected suitor blackmails a woman by threatening to reveal an embarrassing childhood photograph showing her as a chubby toddler. The exaggerated severity—she surrenders to his demands over a photo of infant obesity—satirizes overwrought Victorian romance fiction and theatrical villainy. **"The Hypnotist and the Savages"** (right panel) shows sequential illustrations likely depicting a hypnotist attempting to control "savages" who instead turn the tables on him—a satirical commentary on colonialism and racial attitudes, mocking the era's pseudoscientific racism and Western presumptions of superiority over non-Western peoples.
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STan hws, IN THE PARK. Sapie—' That man’s actions are suspicious. See how he siinks along the obscure walks, as if trying to avoid observation.”” Jack—" That's nothing. He's probably got on a necktie his wife bought him for Christmas.”* PERFIDIOUS MAN. se] ISTEN, Hortense Honeycut !" he hissed in accents tremulous with warning. ‘* Listen! You will do well to recall your rejection of me.’ “Ha, ha!" laughed the artless girl.“ What could you do, Bertrand Bales 2” “What could Ido? [have the only existing copy of the photograph your proud parents had taken of you at the age of two years, showing how fat you had grown on pumpkin-food.” With a wild shrick the thoroughly cowed girl fell into his arms and promised ‘to be his if he would return the photograph to her. THE HYPNOTIST AND THE SAVAGES: OR, HOW THE TABLES WERE TURNED.