Judge, 1901-12-28 · page 6 of 49
Judge — December 28, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page combines satirical content with period advertising. The main cartoon, "Pa's Awful Ignorance," depicts a running joke about an American father's deliberate refusal to engage with knowledge. The child repeatedly asks Pa factual questions about the world (the shape of the earth, where babies come from, etc.), and Pa consistently responds "I dunno!" while reading his newspaper—suggesting willful avoidance of intellectual curiosity. The satire targets working-class masculine anti-intellectualism and paternal disengagement from education. It contrasts the child's earnest school learning with the father's studied indifference, implying this attitude perpetuates ignorance across generations. Other jokes on the page mock memory, borrowing etiquette, and Southern dialect humor (the "Colonel" whisky freeze joke). The remainder consists entirely of period advertisements: typewriters, California trains, medical treatments (electricity for rheumatism), exercise equipment, and luxury binoculars—typical Judge magazine content mixing social commentary with commercial endorsements.
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WYCKOFE, SEAMANS & BENEDICT 327 BROADWAY, New York. “What's that snail tryi “Teaching its offspring to walk.” “It's very slow work, isn't it?"— Yonkers Statesman. GOOD BYE, RHEUMATISM! Stomach Troubles, Obesity, C: Blood and Skin Diseases all Bleotriolty, Het Alr, Vibrations, Ozone jalsamic Inhalations. L, 41 West a0 Staner, Naw Yor. (Wear Waldorf-Astoria}. alifornia 3 fast trains daily FASTEST TIME ACROSS THE CONTINENT. Tun Overtanp Linrrep leaves Chicago 8.00 p. m. daily and arrives San Francisco .m.third day. Tue Paciric Ex- daily and ied day. Chicago 1.30 p.m. daily and arrives San Francisco af a, m- fourth day. Unrivaled scenery and most luxurious service via CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN, UNION PACIFIC AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAYS. All meals in dining cars. Best of every thing. lersonally conducted excursions every Tuesday and Thursday. All agents sell tickets via this route, PA'S AWFUL IGNORANCE. Most every day when I'm at school The teacher tells us things About the birds and animals And presidents and kings, And then, , when T-ast pa If what she says is $0, ads his paper right along And says? ** Ob, I dunno!” she told us that the world - pund, just like a ball, And that there's nothing down below It’s standin’ on at all. Last pa if she told the truth. He read his paper, though, And put his feet up on a chair, id: “Oh, I dunno ven's floor, and tried 1s think no angels walk Along the other side, And so that night [ast my pa, And all he said was: Oh, Don't bother me about such things, I'm busy—I dunno!" One time a bigger boy, he said The doctor didn’t bring My little baby sister in A box =no such thing t That night I ast my pa if what tt said was so, And pa he answered: “+ Oh, keep still- Confound it, T dunno!” 1 used to kind of think somehow That my pa va lot— But that was wrong, or if he did T guess that he’s forgot. Since ot started into school, Most every day or so T hear abuut a hundred things Pa doesn’t seem to know, «Kunnel, de whisky 's done froze up “Well,” replied the colonel, ** bring ice-cracker !"—Atlanta Constitution. | p the c than of trouble.— Philadelphia “A good memory is essential to success," remarked the wise guy. “Yes, it enables a man to remember what | get,” replied the simple mug.—Pilade!- phia Record, Loanedit—\Borrowit, didn't you get my lawnmower last summer 2” Borrowit “Ves, I'm the man.” Loanedit — Are'you thinking of bringing it > this winter 2” “Hadn't thought of it, I'm \¢ to lower the knives in that machine and shave the ice off my sidewalk. Indianapolis News. GREAT SPORT—PERFECT HEALTH. EXERCISE IN YOUR ROOM with Pune! Ba, (NOISELESS)© Can be mounted on Win- Requi Werght, 7% Ibs. Prive, complete, delivered, New Bag, $5.95: I not carried by dealer, onder direct of D. CRIPPE! 52 Broadway, N. Y. Write for Booklet. Room 831-C. MU MY Me 4 ae i because Santa Claus has filed the stockings FLAMMARION OPERA AND FIELD GLASSES Gold Medal Parts Exposttion 1900, Mado undor tho patronage of the Famous Astronom: ‘onstruction. perfect In and ereat lichteatheriag power Ortztoallty of deslin aod artistic eect From $5.00 ap See that each glass bears the pame “FLAMMARION” E. B. MEYROWITZ 104 E. 23 St. 650 Madison Ave. 125 W. 42 St. NEW YORK Branches: Minneapolis aed St. Paul AMONG THE INANIMATES, ‘Tue war-cLtus—" Well, I'm glad to see Miss Arrow has a beau at last."” 1709 Buy ONLY, the GENUINE 1901 Sobann Maria Farina Sternengasse = (Rue des Etoiles) 1 1 (Cologne) fe R EEUN E D faye OPWASK CONNOISSEURS cte. for 2 bottle sample box and Pamptilet, “HOW and WIEN to ase oar Ean de Cologne * to Import office, 1-3"Ann SL, New York. ONCE TRIED, ALWAYS USED. in Koln sw EET PUNGENT. DELICATE. DELIcioUs comicbooks.com