Judge, 1902-01-25 · page 10 of 16
Judge — January 25, 1902 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the "hyphen habit"—the repetitive, stammering speech pattern of a man obsessed with recounting dramatic stories. The main cartoon ridicules someone who compulsively doubles words while narrating incidents like Captain Tilley's court-martial at Pago-Pago and General Uribe-Uribe's military exploits in South America. The joke is that his annoying speech mannerism (the repeated hyphens representing stuttering) makes him unbearable company; a friend eventually removes him, explaining he's gone "bug-house" from reading about foreign affairs. The secondary cartoons are unrelated jokes: one about a woman's silent response to a "silence is golden" motto (she stops answering her son's requests), and another mocking Chicago society women for allegedly changing husbands as casually as clothes between theatrical acts. The satire targets both affected speech patterns and American obsession with foreign news during the early 1900s.
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HAD THE HYPHEN HABIT. “I am greatly-greatly interested in the trouble-trouble they have been having-having at Pago-Pago,” said the man with the peculiar glitter in his eyes. “You doubtless remem- ber-remember that they had Captain Tilley-Tilley up be- fore a court of inquiry-inquiry to determine whether he had been drunk- drunk, Well, you see, the natives-natives down there have a strange method- method of determ- ining a man's so- briety-sobriety. They do it by his talking-talking: But the court of inquiry- dan inquiry decided that hen ir vf Nell Tilley-Tilley was not me Aut! Meee guilty-guilty, and it cost our government twenty-five thousand dollars-dollars The other man began to edge slowly away, when the man’s eyes glittered again, and he said, “And there is General Uribe-Uribe, down in South America- America. Did you read about him in the papers-papers ?- Why, he simply chased the enemy-enemy into the tall timber-timber and made them shin up the foliage-foliage. I tell you, it is inspiring- inspiring to read of such a hero-hero. I wish we had a few like him in our land-land. His strong point-point is that his enemy-enemy does not know by a mere glance- HOW IT WORKED. Hosart—‘' | sent your mother a wall-motto, ‘Silence is golden.’”” Mrs. Hosart—" And what did she think of it?”* é a Hosart—* Awful! Next time I wrote and asked her for a loan she didn’t answer.’ glance at him whether-whether he is coming- coming or going-going, and when they have tried to figure-figure it out he has come- come and gone- gone, and the enemy is swatted-swatted. Just the other even- ing-evening he went out on the plain. plain with.about forty-forty soldiers and met Colonel- Colonel "—— But at the pointa square-jawed man came around the corner and took the glittery-eyed man by the arm and said, "Come on back, Jim.” Turning to the other man, he explained, “ He went bug-house reading Dun rue poses aes about the affairs in South SKIPPED OUT. America and Samoa, and Mrs. Buo—"'No, I can't see why people —_‘I_ guess he’s equipped with buy fire-wood for two dollars acord a portable echo.” when matches are so cheap.”* wb. wesorr. NOT THE TRUE CHICAGO LIFE. “ That play isn’t true to life.” “ Why not ?” “The’heroine is a Chicago woman and although three months are supposed to elapse between the first and second acts, she has the same husband in both acts.” . ytnen 0 STAN be O comicbooks.com