Judge, 1902-02-01 · page 10 of 17
Judge — February 1, 1902 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple unrelated humorous cartoons and jokes typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. **Key content includes:** - **Ice-cutters in Bugville**: Anthropomorphic bugs complain that hot water ruins their lake-ice harvesting—absurdist humor with no deeper political meaning. - **Opera joke**: A man impresses a woman with romantic rhetoric about laying "the world at your feet," satirizing overwrought romantic clichés. - **Civil Service exam**: An African American applicant (stereotypically depicted) panics when asked the Earth-to-Moon distance for a mail carrier job—the joke relies on period racial stereotypes and the absurdity of irrelevant exam questions. - **Various domestic humor**: Jokes about deaf-mutes, stuttering, sleep-talking husbands, and babies—standard domestic comedy without political satire. - **Fashion/etiquette tips**: Brief advice columns on makeup application and social behavior. The page exemplifies Judge's mix of wordplay, domestic comedy, and period-appropriate (though often offensive by modern standards) ethnic humor, with minimal actual political commentary.
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Se THOSE old mound- builders were a funny lot of people,” the Wy youth remarked. A yag “In a thousand years hence,” declared the archie- » ologist, “irresponsible boys will be making similar light remarks about the extinct tunnel-diggers of New York.” UNFORTUNATE. Bramble—* Poor fel- low! He's a deat-mute, isn’t he ?" Thorne—" Yes, but that isn't the worst of it, He stutter: Bramble—« Stutrvers? How can that be 2" Thorne: sy enough. JUDGE'S FASHION HINT. : 3 Rexx He's got St. Vitus’s dance.” TS ina the tates sy lez veltke sipsie: Vel ICE-CUTTERS IN BUGVILLE. HOW THEY PLAYED THE OPERA. ANO’ OF A’ Bucs—" Gee! just when we're trying to make ice somebody g ; has to come and pour hot water all over our lake.” | Amy—* Any one would think you had the earth on your shoul- HE Is. - ders.” Fred—"Would that I had, that I might lay the world at your feet.” Will Lingtoo (reflectively)—" 1 tell you, a man has got to take a good deal on trust, in this world.” Elbo Zonte (gloomily) —" Got to? He's good and lucky if he can get it. oe NN PARTING WORDS. “itis only a quiet little What do you mean by a quiet game ?" He—Oh, one in which money does nearly all the talk- ing. “Te-teedle-eedle-um-tum! TOO MUCH FOR HIM. Civil - service examiner (very sternly to Erastus Smith, colored, who aspires to the office of mail-carrier)—" How far is it from the earth to the Erastus (in terror) “Golly, boss! ef yo’s gwine to put _me on dat route I don't want de job.” FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. Ww, - parson Primrose —"1n <a what way is it embarrassing for you to go to church with your husband 2" Mrs, Cobwigger — He has a habit of talking in his sleep.” A GOOD EXCUSE. First deaf - mute—Nou get twisted in your talk. Second deaf -mute— “That's because my fingers are crooked.” A CHIP OF THEOLD BLOCK. Mrs, Dooley—" Sure, an’ yer baby never cries atall, at all." 3 Br-r-r-r-thoomppp! Mrs. Rooney —“Noj we 4 jist blows th’ whistle an’ he s Zoom!—Bling!—Zump !—Punk! shtops to wanst.” Gotterdammerung.” comicbooks.com