Judge, 1902-02-01 · page 4 of 17
Judge — February 1, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: **"Judge's Favorites"** features a photograph of an actress (identified as Ella Snyder) with accompanying verse about beauty versus intelligence, a common satirical theme of the era. **"Reflections of a Spinster"** offers romantic advice in verse form, satirizing both unmarried women and courtship conventions of the period. **"The Bargain Spirit"** presents a dialogue joke about auction bidding, poking fun at negotiation and haggling behavior. **"A Distinction"** depicts a brief comic exchange about a man falling down an elevator shaft—dark humor typical of the magazine's style. The remaining pieces ("Modus Operandi," "A Slight Mistake," "Well Put Up") are brief joke sequences about everyday situations, characteristic of Judge's format of short humorous sketches targeting contemporary social behaviors and gender dynamics.
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REFLECTIONS OF A SPINSTER. EEP love, like deep water, is still. If you would have a lover follow, keep run- ning. Some sentiments thrive on. disappoint- ments. The tragedy of lost love is that nothing can fill the void it leaves. To have the world virtuous, women should be homely or men blind. Women are sincere only in love. It is an absolute cure for co- quetry. If love never caught up with the object pur- sued happiness would never dic. The winning of a ove greatly desired is JUDGE'S FAVORITES. often the cause of infi- ELLA SHYDER: nite sorrow. Against the lovely background of the Beauty in her dream Only the young and The Beast looks e’en more ugly with his optics all agleam: And if he were away from her, with rapture much de- cr inexperie platonic affe eased, He'd look a bit more beautiful and not so much a Beast. old know bette! The Beast is not the background of the Beauty as she _ 2 womaniob shines, seriousness in a man ex- With all her wealth of airy curves and loveliness of lines, cept when she herself is Because a background is the thing the Beauty doesn't ve 8 fatigued by over-gayety. Who blossoms like a June rose with the graces of a reed. Toa woman there is no pleasure in life equal "Tis when we see the Beauty and the Beast in full array p v We want to kill the Beast and bear the Beauty far away: to reversing the opinion And if we cannot do this thing, to say the very least of a man she knows dis- We kind 0° sort 0’ fancy we would like to be the Beast. likes her. vapa acnew. THE BARGAIN SPIRIT. He (desperately) —" I have proposed to you fifteen times, This is the last, and, in the words of the auctioneer, ‘Going at two dollars! Going, going! Who'll make it two- fifty 2” She oluntari- ly)—" Oh, George ! if you will make it two- forty-eight’ I'l say y A DISTINCTION. Mr. O'Grady (reading paper)—"Oi see here, Bridget, thot a mon fell fifteen shtories down an cle- vator shaft.” drs. O'Grady— “Ob, the poor mon! Did he die?" Mr. O°Grady— “Naw! Oi guess he didn’t hov toime, The paper sez he wor kilt inshtantly.” MODUS OPER- ANDI. Ted—" You can believe only half what a girl says, Ned—«Sure ; but which half?” A SLIGHT MISTAKE. deur ane hall Mr. Pu (Jost in the woods) —"* Gee! if there isn't our you dont: believe parlor-rug. I'll bet he's lost, too." when she's saying it.” WELL PUT UP. “Isn't she well preserved “Yes, considering the ‘ jars’ she’s been in."* comicbooks.com