Judge, 1902-02-08 · page 12 of 20
Judge — February 8, 1902 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page features humorous rural/small-town commentary and illustrated jokes typical of Judge magazine's satirical approach. **Main Content:** The lead piece is a letter from a disgusted reader complaining that newspapers give extensive medical coverage to a sick monkey in a New York park while ignoring sick poor humans. The satire critiques misplaced public sympathy—society mourns an exotic animal but ignores suffering citizens. **Supporting Sketches:** - "Always There" jokes about a man permanently stationed at a hotel - Hotel restaurant humor about being in a hurry - Kennel Club chat mocking a buyer haggling over a tiny dog's price - Golf Club banter about crude language - "Happy Recollections": a prison inmate explains he's in jail for beating his mother-in-law - "Consolation": Irish widow and friend agree her dead husband's most sensible act was dying The humor relies on working-class dialect, domestic violence jokes (considered acceptable then), and social commentary on class disparities—all typical of early 20th-century American satire.
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Mr. Pennick ts disgusted. Davis Junction, O. Editer Jupc: Isee by a peic in the Weakly Trybune that a munky there in the N. Y. park is sic & haint ex- pected to liv, This peic tells all bout its cumplaint, what the docter says, wher it feels wust & how sory evrybody is. Ifthe animul dies i spose the city will putt the flags down haf way, close the post offic & leedin stores & git up a big funerul percession. Not that i haint sory miself fer a sic animul, but i can’t git it y.OUR Country ConREsPONDENT i Bis pen th RaRd are ailin who dont get no com- fortin wurds sed bout them, & haint the muny to git docters to cure them. Nobody peers to giv a tinkers darn whether they git well or go to the cemetarry. This wurld haint run rite an the humin race haint treated as it orto be, when a munky frum fur- rin lands that likes not dont wunt to liv in Ameriky ennyway, has a scinetifick medicul feller to docter him, gits bokays thet he cant pree- ciate & when hes ded & burid gits a better notic in the paper & “ Has a scinetifick medicul feller to docter him."” thru my hed why they’s so mutch feelin shown & so mutch talk in More nex time. the papers bout a munky when they’s so meny humin beins thet day mornin with a lode of turnips. Dave Elmer is buildin a new hen-coop. Dave is 1 of our most enterprizin citzens, likes not a bigger tumstone than most of us humin beins. Hank Peasly drov into town last Tues- HIRAM PENNICK. Dave Elmer. poi bee ALWAYS THERE. AT THE KENNEL CLUB. bee 66\VHAT is your most con- * S¢PIFTY dollars for such a Sos spicuous landmark ?" little dog!” exclaimed we asked of our country cousin. the possible buyer. It doesn’t dea “Well,” he replied, “1 weigh over four pounds.” ine reckon ol’ Jim Peters is. He's “know, mister,” said the " alwavs in front 0° Bird’s hotel dog-dealer ; « but I'm not offer- in summer an’ at the butcher- ing it to you as sausage.” shop in winter.” GOLF-CLUB CHAT. IN THE HOTEL RES- Klube—" If Arnold went TAURANT. a step further he would be me) ot any, enti guilty of profanity.” First quest— w ali Ren ’s Hadleigh» 1 thought he hieelneeenlin = ronment: a used language that was above any use to tell him we were in Ha hurry.” reproach ? a hurry. . Klube—“ Language? 1 Second guest—" No. It's HAPPY RECOLLECTIONS. “ . hie Ss don’t mean his language. He no use being in a hurry unless Well, my man, what are you in for? his ied caldvice ¢ ' Leifiveontanious't * Oh, I'm in fer'a good time, lady.”* uses his wife’s caddy-bag for VOR San mane! AG IOUS: I don't understand you." his laundry.” “I'm In fer lickin’ me mother-in-law, lady."* il I My Toad UT ee | ~—— t i ——d \ v & c t ‘ ; CONSOLATION. Wivow Grocan—“* Oh, yis: poor Pat was sinsible whin he died."* Friend McCarty—" Av koorse, Mrs. Grogan: thot was th’ most sinsible thing he iver did.” . comicbooks.com