Judge, 1902-03-01 · page 8 of 20
Judge — March 1, 1902 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the scandal surrounding **Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen**, a notorious criminal of the era (implied by references to "Hoch"). The lead article "Pick Out Your Hoch" is a pun-heavy piece playing on multiple meanings of "hoch/hock" — German wine, a horse's joint, pawnshops, Latin declensions — to mock New York's obsession with the criminal case dominating headlines. The cartoon "Had to Mislead Him" satirizes **German culture during anti-German sentiment** (likely WWI-era), showing Irish bandmaster censoring German compositions by relabeling them as Irish songs so a German prince wouldn't recognize them. It's humor about ethnic deception and cultural tensions. The other items are lighter comic vignettes: "Where G.W. Was Shy" makes a pun about George Washington's honesty; "His Mistake" depicts a count's romantic miscalculation. These fill out the satirical miscellany typical of Judge magazine's format.
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PICK OUT YOUR HOCH. There are more hochs loose in New York this week than are dreamt of in any other town on carth.—Hoch Hamlet HERE are more Hochs than "Hoch The Kaiser and Hoch the Prince. They are not all spelled the sami But t water All hochs are alike this week There is Hocheimer, a Rhine wine from Main And Hoc to cut the tendons of the hoc You can hoc your horse if you have One. There is the heck-joint Of the hind leg of any quad- ruped If you know anything about This hock, you know it is situated Between the tibia and tarsus. There is Hock on the Bowery, and many, Other places i town. You ca Hock your “Benjamin,” or family plate, Or anything that has a price on it. saws no congealed Tommy Turtve. minute: BLIND In the inanimate world, as in the animate, Love is Blind. Have you ever played faro? Then you know the hock card Is the last in the box, as the soda Is the first. Then the German hock— Any white Rhine wi So you sce all German hocks are Not spelled hoch. That's right Get onto the Latin hoes hoc saxum posuit; loc tempore; hoc volo sic jubeo Sit pro ratione voluntas; Say. did you ever get up again: That declination in your Latin grammar— Nominative: hic, hace, hoc Genitive: hujus, hujus, hujus. Dative: huic, huic, huic Accusative: hunc, hance, hoc. Vocative: hic, hace, hoc. Ablative: hoc, hac, hoc? nd you remember what Constantine id—In hoe signo, etc? Well, ‘ow spicl and prosit and hoch! Till you can't hoch any more From here to Sagadahoc. PRANK BROOKS Ma wants to know if you'll lend your Johnny to her for a she's dropped a nickel down the waste-pipe in the kitchen sink HAD TO MISLEAD HIM. T was a dhirty thrick, annyhow,” growled Mr. Mulcahey *Phwat’s thot?" asked Mr. O° Tunder. le b'y Terry is playin’ th’ dhrum in th’ Sivinticth Regimint Band, an’ th’ bandmash- ter knew he wudden't play anny Gurman chunes, an’ so he croshed out th’ toitle av ‘Th Watch an th’ Rhoine an’ al) th’ other Gurman wans an’ marked thim as ‘Th’ Wearin’ av th’ Grane’ an’ sooch loike. an’ Terry played loike th’ divil all th’ toime Pr-r-rince Hinry here, niver knowin’ but phwat he handin’ out good Oirish music. An’ now th’ b'y_ has a brick in his han’ an’har-r-d wor-r-rds in his tathe and is hunt- in’ th’ bandmasther.” AS SHE SAW FIT." WHERE G. W. WAS SHY. George Washington, so history saith, A sportsman true was he. And yet he never in his life A fisherman could be He never to the brookside went To cast the bait or fly. He lacked the angler's chiefest gift— He could not tell a lie! en. store. HIS MISTAKE. Count von Attswitt—"Every time I call on Miss ie I find her out nd still you keep right on calling when she is expecting you.” comicbooks.com