Judge, 1902-04-19 · page 4 of 16
Judge — April 19, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"Judge's Favorites"** features actress Alice Johnson with a laudatory poem celebrating her theatrical talents and beauty. **"A Well-Protected Neighborhood"** and **"His First Olive"** appear to be brief humorous dialogues mocking working-class speech patterns and social pretensions—typical of period humor that relied on ethnic or class-based dialect comedy. **"Quick and Effective"** satirizes school entertainment committees and stage-managers through a panic scenario about audience safety during a performance. **"A Case in Point"** is a domestic comedy sketch where a wife jokes that clergy profit from mistakes—specifically, ministers who marry couples. The illustrations are pen-and-ink drawings typical of early-20th-century Judge magazine's style. Overall, this page mixes theatrical commentary, class-based humor, and domestic satire common to the era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
JUDGE'S FAVORITES. ALICE JOHNSON, Whene’er you appear ‘tis to shine in drama, In dance, or in cake-walk. You're ever the star of the show—the star that keeps rising and rising. And when you essay the high kick and caper in manner most frisky, You hold us spellbound till our thoughts are simply a riotous rumpus. Oh, long may you curvet and skip as light as the bloom- scented zephyr, And long may we linger and dream, entranced by your gay evolutions, Until we exclaim, in our joy, “Oh, you're the particular Alice That tops as the quail tops the toast roseate fancy.” the crest of our Mrs, Bennant THE WEATHER. THE weather isa curious thing — It changes so from day to day. But if it didn’t what on earth Would stupid people have to say? A WELL-PROTECTED NEIGHBORHOOD. First tramp—* Have any luck around here ?” Second tramp —" Awful luck! Half de folks keeps dogs an’ de udder half keeps wood- piles.” HIS FIRST OLIVE. Casey—" Phwat's thot th’ bar-tindher is afther puttin’ in th’ booze 2" Clancy—" Whisht! Don't display yure ignorance. Thot's an Oirish cherry.” QUICK AND EFFECTIVE. ANIC-STRICKEN, the stage-manager rushes to the chairman of the school- entertainment committee. “The hall is on fire!" he “If we tell the au- dience there will be a riot and many will be killed in the rush to get out. If we do not tell them they will all be burned. Now, the chairman is a man of coolness and ingenuity. curtain, he says, “Ladies and gentlemen, we will next be entertained by Miss Winnie Wurdeigh, the well-known elocutionist, who will render ‘Curfew shall not ring to-nigh As by magic the audience flits from the hall, one by one, until seats is left to satiate the furious appetite of the red demon. Scams: First vase—‘'I see Candle is wearing a fool's cap again.” Secono vase—" Yes: and he seems quite put out about it. Oh, what shall we do?” Stepping quietly before the aught but the empty i Mtl A sl A CASE IN POINT. -" Some people profit by the mistakes of others." Bennam—" Yes. For instance, the minister who got five dollars for marrying us."! comicbooks.com