Judge, 1902-04-26 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 26, 1902 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated humorous sketches and jokes typical of Judge magazine's satirical format. The cartoons include: 1. **"An Appropriate Comment"** - A lion (representing a monarch) is mocked as a "belted earl" by a courtier, satirizing royal pretension. 2. **"Puzzling Femininity"** - A philosophical observation about women's inscrutability, illustrated with a woman's face. This reflects early-20th-century gender stereotyping common to the era. 3. **"An Egg-Beater"** - A simple visual pun on the mechanical device. 4. **"A Hopeless Task"** - Shows men with steamrollers, apparently satirizing futile labor or an impossible endeavor (the specific reference is unclear). The page emphasizes Judge's characteristic blend of visual humor, wordplay, and social commentary aimed at educated readers of the period.
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AN APPROPRIATE COMMENT. 6¢GAD-ZOOKS" ejaculated the court-jester as the monarch, full of sack and humor, waggishly swatted a fawning courtier half way across the apartment just be- cause he happened to think of 1.“ Od-zounds! ‘That's what you'd call a belted lor l don’t know the symptoms.” And the bon-mot so pleased his royal serap- piness that he very promptly granted the fool a life pension for total disability. VERY LIKELY. : OLD is avery Apsent-minpep Dentist—" Why, my dear sir, your teeth are q in an awful condition, Allow me to fill a few for you.” scarce commod- ity. Perhaps that is PUZZLING FEMININITY. why silence is called $+ ANOTHER odd thing about woman,” said the gen- _ xoklen tle philosopher, stroking his long white beard, BY COMPARISON. “is that she can grasp at a glance the mean- = e—" It must be awful to be buried alive—squeezed.in Fs Fy E - a coffin and unable to move.”* ing of the dotted lines, solid lines, and oe He—" Yes, indeed. | tell you, Jane, there are punched holes in a paper pattern, but worse places than this flat, if you only when she tries to locate San Francisco fs stop to think about it. on a railway map she looks for it somewhere between Chesapeake bay and the coast of Maine, And eve KNOWS HIS BUSINESS. Freddie— \ cat keeps only his with two college diplomas to attest front claws sharp.” to her strong mentality she has never obwi ¢ ree ome to think of yet been able to understand a railway it, that’s so. Those are the ones he time-taple.” scratches you with.” = oat = Freddic—"\ know it, dad; but N ounce of keep-your-mouth-shut = 5 > 2 a sie when he goes to scratch himself he is often worth a pound of ex- uses only his hind claws.” planation, AN EGG-BEATER. A HOPELESS TASK. Ernet—‘'] suppose ‘ picking a winner’ is just like finding money,” Cnotty—" Well, ne: it is more like hunting for golf-balls.”* comicbooks.com