Judge, 1902-05-03 · page 3 of 16
Judge — May 3, 1902 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humorous sketches typical of early-20th-century satirical journalism: **"By the Wild Waves"** (top): A poem about seaside wandering and romance, illustrated with period figures. **"Excessive Mileage"** (left): A dialogue where a cabbie demands payment for numerous trips, exploiting a passenger—satirizing overcharging taxi drivers. **"Most Important"** and **"Inaccurate"** (center): Brief comedic anecdotes about trivial domestic concerns (mirrors, newspaper misprints) treated as urgent—mocking petty preoccupations. **"Merely an Opinion"** (middle): Rural characters dismissing city sophistication—a common class-based joke. **"Gamy"** (bottom): A dinner scene where guests euphemistically discuss "game preserve" for spoiled meat—satirizing pretentious dining language masking poor quality. The overall theme: social pretension, class differences, and linguistic absurdity in everyday situations.
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BY THE WILD WAVES. DOWN beside the bitlows at the close of day, "Neath the olive skyscape, in the moon of May, When the stars were sprinkling star-dust on the sea, And the dew was trembling on the white-ruse tree, Long, oh, long, we wandered by the sea that night, And the whispered nothings I've forgotten quite. But m; soul's elation bubble While on Through the town on sunny pinions swift 1 wing For the necessary shekels for a ring. MOST IMPORTANT. HT you said this was a life-or-death growled the sleepy” druggist, who had ed at three a.m, by a man who wanted a nt stamp. it is,” declared the man; “so it is. I've got to mail this letter to my wife at once, that she may get it in time to postpone her return home long enough for me to have a new mirror put in the parlor and the hall dl, Some of the boys spent the evening with EXCESSIVE MILEAGE. Caswier—"I've been dabbling in stocks, old chap. Could you lend me five thousand dollars to carry me over?" Frien>—"' Five thousand dollars? Why, you can get to Canada or Cuba for fifty.” INACCURATE. SeTHE papers have a mighty garbled report of the contest,” said the champion pugilist. Haven't they ?” echoed his secreta “ Awful!” continued the scrapper. “Why, [have been misquoted a dozen times in four rounds.” MERELY AN OPINION. Farmer PLuccr—'''Mandy, the fools hain’t all dead yit, an’ they don’t all live in the country, nuther.”* WM coo eres MATES 4 our Hiase}. ¢ Lanotaoy—' ww do you like my preserved strawberries, Mr. Slopay?"” % Mr. Storay—" Well, it 1s certainly a game preserve. | thought It was sauerkraut. comicbooks.com