Judge, 1902-05-17 · page 7 of 16
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This page contains several satirical pieces targeting turn-of-the-century American society: **"Great Values in Faith"** mocks commercial advertising's use of exotic imagery. A department store hires a Muslim man as a living display prop for "Oriental" textiles during a sale, exploiting his genuine faith as mere decoration. The satire: retailers commodify authenticity for profit while reducing people to theatrical props. **"The Submarine Pike-Hunt"** is absurdist humor about mermaids complaining a fisherman caught their prey. **"Why Rome Was Burned"** reinterprets the Nero legend: the populace burns Rome not from madness, but because Nero's constant fiddling is unbearable—blaming leadership indifference for societal destruction. **"The Only Way"** criticizes monopoly trusts: a child's lamb is sold to a trust, which won't release it to market (controlling supply/prices), a critique of Gilded Age corporate consolidation. The page satirizes commercialism, monopolies, and the gap between appearance and reality in American capitalism.
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GREAT VALUES IN FAITH. VERY one knew he was a dyed-in-the- warp Mohamme- dan, brought over at enormous cost, and from eight a.m. until fives thirty in the after- noon of bargain- day added the fin- ishing touch of realism to the dreamy oriental comer, replete with luxurious and enticing textiles, jutediciously ar- ranged, thus. pro- ducing the agreeable impres- sion that they, too, were ime ported. It lacked thirty minutes of THE SUBMARINE PIKE-HUNT. addins Diana Mermaio—*' Dear me, what luck! Here we've been chas- the ‘tour when Aladdin's pal. ing that big pike with dog-fish for the last five hours, and now ace would be closed to the some beastly fisher has caught him on his hook.” tone of submissive conviction, * There is no faith but in the ad.-writer, and great is his master’s profi.” ws 8 rave SPRING FISHIN’. JQLUEBIRDS in the orchard, weather 's growin’ Startin’ fur ol’ “Lizzard” with a hook an’ lin Perch will bite this mornin’ down in + Bullhead hole"; Streaks uv jo} Jadness runnin’ through my soul. Crick is blue Fish-hawks s Got my bait an’ tackle ; hope I'll git a st Nuthin’ like it now’eres, fishin’ in the spring. Jor cone. WHY ROME WAS BURNED. NERO continued fiddling. The populace, maddened to “desperation, ap- plied the torch with reckless abandon. At last they desisted. Still, above the clatter of the engines and the clamor of the gongs, they heard the strains of his music. Seizing torches, they rushed again to the field of destruction, saying one to another, “ Will nothing stop him 2" WHAT CAME OF IT. THE ONLY WAY. ; MARY had a title tamb— Lapy—"*Here is a cent. Now, what are you going to do with it?" She sold it to the trust. Weary Wacctes—' Ah, mum, I'll hev ter submit dat question to de board uv directors uv de ‘ copper . trust.’ It wouldn't do ter dump all dis metal onter de market at once widout considerin’ de prob- ‘Shes cutting coupons now so fast able consequences.” Her scissors never rust. outer world; but the cus- tom of ages is not lightly to be broken, and ere the last of the great value-seeking throng had quitted this grotto of delightful wonders. he spread his prayer-carpet in the aisle. In outward semblance he was still true to the religion of his fa- thers; yet orthodoxy had triumphed. Nine hours’ of miracles passing before his eyes had carried the truth into his soul. As the last rays of the setting sun—there being no domes at hand to gild shone above the Jersey flats UTILIZING THE SQUEAL. he turned reverently toward Danny's method of calling the hands to dinner, the east and uttered in a CORN MEAL, comicbooks.com