Judge, 1902-05-24 · page 7 of 16
Judge — May 24, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines: **"The Alligators"** (top): A racist joke where alligators discuss driving away "white folks" northward, reversing contemporary racial tensions. **"The Office-Boy"**: A sentimental poem about a young office worker daydreaming—nostalgic rather than satirical. **"The Right Idea"**: A class-based joke where "Bitowy Bunions," apparently a working-class character with a dialect accent, proposes investigating his own character through "personal friends" before employment—satirizing naive job applicants. **"Katy Cutter's Cat"** and **"A Golfer's View"**: Light, domestic humor pieces without political content. **"A Note from Bugville"**: A whimsical illustrated fantasy about insects and a flying machine, poking fun at aviation aspirations. The page reflects Judge's mix of political/social satire with genteel humor and sentimental verse—aimed at educated, middle-class readers amused by working-class caricatures and absurdist scenarios.
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First aLuicator—"' Those white folks are frightening all our fish away. Let's send them back north, where they belong. Fall in line, and —— Second ALLicATOR—" Alll right. THE OFFICE-BOY. ] SAW 2 boy to-day who looked like me When Twas young. His face Had in it all the far look of the sea And freckles in their place. And when men waited there beside his chair And talked a lot of things ‘The boy looked on and listened, while his hair Stood up like ruffled wings. ‘The while the men stood there and patient waited, Each for the man” to see, ‘The boy did pick his teeth while, with breath bated, He listened, just like me. What Patmos vision, landscapes far beyond, Saw he with eyes of blue? What fish caught he in some far-dis- tant pond As he sat there, like you? arent ae, ATE Bu) Santos du Ant has the misfortune of scraping off the bee-hive chimney with his flying-machine on its trlal-trip.—-Daily Buzzette, \ THE RIGHT IDEA. —-we'll show them what we can do in the way of sea-serpents down here."* Mrs. Farmer—"* Before employing you | shall have to investigate your char- acter.” Bitowy Bunions—“' Dat's de right Idee, mum. committee uv me personal friends an’ git o'clock dis afternoon, mum," ; I'll appoint an investigatin’ "em around here by t'ree A NOTE FROM BUGVILLE. KATY CUTTER’S CAT. ATY CUTTER caught a kitten. “Cats,” said she, “are kittle na kettle, Carefully concealed in cotton.” When the cruel, cross catcatcher Came for Katy Cutter’s kitten “Twas curled up in Katy's kettle, So the catcher couldn't catch it. 's why clever Katy Cutter Kept her kitten in a kettle. CAROLYS WHLLS, A GOLFER'S VIEW. First golfer—* That farmer over there is awfully absent- minded.” Second golfer—« Why ?” First golfer— Because this morning I saw him watering the milkweeds.” EXPERIENCE is the poison that embitters the pleasure bought with one dollar because of the un- certainty as to where we shall get another, comicbooks.com