Judge, 1902-05-31 · page 2 of 16
Judge — May 31, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains literary criticism and social commentary rather than political cartoons. The main text discusses Bret Hart's poetry, Tillman's political prospects, and animal welfare societies—none specific enough to date precisely. The cartoon at bottom, titled "It's Reached France," depicts two men at what appears to be a Paris newspaper office. The caption quotes a Chicago resident asking a Parisian editor if "the English language is becoming the universal one in Paris," with the editor responding affirmatively. This satirizes American cultural influence spreading globally—a recurring Judge theme mocking how American English and culture were penetrating even traditionally French-speaking Europe. The joke reflects early 20th-century anxiety about American cultural dominance abroad.
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Sage. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, 110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW TORK. Terms to Subscribers. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IH ADV ‘One copy, one year, or 52 numbers Ove cop fe numbers One copy, for thirteen weeks = cluding the Comistatas ups. FOREIGN SURSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 year Wastaen Orrice—$ 28-829 Marquette Buslding, Chicago. Heworean sates actxrs—/aternational neve couipany, tiream's building, Chancery lane FC Tandon. “Brentanc's, avenue de F Opera, Parle: Saarkach's mews exchange, Slain, Germany. The coatents of JUDGE are protected by copyright i ro is United States and Great Britaia. Infringement of this DRAWINGS and all cootributions seat to the Art Department should have the sender's ful: ry separate sketch. The accompanying joke or be written upon its individual pictore, and NOT ps to the st of postage is also required, HE yrim lawn-mower’s wild bravura clicks Across the green and sets on edge our teeth, And while we pause the spreading oak beneath is gay tick-tock the cricket tocks and ticks, ing, as he jumps and kicks, The same old thing which echoes round the heath ; And then, cooled by his hat-bound cabbage-wreath, The mower from his nasal swats and flicks The fly that makes the taurine quadruped Frisk and cavort and whirl around the manse; And while the bumbles round the lily-bell With rapture bumble, comes the wagon red, Which makes the urchin blithely leap and dance To the sweet music of its ice-cream bell. THE iE LAST STRAW that keeps the back of the human camel from breaking as he toils across the arid urban cobbles is the straw that has a mint julep at the other end of it. eee EOPLE who take to water in time of sickness should boil the liquid before imbibing it, inasmuch as they should realize that an ounce of typhoid prevention is worth a pound of water-cure. me PROVINCIAL CRITIC says that Bret is mere doggerel. Just why the deeply-penetrating, all-wise critic will persist in taking his great talents to the hayseed market is a puzzle that may not be easily solved. ee % HEN TILLMAN succeeds in having himsek kicked out of politics he may still be available for the mimic stage if he can only find a genics suffi- ciently gifted to write a blood-and-thunder pla: him that will be worthy of his flamboyant and c talent. wee CERTAIN SOCIETIES are now prot the publication in comic papers of pictur they claim hold various races up to ridicule. After a while the stand they have taken may be followed by the tramps and mules, for of all creatures they have been caricatured the most frequently, and yet have taken it all in good part and shown themselves to be possessed of a beautiful spirit of forgiveness and resig- nation. They have also been more consistent than those races whose champions now protest so vigorously, inasmuch as they appreciate the fact that if they did not lend themselves so readily to the uses of the caricature they would not be continually caricatured. H'c# over the pave, on a line, the bathing-suit ’s daintily flapping ; Tumbled and tossed in the wind, it tells us that summer is here. See the red rose on the string that’s bobbing around in the zephyr, Yet when it bobs at its best it bobs in Evangeline’s hair. it be Hanna or Roosevelt?” * Oh, will it be Roosevelt or Reed ?”” Up in his eyrie sits Hill and guesses and gu and guesses— White-houseward fondly he looks ’way out o’er the beautiful Hud. This is the moon of ice-cream; the bell of ice-cream ’s loudly ringing. Jangle it e’en as you will, it jangled can’t be out of tune. Soon ‘neath the light of the moon Adolphus and Maud An; ty Held by the charm of the scene, will watch the light dance on the sea. These are a few of the things that cause us to think that the summer Capers about in our midst, the roseate damsel of yore. Yea, do we see her cavort o’er hilltop and meadow and valley; Gayly she dances along while twinkle her sandals of gold. ITS REACHED FRANCE. “The English language is becoming the universal one in Paris.” Mr. Wasasn (of Chicago) — Mam’secte—" Sure, I kin!" Newspoper editorial, “Parlez vous Anglais, mam’selle ?"" comicbooks.com