Judge, 1902-06-07 · page 8 of 18
Judge — June 7, 1902 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains several satirical pieces mocking early-1900s American society: **"How It Happened"** satirizes judicial corruption: a judge, drunk ("head on"), punishes poor prisoners harshly while wealthy offenders escape—whiskey fuels both jails and judicial bias. **"In a Few Years"** mocks extreme wealth inequality: billionaires casually discuss airships and yachts, showing how the ultra-rich inhabit a separate reality from ordinary people. **"Sweet Graduate"** ironically praises an educated woman while questioning whether she'll actually know practical homemaking skills—satirizing the gap between female education and expected domestic roles. **"What He Knew Of It"** jokes that children understand Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) only because it means baseball games, not honoring the dead. **"Just Like a Subway Explosion"** compares volcanic chaos to crowded New York subways—critiquing urban congestion. **Bottom pieces** pun on "horseless carriage" and "carriageless horse"—early automobile humor. The overall tone mocks wealth disparity, judicial corruption, gender expectations, and urban chaos.
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HOW IT HAPPENED. Don't you know that whiskey fills our jails and penitentiaries ?” Tramr—" Yes'm. When de jedge hez a ‘head on’ he usually soaks it to de poor prisoners.” IN A FEW YEARS. THE 0.0 billionaires were talking. * Yes,” said the first, morning, and it is a beauty.” “How much draw? air does she asked the second, who in the early days of his life had owned a yacht. SWEET GRADUATE, WEET graduate, sweet graduate, I trow you're bright and fair In muslin, Swiss and ribbonette And roses in your hair. Becalmed before your radiant face, ‘The rapture of your ey I stand like Such entranced the while hts as these arise: When some years hence yo From scenes like these have strayed, Will you know how to knead and bake Dough like his mother made? fairy feet Will you, when so ne Later on He feels the world’s hard knocks, Sit up at all hours like And darn his worn And when he lays his aching feet— If such should be his plight— Upon the sofa-pillows, don’t Mr. Mannarta re were you last night?” A horseless carriage. I took the first trip in my new air-ship this Wesnoth a WHAT HE KNEW OF IT. snow, children,” said the teacher, * to-morrow is Decoration day and there will be no school. Is there any little boy or girl who can tell me why we close school on that day?” JUST LIKE A SUBWAY EXPLOSION. (doing Italy) —"* This volcano eruption is so homelike! minds me Of dear, dear old New York.” Itre- “IT know !" shouted the little \d boy from the rear seats. “You may tell us, teacher. said the « Because,” stated the litle id boy, * they always play two games of baseball that day, an’ one of ‘em is in the mornin PROBABLY. SeTHAT fills the bill" was heard When first In this common term Perhaps ‘twas when the «: ly bird Had caught the early worm, n't get counter to-day.” ny where near the bargain- Airs. Crabshaw—" How was that?” Mrs. Crawford —« There were a lot of Brooklyn women present, and they were so used to traveling on the bridge that we were altogether outclassed in the rush.” HORSE AND HORSE. A carriageless horse. comicbooks.com