Judge, 1902-07-05 · page 9 of 20
Judge — July 5, 1902 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces: **Top cartoon:** "Celebrating the Fourth in Bugville" depicts anthropomorphic animals (bugs/insects) celebrating Independence Day. Mr. Snail addresses fleeing creatures, asking if they've never seen a snail before—the joke being that snails are notoriously slow, so the panicked animals' flight is absurdly exaggerated. **Middle poems and text:** Humorous pieces about Fourth of July celebrations, including a joke about a defective toy volcano that "won't explode"—satirizing both cheap merchandise and the unpredictability of actual fireworks. Another joke mocks the tradition of having women read the Declaration of Independence at celebrations, suggesting it's done to avoid marital embarrassment if a man performed poorly. **Bottom section:** "The Pomp of Power" depicts elaborately robed royal and noble figures, likely satirizing King Edward's coronation procession with caricatured British nobility in their ceremonial regalia. The page uses humor to lampoon consumer goods, gender roles, patriotic traditions, and aristocratic pageantry.
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) vie Y \ | NN \ | I, \ Drawn by Gas Dirks CELEBRATING THE FOURTH IN BUGVILLE. | Mr, Swait—" Aw, say! what are you all running away for? Didn't you ever see a snail before?" | DIS YERE’S INDERPENDENCE DAY. | T de fish-horn, sonny— Git yor fire-cracks ready, Dinah! Sukey! Polly! Toot it, Pete, mah lam'! Beat dem tin-pan drums ; Act like T feel funny? right stea Dance like yo" feel jolly, } Sho'ly, bub, Tam Dar, Jim, dat’s de stuff! Cheer like army comes! t | Antic as a cult at play Hear ‘em bang an" hop away— My of heart is light an’ gay— Dis yere’s Inderpendence day ! Dis yere’s Inderpendence day ! Dis y Inderper e day! Wot | A PERFECT IMITATION. “OHERE, sir" I say angrily to the dealer; “that miniature volcano ¢+ APA," asked the little Peck boy, why do they always have a you sold me for my little boy's Fourth will not explode. We lady to read the Declaration of Independence at the fourth-of-July don’t know whether it will go off or not. And yet you guaranteed it celebrations ?" to be a perfect imitation of the real thing.” “Well,” he answers insolently, “isn't it? ‘They can’t tell when’ the real ones are going to bust, either.” ONE REASON. * Because,” was the solemn answer, “the committee knows how foolish it would seem to have a man read it with his wife in the audience.” ! RE ERR wong ane Ug meget THE “POMP OF POWER" IN THE “PATHS OF GLORY" TO BE SEEN AT KING EDWARD'S CORONATION PROCESSION. comicbooks.com