Judge, 1902-07-12 · page 4 of 16
Judge — July 12, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several distinct satirical pieces rather than a unified political cartoon. The main content includes: 1. **"By the Sounding Sea"** - A narrative poem about working-class mothers and their sons, touching on themes of manual labor and economic hardship. 2. **"Judge's Favorites"** - A poem by Marguerite Clark celebrating aesthetic pleasures. 3. **"Cause and Digression"** - A brief dialogue satirizing rural superstitions about omens and portents. 4. **"Nine Lives"** - A humorous cat illustration. 5. **"As It Appeared to Willie"** - A short anecdote about a child's country visit. 6. **"Our Country Cousin"** - Dialogue mocking rural dialect and sophistication. The page appears to mix sentimental working-class commentary with gentle mockery of rural/provincial life—typical Judge magazine fare combining social observation with light humor.
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BY THE SOUNDING SEA. NOW bopefully mamma shuts her home and packs the duds and goes to roam with her young, winsome, summery lass, just graduated from her class. They go to loll upon the shore, where ocean rolls and landlords roar; where other mammas watch and wait for fortunes for their dear boys’ fate. Ah, merrily the landlords smile, free from for knows he what n store, for he’s kept tavern there be- fore. He knows that when the season 's gone somebody 's going to quit the lawn with slower step, with less of dash, with nothing gained and less of cash. And as he looks back at the sea merrily he will gloat in glee, as all the boarders go away, “They'll come again some other day. E’en though they marry, they'll be here with some one else—who knows—next year. They'll come again to stroll and wink and ask the wild w. Pato by Chickering. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. MARGUERITE CLARK. ‘Who wouldn't sit In joy serene To see you flit From scene to scene? Assylph petite, Abuman kite, You're simply sweet- Ness linked to light. You slip and slide, You gleam and glance, The breezy bride Of true romance, And never stop, But onward press, A dream of top- A GREAT SAVER. ‘Syturviness. Gtapys—"' Mrs. Blowitt hasn't been able to leave her bed since her ‘auto’ ran away with her. Rurert—No. Blowitt says the machine has more than paid for itself already.”” Long may you hold ‘The earth in fee And gather gold From sea to sea, And lightly flit In spangled boots Upon your lit- Tle tootsy-woots. CAUSE FOR APPREHENSION. Mrs. Hornbeak —* Ezry, V'm_ afraid your ma is losin’ her mind.” Farmer Hornbeak—" What makes ye think so? I ain't noticed any purtickler signs of it.” Mrs. Hornbeak AS IT APPEARED TO WILLIE. ‘6QH, MAMMA!" cried the little boy who was making his first visit to { the country, “come quick and see Uncle 9 Reuben turn the cow's faucets on.” OUR COUNTRY COUSIN. Smart city visitor (showing a chest- nut-burr)—""Say, Rube, what d'ye call Why, she’s got so’s ra IVES. is 2” | she don’t ‘pear to think everybody that NINE. LIVES this | comes to the house is anxious to hear all Nir onost of Twouas Cat Geo! it's. a good thing olf Rube— You dern fool! that’s a por- | about her gran‘children.” room for me in heaven.” cupine’s exe. HIS WISH. ‘Sue— say nothing ts lost in nature." He—"I wish the chap who wrote that had to find my golf-balls."" comicbooks.com