Judge, 1902-07-12 · page 7 of 16
Judge — July 12, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains mostly brief humorous vignettes typical of Judge magazine's satirical style, plus one multi-panel comic strip. **Key content:** The "Forty-Dollar Panama" strip (bottom) satirizes consumer excess and poor value. A man buys an expensive panama hat, then his friends demonstrate its supposed durability through increasingly absurd abuse—jumping on it, running wagons over it—to "prove" its quality. The joke mocks both the inflated price and the ridiculous advertising claims used to justify it. **Supporting shorts** reference contemporary concerns: airship enthusiasm ("fly-time"), Boston's changing diet due to meat price inflation, mosquito-plagued suburban living, fashion puns ("pink-pongee"), and a horse wearing a fly-net. One brief joke references South American political instability ("Looks like a revolution"). Overall, this reflects early 1900s American preoccupations with new technology, inflation, advertising hype, and suburban life—delivered through visual puns and situational humor rather than political commentary.
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—_—_—— eS PROPER SEASON. SUTTHERE are a great’ many airships planned,” said Snooper. “This is fly-time, you knov * added Sumway. A SLIGHT CHANGE. . ‘| UNDERSTAND that Boston isn’t eating so much pork and beans since the price of meat went up.” “ Not so much pork, perhaps. Lam told that the consumption of porkless beans is very heavy, how- ever.” SUBURBAN LIFE REVEALED, Artistic city friend (visiting in Swamphurst)—" Red splashes ona blue background! I never saw such artistic wall paper !” Mr. Lonely (of Swamphurst, gloomily)}—" It was originally plain blue—those red splashes are where I have killed mosquitoes on it.” A QUEER COVERING. APPROPRIATELY > P was the first time that GOWNED. Marie— How are you going to dress for the ping- pong party 2" Gladys—"\ think Tl wear my pink-pongee.” A PAIR OF BATHING TRUNKS. SOFT SOAP. Dorothy had scen a horse with a fy-net on odness !" she ex- claimed, © that horse is wear- ing holes tied together with string SHOULD KEEP OUT OF ‘THE DRAFT. First South American— Barkley —" Poynter's greyhound was awarded a prize of ten dollars for perfect form, at the dog-show.” rker— Yes ;and then “Ah, g6od afternoon, senor. Looks like a revolution.” second South American the ladies’ humane society Six jolly old tars —"Yes, I've been predict- had Poynter arrested, and he Took a ride on the cars. G for se’ days. as HA vuenty doltars & "She's a poor craft,"" they said, “for a gale. ing” one fey Revere) “day was fined twenty dollars for We'll sere? gar tock, My rheumatism always both- ig his dog with cor- For you see we can't tack— We're adrift without rudder or sail." ers me just before such changes.” 3. —You can’t do this to any other kind of a hat “How do you like my new forty.dollar panama, —Just see how itcan be rolled up into small par- : met tine boys? Ain't ita beaut ?— Z cel. You can do almost anything with i ee putting it on the bum. Bing! bing! VJ er WMT y 4. 5. 6 ——You can jump on it or let a wagon run over it +——Now, afterall that rough handling, I'll show you b1—? P—F P— x x x—1 2 and you simply can't break the straw.— that you won't find even a crease tn it ”—— THE SAD TALE OF A FORTY-DOLLAR PANAMA, comicbooks.com