Judge, 1902-07-26 · page 4 of 16
Judge — July 26, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several humor pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical journalism: **"The Power of Slang"** and **"An Aquatic Fable"** are brief humorous stories about language's effects and foolish behavior, respectively. **"Judge's Favorites"** presents witty verse on social topics—romance, drinking, and marriage appear to be recurring themes. **"A Chemist's Point of View"** makes a pun about vinegar dissolving calcium carbonate. The illustrated cartoons show genteel social situations: a drowning rescue scene and romantic/domestic scenarios. The bottom panels labeled **"No. 3—The Wonderful Doings of Marvelous Thomas"** appear to be a comic strip featuring character transformations or comparisons (a cracked pitcher becoming a baseball pitcher). The humor relies on wordplay, social observation, and slapstick rather than political commentary.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. BELLE HARPER. Whene’er you twirl and frisk and swirl In many a pretty pose, ‘Tis then that we dream of the bee That bobs from rose to rose. Whene’er you wing about and sing. With ecstasy aglow, ‘We feel you are the twinkling star ‘That makes the show a show Oh, when you play you make us gay, While joy our vision tops, And ne'er we're mad and glum and sad ntil the curtain drops. SARCASM, Mrs, de Style (haughtily sorry, but I would not permit my daughter to go with a man that drinks, Turnedowne—" | thought as tauch, for Thave never seen your daughter out with her father.” A CHEMIST’S POINT OF VIEW. Falk Clevpatra, so the i Dissolved a pearl and drank it, her mage how 5 this did not serve to prove the glory of her state THE POWER OF SLANG. THE power transmuta- tive of slang With wonder strikes me dumb, The man once called a big “sardine” A “lobster has bee come. AN AQUATIC FABLE. A MAN in a row: boat was once thrown into a stream. He set up a shout, as if he imagined that the most important thing in the world would be to rescue him from the water. His cries attract- ed the attention of a man on the bank, who picked up a sledge- hammer and threw it to the drowning man, who increased the vehemence of his shouts. Then the man on the bank threw a crowbar to the other and said, TIMES HAVE CHANGED. ‘Tue ProvicaL—"' The father in the bible story, dad, killed the fatted calf for his son.” It showed t vinegar dissolves calcium care "Yep; but he wasn't up against no beef trust, NO CAUSE FOR JEALOUSY. He—" Your dog seems to be jealous of me." ‘Sue —* Oh, he won't be—as soon as he knows you better.” “Lcould break into a bank or tear down an alibi with those tools. “Strange if you persist in drowning after my efforts to save you.” Moral—As the man in the water was a fool who rocked the boat it served him mighty right. W, BoB HOLLAND, ‘THE HEIGHT OF REALISM. The landscape painter—* Don't you know, I'm quite a realist.” The animal painter (sarcastically )— « Well, well!) Who'd have thought it ?” The landscape painter — Fact, 1 assure you. I always smoke when I'm painting a hazy atmosphere.” NO, 3.—THE WONDERFUL DOINGS OF MARVELOUS THOMAS, Here I have drawn, as you may see, a cracked pitcher, and with the addition have — fa few more strokes of the brush we -——a crack baseball pltche —-s Sc ne Ra » comicbooks.com