Judge, 1902-08-02 · page 4 of 16
Judge — August 2, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humorous sketches and poems rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **"A Canine Opinion"** — A dog's quip about being half-dog, half-automobile, satirizing early automobiles as common urban sights. **"A Philosophic Nag"** — A poem from a horse's perspective, lamenting lost pastoral life while surrounded by urban technology (fan, knife-handles, glue). **"A Wicked Plot"** — A domestic humor piece about a woman getting her uncle to send her across the water (travel), with her husband's suspicious interpretation. **"Startling Incompetence"** — A photograph-based sketch mocking a bank cashier's decades-long incompetence at his job. The overall tone is light satire on modern life, technology disrupting nature, and human folly—typical of Judge's genteel humor for educated readers.
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A CANINE OPINION, ON 1W0 good wheels and four good fect a I glide around the dusty street, dnd when some buy remarks, care-free, SPigat kind of dog are you T see?” T quick respo “Tam, I fee Half dog and half au-to-mobil A COSTLY PROCEEDING. SS YOUR ailment,” observes the doctor as he bends over the patient, is merely one of the ills that flesh is heir to.” Here the patient rouses himself with an evident effort and replies, "Yes ; and, speaking of falling heir to things, it always costs like sin to break the will, doesn't it? But the physician, being true to his ethics, refrains from mentioning his charges until the patient has regained strength. A PHILOSOPHIC NAG. THOUGH ancient and spavined, U'm good for a run My besom a-recking with whirlaway fun. I'm ne'er off my feed and I'm ne'er off my feet, 3s he meadow is juicy and sweet ; ules and glue all blue, nt and gay ng’s brightest day; But merry As ever I Although this sad jingle my dream ripples through— JUDGE'S FAVORITES. is ife-handles, buttons and glue. ‘ Ever from the house in which you play MARGARET ANGLIN. ‘We're more than sad to doorward stray : z 2 And here's another thing we know— : Where'er you play we're glad to go. We've seen you many times, and yet — We feel we're deeply in your debt. Whene’er you come to scoop the town Our hard-earned coin we'll rattle down To hear your voice and see you pose, Oh, great big luscious a-1 rose" The brightest of the lot we see Upon the histrionic tree. INSUPERABLE OBSTACLE. Fosdick— Come and see us, Keedick. You'll find us in the same place.” Keedick— | thought you in- tended to move.” Fosdich— We did, but we couldn't find a house that suited the cook.” hoc ; SOMETIMES TURNS OUT ‘ee THAT WAY. ' \ . E SWORE he couldn't live with- : . out her When he and she were two; A WICKED PLOT. But now they're one he can’t live with Mac—" After Bessie’s rich uncle heard her sing he offered to send her across the water."” her— Eruet—‘ To cultivate her voice?” So what’s the poor man to do? Mat—""Oh, no: merely to get her out of the way.”” . FOILED AT LAST. 66] TELL yew what, them buaco men didn't git none o° my money -this trip,” boasted Uncle Silas. «They didn’t, hey ?” “No, siree! I lost my pocket-book on the way to town, an* they wasn’t nothin’ fer ‘em ter git.” HE KNEW. Teacher (to class in geog- § raphy) —And who knows 3 what the people who live in g Turkey are called 2” Class (unanimously «Turks !" i Teacher— Right. Now, who can tell mé what those living in Austria are called 2” STARTLING - INCOMPETENCE. ? PP PP ener First purcLan—' Here's a bank-cashler bin stealin’ fer twenty years an’ only taken ten t'ousand dollars."* Se oat ere Second surctar—" Hully gee! Such a incompetent mug ez dat must er got his job t'roo ‘Inflooence.’ "* I know, Ostriches !' comicbooks.com