Judge, 1902-08-09 · page 6 of 20
Judge — August 9, 1902 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains humorous short pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. Key content includes: **"His Sole Yearn"**: A working-class man fantasizes about wealth not for luxury, but to afford the petty satisfaction of destroying an alarm clock—destroying the object that forces him to wake early for labor. It's satire on working-class frustration and the daily grind. **Baseball joke**: References the New York baseball club starting the season as favorites ("top") but ending poorly ("bottom")—likely the Yankees or Giants, though unclear which season. **"The Bowery Omar"**: Mockingly presents lower-class immigrant life (Coney Island, beer, sandwiches) as "heaven," mimicking the romantic tone of Omar Khayyam's poetry. It's ethnic/class satire about immigrant aspirations. **"Marvelous Thomas"**: A visual gag showing a Dutchman drawing becoming progressively more detailed to resemble a beer mug—playing on ethnic stereotypes about German immigrants and drinking. The page emphasizes working-class humor and period ethnic stereotyping common to Judge magazine.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. KATHERINE CALL. ‘When It comes to the genius of kicking, we think You are quite of perfection the number-one ink; For whenever you kick in a manner so gay Allour cares to perdition you kick right away. Kick along, merry maiden, so span and 0 spick, And you'll make all your rivals from jeal ousy kick. DEDICATED TO A. FREEDMAN ET AL, SOYVHAT do people mean, pa, when they say the first shall be last 2" “They have in mind the New York baseball club, that starts the season at the top and ends at the bottom.” HIS SPHERE. Politicus—“ There was some disa- greement among the powers.” Familicus— Are you referring to my wife, mother-in-law and cook ?” PERMANENT. HIS strange, eternal, cruel fact Will stick when all of us are still— ‘There's always one fly left in the room, No matter how many you kill. HIS SOLE YEARN. ¢¢] DON'T hanker after wealth merely for the sake of the prominence its possession gives a feller,” said the red-eyed man. grimly, “and I wouldn't hoard it up if I had it an’ take pleasure in siftin’ the shinin’ yaller pieces through my greedy fingers; but, by Johnny ! I'd gloat myself down sick if 1 could only feel rich enough, just for once in my life, to grab up a whangin’, clangin’ alarm-clock early in the mornin’, hurl it as high as I could out of the second- story window, and then shoot it, as it was comin’ down, with a scatter-gun loaded with buck- shot, an’ spread its clamorin’ wheels an’ gongs an’ ticks all over the surroundin’ scenery, an’ then just rar back an’ yell « Har, har!" like a fiend incarnate.” SUMMER. CONFIDENCES. Her chum—* Your heart must have gone pitty-pat when Mr. Steeltrust pro- posed.” Penelope (confidentially )—* + Pitty- pat’? It went ping-pong.” ‘THE BOWERY OMAR. A PAPER wid de latest sportin’ noos, A.san'wich an’ a shell uy beer, A.spielin’ wid me down ter Coney isle— If dat ain’t heaven den de angels lose. BARRIERS, Mrs. Brown—" If I should die, John, would you marry again?" Mr. Brown—" | hardly think so—not if the woman saw these kids first.” REALISTIC, Parke—“ The other day I was ina kind of vision and saw my wife as the most perfect woman in the world.” Lane—* Where were you?" Parke—“ In an_intelligence-office, PRETZELS. AND BEER. i ‘ Dezrwarer nass—''I say! what's the matter with you eels?” describing her to a cook I was trying to Tue exts—" We've been to a German picnic." engage.” NO, 5,—THE, WONDERFUL DOINGS OF MARVELOUS THOMAS. mug of “Here I have drawn a mug of beer, and with a few more strokes we have the the — —Dutchman that drinks it,"* comicbooks.com