Judge, 1902-08-30 · page 10 of 16
Judge — August 30, 1902 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated satirical items typical of early-20th-century humor magazines: **"The Wash-Out on the Roof"** parodies contemporary "free verse" poetry by presenting mundane laundry-hanging as pseudo-literary subject matter—mocking the new poetic movement's elevation of ordinary domestic scenes. **"Two-Thirty A.M."** jokes about a suitor being asked to retrieve the morning newspaper before leaving a woman's house at an unseemly hour, implying impropriety. **"A Geometrical Axiom"** presents simple-minded logic through children's dialogue. **"Sparing No Pains"** satirizes a boxing manager equipping his fighter with a ten-volume dictionary for "training"—absurdly conflating intellectual and physical preparation. **"So Sudden"** presents a woman surprised by a marriage proposal, but her concern is financial due diligence rather than romance—satirizing matrimonial mercenary attitudes. The illustrations employ caricature and exaggeration typical of the era's cartooning style.
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THE WASH-OUT ON THE ROOF. i (With am 1.0. Usto one of the new school of poery.) fi ICROSS the roofs, secured upon a line, a ) The Monday wash sags round and i) wu aps all day. No matter what the weather, rain or fa shine, h i) When Bridget hangs it there “it's P n | pa" wey, F | The evening shadows creep upon the q wall ; ; ‘The yellow dog is chained up all i the night. o> 7 Thear across the fence-top some one AN Nigg < | all, K =e “« Haul in the line and take the togs Www 7 ir from sight!” SSS =e in h And thus I sit and let my eyelids down ; & a ‘My fancy wanders seaward with- a out fear. u And thus a voyage I make while still 7 j in town Cus-Dinns 8 | ‘And save the price of many a stein al f of beer. nem Pic—" Darn those thieving swallows! Pretty soon we'll have no mud at all down here if they h keep on building clay nests." ’ . TWO-THIRTY A.M. SPARING NO PAINS. Voice (from up stairs, to suitor in parlor)—"George, when you ¢6YES, I'll take the set,” said the pugilistic manager to the agent for ? leave will you ptease throw in the morning paper?” the ten-volume dictionary. “I ain't goin’ to have it said that I t didn’t give my man every ad- ° vantage possible in trainin’ H him." z Jasper — Professor Big- head has had a great disap- | as pointment in his life.” : Jumpuppe— What was | in?” Jasper—" He pursued his scientific researches until he developed a beautiful theory, A GEOMETRICAL AXIOM. and then he kept on pursuing “Things like unto the same things are like unto each other.”” them until he exploded it.” SO SUDDEN. Mas—“ Did he really take you by surprise when he proposed?” Erue.—"*Yes, indeed! Why, | hadn't even looked up his financial standing."" comicbooks.com