Judge, 1902-09-06 · page 2 of 16
Judge — September 6, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge's late 19th/early 20th-century format. The main cartoon titled "WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK" depicts two men negotiating over flowers, with dialogue about selling a "gold-brick" to New York and payment arrangements. A "gold-brick" was period slang for a confidence scheme or worthless investment—the satire mocks common swindling tactics of the era. The upper text includes poetic commentary on various social topics, including references to "Panama" (likely the Canal), fashion preferences for dark colors among the wealthy, and observations about seasonal changes and theater. The cartoon's humor relies on depicting con-artists or shrewd businessmen attempting to outsmart each other—a common Judge theme satirizing American commercial culture and gullibility.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, 110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Terms to Subscribers. One copy, six mont (One copy, for thineen weeks = = “Fcieding the Comsracas Juoce, FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year Wesven Ornice—$25-829 Marquette Building, Chicago. eAM SALES-ACENTS—laternational news company, Dream's building, Chancery EC, London Germany. The contents of JUDGE are protected by copyright lane, rentan's, avenue de Opera, Paris; Saarbach's news exchange, Mains, hb the United States and Great Britais. ly prosecuted. ‘and self-addressed ervelope with all wanescripts, ailable cannot be gt . seat fo the Art Department should have the sender's felt ame and address written plalaly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying joke ot escriptive letter. press should in every instance be written upea its ledividual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. laclosare of stamps to the full amoust of postage is alse required, to insure safe and prompt return of material vot accepted. B)HERE is a vague and misty something, which We can’t define, that haunts the hazy hills. It seems as if a wistful spirit spills Urnfuls of touchful dreams that simply: > Our airy fancies quite into a rich Arabian night that packs and crams and lis With unheard predigested music-thrills Our thoughts, and hurls dull care into a ditch. The noet says this witchery ht means A prescience of the thing that wakes his sigh And causes him to caracole in glee Until the shekels jingle in his jeans. The thing he wots of is the topaz pie That gills the yearning soul it holds in fee. WE SHOULD be thankful to overflowing when we fully realize and appreciate the gorgeousness of this great golden fact, that Mr. David Bennett Hill is ‘Woalat M® BRYAN seems to be a better hand at telling us what the trouble is than in telling us how to cure it. THE light and airy ** panama””— Thre real and the sham— Will shortly exodust and to The nobby “felt” salaam. The “felt”? will then perform a jig, With gayety aglow, Unto the “ panama’s” swan song So touchful, don’t you know. eee r IS SAID that the farmers are about to form a fifty-million-dollar trust. It is to be hoped that this movement may not cause the bill-of-fare on the five-dollar-a-week-way-back boarding-house table to deteriorate and become a mere pot-cheese proposition; and also that it may not lower the standard of progressive checkers, as at ‘present played, with a pop-corn accompaniment, by the agile manipulator of the hoe. 'HE LATEST VARIATION of a time-honored illustration of a wild desire and a mild means of satisfying it is found in the picture of the man with the hard-coal yearning and the kindling-wood wallet. And it may not be out of place to add that the premium on ccal has changed an- other figure of speech, as it is now common, in voicing a suspicion, to re- mark that it looks very much as if there is a nigger in the coal-bin. eee T HAS just been discovered, presumably by a French scientist, that the miniature buzzard commonly known ir New Jersey and vicinity as the mosquito has a color-sense so extremely keen that it exerts a great influ- ence on its life and methods. It appears that this rapacious insect has pronounced preference for dark blue and a decided aversion to yellow. This fact should set the fashion in pajama colors and lead the bald-headed Jer- seyman to adopt the practice of incasing his dome of thought in a saffron envelope, like that of a ham, at night. It should also win benisons and shekels of gold and silver for the scientist who has discovered that the mystic minstrel of the marsh and mere {s not color-blind. eee THE katydid beneath the moon Chants loud, in rapture lost; Which means in six Weeks more we'll mix Our fancies with the frost. And while the katydid performs Its lyrical ding-dong, The playwright shows How well he knows The meaning of that song. Om WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK. Hiram —‘* A feller tried to sell me a gold-brick down to Noo York."” Swas—" Did ye buy it?” Hinam—* Nope; but | told him | would ef he'd come out here an’ take his pay in board."* comicbooks.com