Judge, 1902-09-13 · page 3 of 16
Judge — September 13, 1902 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct items: **Top section**: A comic strip showing Uncle Henry taking Aunt Mary on a tour of New York City landmarks (Grant's Tomb, Central Park, Fifth Avenue residences, the elevated railway, Harlem River). **Middle section**: "A Voice of Authority" — a satirical piece mocking pedantic uncle figures who use obscure vocabulary and correct others' grammar. The text ridicules such men as self-important bores who misuse etymology and inflict tedious "education" on family members. **Bottom cartoons**: "A Familiar Proceeding" and "Very Useful" — domestic humor scenes involving a cork-pulling incident and a man buying a horse for mill feed. The satire targets pretentious, garrulous relatives who weaponize education as social dominance—a common Judge target for early-20th-century American readers familiar with such family archetypes.
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SLECSEP RR ERAS “W00Ge aunoi a tip ME 1. Cry wernew—" Uncle Herry. [want you to take a ride with me in my new automobile. ‘ The Whirlwind.” Will show you the many places of rest, 39 when, you get home you can tell Aunt Mary all about it.” A VOICE OF AUTHORITY. ‘eB TYMOLOGICALLY.” didactically said the old codger’s nephew, a recent out- MU AND put from the village academy and the possessor of a convex, overhanging brow and a habit of endeavoring, with the pat- ronizing tolerance of one who talks down from the apex of conscious superiority, to set the old man right in his speech and manners; “etymologically, the word in question * © Archar !" interrupted the veter- NY is i ’ an with a rasp that sounded like the \f SEY big es er his expenses while he was efforts of a misguided rat to gnaw the end SRR at school, an‘"— off from a cast-steel file. “That's it! For vw. «But, uncle "—— ue: years, whenever I didn’t happen to have any- thing of importance on my mind, I have sorter bothered about which was which—etymology or entomology. I knew that one of ‘em'was the ‘ology of words an’ the other the ‘ology of bugs; but the distinction kinder evaded me, an’ whenever I had a good chance to look it up I was generally too tired. words. picked-up knowledge of the subject. Let's see. + agriculturalist.” one who cultivate the ague. Fox false teeth could bite?” Heb-yes! A FAMILIAR PROCEEDING. Casey (just over)—* Ot'm (hic) from Ccrk, officer.”” Orricer: VARIOUS -*Heavens! who'd have thought that Etymology—ur-rum !—the derivation of Somehow or other L’pear to have got a small, half-accidental, Frrinstance, the word I guess it comes from + agra,’ the ague, an’ ‘culto,’ therefore, a farmer who makes a business of havin’ Then we have the word education, the head, an’*ductum,’ to duck ; meanin’ in plain English, or, at least, “Well, it won't be th’ firsht toime Oi've pulled a cork." ELEVATED Rait-Roapd OTHER SIGHTS — 2. Aunt Mary— Now, paw, tell me what New York looks like.” Uncte Henry——" Well, as near as kin cum to it, the city of York looks like a streak o greased lightnin’."” accordin’ to my Way of Jookin’ at it, that when a.young man’s « education goes to his hed an’ swells his egotism to the extent that he thinks he is called an’ elected to shun a plain but honest job payin’ wages that are fully as much as he is worth to anybody but himself; an* while he: is waitin’ to accept a congenial situat ion commensurate with his abilities, pick grammatical errors off'n his lumpy, rectangular old un- cle, who hore, if 1 must say it, the yn ata remu- * Aw, don't butt in! I'm through when I say that just about the that his education gets to afflictin® him that way he should take his head away out in the woods an’ duck it in some quiet pool till the ‘ego’ seeps out an’ a little horse-sense soaks in; ‘an’ also, while I think of it, that entomology ain't the only ‘ology that pertains to bugs. ‘These conclusions may be wrong an’ entirely out of etymological bias an‘ all that, but they are the best I can draw tion,” ith my limited educa- TOM P. MORGAN. from * ego,” NowADAyYs a man’s greatness depends less on his achievements than on the claims made for him by his biographer. Lani ee; c, a's Mr. Suss—''I see you are keeping a horse now. Do you find him useful?” ‘Mx. Huss—"* Well, I guess so. Why, how'd I go to mill for feed for him if | didn't have him 2” comicbooks.com