Judge, 1902-10-04 · page 4 of 20
Judge — October 4, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains editorial commentary and a cartoon titled "The Difficulty." The cartoon depicts a farmer attempting to photograph his farm work while children interfere, making the task impossible—a visual pun on the challenge of "catching" or documenting rural labor. The editorial commentary addresses contemporary political and social topics, including references to Bryan (likely William Jennings Bryan), Democrats, popcorn prices, and financial philosophy. The pieces employ characteristic Judge satire: witty observations about politics, economics, and American life. Without specific dates or clearer visual identification of caricatured figures, the exact political targets remain somewhat unclear, though the tone suggests commentary on turn-of-the-century American politics and economics. The magazine's satirical approach targets both public figures and general social absurdities.
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DRAWINGS and all coatribetions seat to the Art Departwest shoold have the seader's ful: od every separate sketch. The accompanying joke or descriptive letter-press should in every instance be writtes upaa its individual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip . laclosare of stamps to the full amovat of postage is also required, to iesare safe and ‘of material not accepted. JUTUMN ’s on deck; in golden sandals now She skips and capers through the rustling fields. Her draperies play jiglets in the wind That whistles through the whiskers of the corn, The leaf-befreckled fingers of the dusk Throw frost gems on the blooms that linger still Beside the pond and on the upland slope, Where pirouettes the taurine quadruped. The pop-corn pops; the doughnut, rampant now, Thumps on the bosom of its tambourine, While in’a dream we see the leathern disk Of joy and woe, yclept the buckwheat cake. The apple ’s red upon the bending bough; The rose is on its uppers; and the pig, That dances in the gloom crepuscular, Is drifting into juicy sausagehood. The crow above the thicket idly drifts; The hound is barking in the rabbit’s wake; ’Tis all these facts that cause us to uplift Our toot and say, ‘* The rosy autumn ’s here.”” eee VEN the actor’s fur-lined overcoat, without which he could not be an actor, offers him no real comfort against the special frost which is his. DPasetlivoad ~N 'HOUGH a thin bird or a fat bird, We are sure the rasping cat-bird, While a shy bird And a pie-bird, In no sense is quite a hat-bird. THE POP of the popcorn is heard in the land. ALTHOUGH time flies, the teeth of time would require special wing- power if they should ever be pitted against the quick lunch of to-day. WILDFIRE would be a spreader from Spreadville if it could only spread half as swiftly as a scandal spreads, especially when the said scan- dal has no foundation in fact. WITH the exception of the average long-headed Democrat, no one should be greatly alarmed or worried over the fact that the air is said to be full of Bryan and rumors of Bryan. cee THE NOVELIST of the time who would grace his title-page with a name that breathes the thrilling spirit of true romance must borrow the same either from a linen collar or a breakfast cereal. N ORDER that the element of danger may be jncreased and the game rendered more exciting, it is rumored that the public is to be treated this fall to the novel spectacle of football played in automobiles. eee FTER ALL is said on the subject, it may be put down as a husk of sound financial philosophy that the chief use of money is to enable him that has it to keep away from the people from whom he could not keep away if he did not have it. a THE AVERAGE hand-shaking politician, putting on all the tomantic statuesqueness of a white-haired statesman in a hotel lobby, reminds us very forcibly of a squash which, having struck a heroic attitude in the pie of pies, fondly fancies that it is some pumpkins. THE LILY having vamoosed the mere, and the sheep-nose pippin having flashed upon the scene, a comet of jigful joy, is it not about time for the long-headed, far-sighted disciple of Epictetus, who appears every au- tumn for this special purpose, to come forth from his shell and tell us just how the New Yorks are sure of winning the pennant next year? Though not the equal of this profound augur, we trust that we may not offend him when we say that it is our honest opinion that the New Yorks always remind us of lightning, for the peculiar reason that they are, at least in one respect, quite the opposite of it. While lightning is said never to strike twice in the same place, the New Yorks never fail to strike in the same place, which latter is the last place. It may also be fair to say that, while the New Yorks are last, they are also least. “ THE DIFFICULTY. Miss Kaura Feeno—'‘I'd like to take a ‘photo’ of your farm-hand at work.” Farner Brown—"‘ All right—ef yew kin spare the time."* : Miss Kawra Feen>—‘Oh, this camera will catch him in just one-twentieth of a second.”” Farmer Brown—"* Yes; but It'll take ye two hours tew ketch him workin’."* comicbooks.com