Judge, 1902-10-11 · page 7 of 16
Judge — October 11, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical cartoons and jokes typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Triumph"**: A bettor boasts about wagering that the New York baseball team would finish last—and winning. The joke mocks overconfidence in sports predictions. **"Getting the Drop on Him"**: An aspiring poet pitches verses to an editor, who dismisses him by saying he's "dropped clear through"—a pun suggesting the poet failed completely. **"The Mendicant Class"**: A tourist asks about poverty; the native complains about "forty-seven summer boarders"—wealthy seasonal visitors are presented as a parasitic class draining the rural community. **"A Rural Fancy"** and **"A Little Too Much"**: Domestic humor about absent-minded daydreaming and overly sentimental wives preserving wedding-day shoes. **"A Rural Fancy"**: Commentary on romanticizing rural life while fantasizing about city food (corned beef and cabbage). The page reflects Judge's focus on class commentary, failed ambitions, and domestic satire aimed at middle and upper-class readers.
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‘TRIUMPH. WHAT sets my gladness in a whirl and makes my litle topknot curl? It’s not the band that's passing by ; it's not the huckleberry pie That now within me swift gyrates and bids defiance to the fates. It's simply this, it’s simply this, that quite lets loose my perfect bliss And all my gilt-edge vim uncorks: I bet my cash on the New Yorks— I bet last spring that they would be right in the last place, don't you see! GETTING THE DROP ON HIM. Spenser Spacer (presenting a sonnet)—" You see, I drop into poetry occasionally.” Editor Gradgrind (grimly)—" You seem to have dropped clear through.” Mrs. Suav—"'I can't understand why some women make such a fuss about embroidered stock- ings.” A RURAL FANCY. [ HOOK spon the dreamy cow ‘That's dining with the sheeplet, five-cent cigar T take a little peeplet. At once my fancy quickly turns From this old mundane grab To pleasant and delightful thoug! Of good corned beef and cabbage. BY TROY WEIGHT. se] TELL you,” said the stranger, « the coal problem has grown to be a very serious one in our town “It is everywhere,” said the native. “Tknow; but in our town you can't get an ounce of it unless you have a pre- THE MENDICANT CLASS. Tourist—"‘ Is there much poverty in this village at the present time?" penn Narive—“' Loads uv it. Why, thar's forty-seven summer boarders between here an’ Hog’s Neck alone.” —_ scription. A LITTLE TOO MUCH. Gotoneim—'* My vife is very sentimental. She has preserved der old shoes dot were flung after us at our vedding.”” Urrensero—'* 13 dot so? I vouldn't eat "em—I'd make her donate dot preserve to a church-fair or someting like dot."" comicbooks.com