Judge, 1902-10-18 · page 4 of 16
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This page appears to be a satirical story titled "He Was Hardened" rather than a political cartoon. It depicts a man captured by Native Americans who torture him through increasingly brutal means—crushing him between freight cars, dancing on him with daggers, and driving a pile through him—yet he survives and becomes emotionally hardened. The accompanying comic sections ("Judge's Favorites," "His Preference," "His Conjecture," "How It Looked," "Forever Debarred") feature unrelated domestic and social humor typical of Judge magazine's era. The Native American imagery reflects period attitudes toward Indigenous peoples as instruments of brutality. The story's "moral" about hardship building character was common turn-of-the-century American sentiment, though presented here through gratuitous violence and racial stereotyping that would be considered deeply offensive today.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. DOROTHY TENNANT. On Dorothy Tennant Delighted we gaze: ‘She gathers the pennant— To use a ball phrase Yes, all the star pageant ‘She heads with a whizz, And not a press-agent She needs in her biz. WANTED TO KNOW. Eminent politician (interrupted by the en- tance of rustic visitor, unannounced) —* Well, sir, what is it?” Honest rustic—*\ heerd tell thet you had a masheen here, an’ ez I'm consider‘ble intrested in masheens I thought mebbe, ef you wa‘n't too busy, you'd show me how yourn runs.” HE UNDERSTOOD. Passenger (in auto cab)— Why do you crawl along at this snail's pace? Don't you know, my man, that ‘time is money‘ ?" Auto-driver (grimly) I try to make good time I get fined five dollars.” Sure, sir, whenever Huh] HE WAS HARDENED. went out west to hunt squirrels and birds. N ONE there lived a man who freight-cars and crushed him for twenty minutes. HOW IT LOOKED. The corn-crop is beginning to move."" | thought so from the looks of my razor," (A Sable On a lonely road he was captured by a band of Indians, who said they composed the western branch of the society for the preven- tion of cruelty to the feathered tribe, and as he had brought no whiskey with him with which to square him- self they decided to punish him. Accordingly they put him between two HIS PREFERENCE. Hanx—" What! you say you'd sooner go to school than work on ” afarm? And what kind of a School would you like to go to?” Buu—" W'ot kind? Wry, I'd like ter go ter Bob Fitzsimmons's school uv physical culture.”* HIS CONJECTURE. Mr. Gotrox-—"* | well remember the time that | hadn't a shirt to my back." Launceror Gorrox—"' That must have been a hot old football game, pop. What‘ posish* dic you play?” But the man still lived. Then they threw-him down and danced fan- dangoes all over him. But the man rose happier than ever. Then they put him under a pile-driver, pum- meled him and knocked him around like a medi- cine-ball. But the man was as lively as ever and begged for more. He said it made him only a little homesick. Then it suddenly came to the red men that perhaps this individual was possessed of the devil, and they knelt down and worshiped him, Then they hurried off, and as the liberated man walked away he mumbled, “Had they known I was a Brooklynite and had crossed the Brooklyn bridge every night at six o'clock for ten years it would have saved them a great deal of humiliation.” Moral—Before tackling a man have him looked up by some mercantile agency. . F PrrzER. FOREVER DEBARRED. Lassitudinous Lemuel— Why was Weary refused membership in the brotherhood of ener- yated pilgrims ?” Peregrinating Paul—“ We discovered that he was born in Bath, Maine,”