Judge, 1902-11-15 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 15, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humorous sketches and poems satirizing turn-of-the-century American life. **"Judge's Favorites"** features Augusta Gloss, a character known for witty remarks about high society. **"Dominie Dought's Trust"** is a dialect poem mocking rural speech patterns and religious hypocrisy. **"The Curio-Collector"** dialogue jokes about an Irishman selling scrap wood as antiques to wealthy collectors—satirizing both nouveau-riche gullibility and immigrant entrepreneurship. **"In the New York Stock-Exchange"** cartoon depicts the chaos of stock trading, with a caption mocking Wall Street's frenzy: the uncle's amazement that "stocks are worth thousands of dollars" reflects contemporary anxiety about speculative wealth. The page's humor targets class pretension, immigrant stereotypes, and financial speculation typical of Gilded Age satire.
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DOMINIE DOUGH'’S TRUST. IREACHIN’ eb'ry Sunday mawnin’ At de ringin’ ob de bell. Bredderin, please ter recomember Dat collecshuns am whad tell. Sunday-school come arter dinner ; Preachin’ come at eb'nin'.time. Sistahs ob de sewin’ S'rosis, Doan’ fo'git ter fotch a dime. Pastah’s poah fund Monday eb’nin’— Conterbushons tuck all day. Doan’ fo'git ter s'prise de pastah When yo’ passin’ down his way. Prah-meetin’ come eb'ry We'n'sday— Hope ter sce yo! all come in. Fill yer scuttles up ter brimmin'— Debil lub a empty bin. Bredderin, doan’ put up yo'r treasuahs Whar de moth corrupt an’ rust. Plant de “long-green™ sho’ an’ stead fas — Come an’ jine de pastah’s trust. A REASONABLE DEDUCTION. 66 QNE-HALF of the world,” I say to my wise friend, “doesn’t know how the other half lives.” “Then,” concludes my wise JUDGE'S FAVORITES. friend with an air of deliberation, AuoUSTA cLose. “one-half the world hasn't any neigh- Whene'er you make the old bors.” Piano gayly talk In syllables of gold, UNDERSTOOD ISINESS. Without a break or balk, on BS ee _ AWFUL HABITS. 4 Lady customer—» Those threes Farmer Scupver—'‘I s'pose them New Yorkers are a purty frisky It murmurs, full of glee, don't look as if they would fit, lot o' sports?" igs M | You are, of all the show, and yet I've always worn them be- Farmer Serteck (just back)—" Frisky? Well, say! I didn't get ‘The life and melody, y back to my hotel one night till arter nine o'clock, an’ they hadn't got ‘Augusta, don't you know. fore. th’ doors locked shen.”* Clerk —" Fault of the trusts, madam—saving leather so that all the threes to-day are smaller than the children’s sizes, Just try on this seven, which is really smaller than the threes used to be.” SHE SHORTENED THEM. ‘¢PROFESSOR BEENS is awful tiresome —his sentences are THE CURIO-COLLECTOR. always so long.” ++} LELLO, Pat" said a gentleman in the white-house grounds as he met an Irishman bearing away an “But his wife is splendid. She armful of bits of old wood. “Gathering fuel for the winter?" continually int mutes them.” rupts and thus com- “No, sor,” answered Pat with an air of importance. “Shure, I am afther gettin’ it to sell to thim curious collecthors.” IN THE NEW YORK STOCK-EXCHANGE, Cry wepnew—“ This is the stock-exchange, uncle. The seats here are worth thousands of dollars,"” Unctt Waveack—"'Oh, is that it? 1 was Jest wonderin’ why ev'rybody was standin’ up." comicbooks.com