Judge, 1902-11-29 · page 4 of 20
Judge — November 29, 1902 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief satirical observations rather than a single unified cartoon. The main illustration depicts a ping-pong game, captioned "Accounted For" with dialogue about "an enthusiastic advocate of ping-pong Mr. Smasher." The text snippets offer social commentary on contemporary topics: volcanic eruptions of published books flooding the market; debate among Democrats on various issues (tariffs, philosophy); cigar smokers' anxieties about explosive cigars at Thanksgiving; and poultry delivery challenges in Germany versus America. The page's humor relies on topical references unclear without historical context—likely addressing early 1900s political debates, publishing trends, and domestic inconveniences. The ping-pong illustration appears a lighthearted visual joke about an unnamed "enthusiast," possibly mocking a contemporary figure or general social fad.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT THE JUDGE BUILDING, 110 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW TORE. Terms to Subscribers. UNITED STATES ANO CANADA JH ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year, or 52 numbers - - $500 Que copy. six months, of 29 mymbers °. "3.50 (Ove copy, or thir reeks ring the Cunestuas Jvnce, “POREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.00 a year, ‘Wesrexw Ornice—$28-829 Marguette Building, Chicago. International mews vy, Bream's building, Chancery ta Saermue de Opera, Parke: Saarkach's mevet tichange, Barns, The contents of JUDGE are protected by copyright ia both the Usited States ight will be pr vigoroasly presecated. inclose a stamped and self-addressed envelope with all wasuscripts, lable cansot be guaranteed. at should have the sender's fol: The accompanying joke or pon its ladividual picture, and NOT ps to the full amount of postage is also required. fo insure sate aed oroost retars of material not accepted. 1d Great Britain. HEN HEARST goes to Washington officially it will certainly be a yellow-letter day for congress. P TO going to press it could not be ascertained that ". any giant mind had conceived the idea that foot- IB pail is simply a pig-skin ames [7 WOULD te ered to make all good folks thank- ful if every bone of contention in this world were as happy as is the Thanksgiving wish-bone contention. SOME of the knowing ones who have always regard- ed old Uncle David B. Hill, politically, as a born genius are now beginning to regard him as belonging to the still-born variety. PERHaPS the porcine mother cherishes the not too fond ambition that each of her little ones may supply the pig-skin for which the greatest intellectual giants may contend on the gridiron. THE POSTMAN should be thankful to think that poultry cannot be sent by mail in this country, as in Germany. Otherwise his Thanksgiv- ing would be such as to cause him to be thankful when it has departed. THE OYSTER from the tossing sea, The chestnut from the rustling tree, Help out a noble plan When they, responsive to the dirk, Come oozing from the inner * turk,” To gild the inner man. eee LOOKED AT from a purely literary point of view, the great and unin- terrupted volcanic eruption of books that flood the market might be appropriately called the thousand and one nightmares. [F THE second joint may be considered a second joint in any sense other than anatomically, it is so close a second that it may always be success- fully played for a place on the race-track of epicurean prestige and hilarity. Ir MAY be sentiment, or it may be economic discernment, or both, or neither, that prompts the Dorcas-club woman to trim the gobbler’s car- cass with strands of Japanese silk, that it may shine and win favor as an artistic card-receiver. o deus: T MAY sound like sacrilege to utter a syllable in disparagement of any part of the turkey, and yet we will venture to say that the consensus of opinion among boarding-house experts is that we should all be thankful that the gobbler’s neck is not so long as that of the ostrich. eee THE VARIOUS VIEWS of the Democrats on anything, from the tariff to anything else upon which they may entertain views, might be called, without fear of contradiction, the fallacious reasoning and the meri- tricious philosophy which are the pillars of strength that uphold the De- mocracy. ALL EPICURES and lotos-eaters would do well to beware of the tobacco- trust cigar when it comes to that moment of supreme ecstasy that sees the Thanksgiving feast end in smoke. The post-prandial puff is always more harmonious when the weed is non-explosive. The smoker can never tell when the trust cigar is going to burst and gather his optic on the fly; and it may not be out of place to remark in passing that when his optic is out he will not find consolation enough to cheer him to any great extent in the refrigerated reflection that he did not know it was loaded. MORE lovely is the rose Than on the airy tree That in so chaste repose We rapturously see A-swinging in a dream, A jewel rich and rare, Upon the market beam— The gobbler’s boutonniére. thy ACCOUNTED FOR. “What an enthusiastic advocate of Lay hat Mr. Smasher is!" “Yes. He's a bric-a-brac dealer, you. kn comicbooks.com