Judge, 1903-01-03 · page 4 of 16
Judge — January 3, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several unrelated humorous items rather than political cartoons: **"Judge's Favorites"** lists women's names with associated cities—appears to be commentary on popular actresses or notable women of the era. **"An Achievement of Science"** satirizes medical innovation: a new boarder horrifies others by describing a surgical procedure where a patient's stomach and lungs were transposed. The joke mocks both the strangeness of modern medicine and the boarder's graphic, unsettling dinner conversation. **"What They Are Good For"** features practical jokes about galoshes/overshoes and their utility. **"A Bull Dozer,"** "Naturally," "January 2d, Two A.M.," and **"His Way"** are miscellaneous brief humorous sketches and one-liners typical of Judge's miscellaneous humor sections. These lack specific political or social references identifiable from the page alone.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES, AMELIA STONE IN “A CHINESE HONEYMOON,"” Cincinnati, Medford, Omaha, New York, Boston, Lynn, New Bedford, Philadelphia. Cork, Saccarappa, Guilford, Richmond, Quogue, Malone, Buffalo and Milford, Claim you as their own. And oh, artist clever, ‘Though fate madly balk, From these towns you'll never Homeward weary walk. NATURALLY. | S4GHE says that he is aman after her own heart.” “Then I suppose he will get it.” AN ACHIEVEMENT OF + SCIENCE. said the new boarder, who seems to resent the con- stant reappearance of the corned- beef hash, * where a man in Sche- nectady has had his stomach and lungs transposed by a surgical operation.” “How odd!" comments the landlady.“ What did they do to him?" « They put his stomach where his lungs were and his lungs where his stomach was,” explained the new boarder in cold, measured tones. “What a strange idea! I wonder why ?” “1 presume,” said the new boarder in flinty tones; I pre- HIS WAY. Teacher—" How do you spell ‘gnaw’ ?"" Schotar—"* N-I-t."" sBUOAY-KnvERT rem e ar WHAT THEY ARE GOOD FOR. First soy—‘ What kind of shoes do you call those ?"" Second vor—' Why, these are those extension soles. They certainly do keep your feet from the dampness."” sume he was a man who boarded, and they wanted to fix him so that the wind-pudding would agree with him whether he ate it or breathed it.” But the landlady merely tittered, and murmured that she hoped no one would forget that her rent would be due next Tuesday and overlook his account. JANUARY 2D, TWO A.M. GING a song of sixpence, a stomach full of “rye” Four-and-twenty key-holes dance before his eye. When the door is open his wife begins to chi “Isn't this a pretty hour to let a fellow i PHILOLOGY. RE'S a queer English name. How do you suppose it’s pronounced 2” “I don't know, but wrongly, I guess.” comicbooks.com