Judge, 1903-02-07 · page 14 of 24
Judge — February 7, 1903 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page contains five separate satirical vignettes mocking American social pretensions and rural-urban contrasts: **"A Winner"**: Marriage saves a man from bankruptcy through the dowry—satirizing marriages of convenience among the desperate wealthy. **"City Economies"**: A nephew shows his uncle an expensive hotel with a roof garden. The uncle notes they must grow vegetables since "they don't seem to have no yard"—mocking urban density and city dwellers' disconnection from farming. **"Where Rooms Are Expensive"**: A daughter brags about a suitor's compliments while her father recoils at the hotel bill—juxtaposing romantic flattery against financial reality. **"After the City Man's Coin"**: A rural guide deceives a city tourist into paying extra to shoot a lion by painting the family cat yellow—satirizing rural cunning exploiting gullible city visitors. **"Struck It Rich"** and other segments continue this pattern: foreign nobleman hotel workers, Missouri visitors asking naive questions, scribblers' wives writing novels. The overall theme: rural shrewdness versus urban naïveté and pretension, typical Judge satire targeting both groups.
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A WINNER. 66 PTIS marriage was a H failure, wasn'tit?” “Great smoke, ni It saved him from ban ruptcy.” CITY ECONOMIES. CHYES, uncle,” said Nephew John, who was showing the old gen- Uleman the sights, “this is one of the most com- plete hotels in the coun- try. It has every con- venience and attraction, STRUCK IT RICH. 66] KNOW old man Dunnley is rich, said the inquisitive friend, « but, I don’t sec how he’ can afford to keep his: family at the most expensive: hotels.” “It's not so expen- sive for him, after all,” J) said the knowing friend. “One of his. daughters married a foreign noble- man who used to work in. several of the hotels, and he gets Dunnley pro- and the proprietors have WHERE ROOMS ARE EXPENSIVE. fessional rates.” just finished one of the Daucnrer—"' He says my eyes are like limpid pools, pa."* Gnest: rook gardens: that Farner (sizing the hotel-bill)—'* Who does ? Davcurer—' That young man who was in the front room with me last evening, pa.” ALLS not gold thacs was ever constructed FATHER “ Roof-garden, eh 2” (l Mr. Meddergrass.* Wa-al, I s’pose: they have to have somewheres to raise their vegetables, an’ they don’t seem to have no yard at all to the place. AFTER THE CITY MAN’S COIN. His wire—* Josh Backlot. be yew loony? What yew paintin’ Tabby yaller fer?” Jos (the guide)—" Tew let her loose in the North Fork woods. Thet city chap what I'm guidin’ offered me ten dollars extry if he shot a mounting-lion, an’ | need the money.” HAD TO SHOW HIM. COWVHERE is that gentleman who came in from Missouri last night and asked so many que:tions about the golden gate 2" asked the landlord of the San Francisco hotel. “He sent out fora bottle of muriatic acid this morning and asked the most ¢ that pla clerk. Scribbler—* Con- found it, Maria! didn't I tell you not to let the baby touch anything on my desk 2” His wife— Well, you know I can't watch her all the time, Has she done any mischief? CERTAINLY: Scribbler —“\ should Orator—""Gentiamen, this trust evi must be discussed “#Y She has! She's writ- calmly! ten a historical novel. “Well, you tell him if he stays so late again Ill raid the pool-room.”” grub-staked. NEAR THE PALM-BEACH HOTEL. FLORIDA. Gtarys—"*He begged me to speak the word that would make him the happiest man on earth, so | said yes.”" Epirn—"" Dear girl! what does make you so contrary ?"* comicbooks.com