Judge, 1903-02-14 · page 4 of 16
Judge — February 14, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple short humorous sketches and poems rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **"A Love-Test"** and **"His Wife's Bread"**: Domestic humor about marriage and cooking. **"Bitter, Indeed"**: A sketch about Puddleford Suggs taking quinine pills—general comedic narrative without political reference. **"An Apprentice Hand"** and **"The Feminine Way"**: Domestic/gender-based humor about household matters and clothing. **"Why She Turned"** and **"Why He Was Absent"**: Social satire about everyday behavior—a woman distracted by store fires; a child's school excuse. **"Her Success"**: Brief dialogue joke about marriage and money. The page is primarily entertainment-focused rather than political satire. The drawings illustrate domestic and social situations typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American life, with humor targeting universal human foibles rather than specific political figures or events.
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A LOVE-TEST. HE says she loves the art of song, And sings and sings the whole day long ; Yet if she loved it she'd refrain And never sing a note again. HIS WIFE'S BREAD. I believe that half a loaf is better than no bread Towne—“ Hm! Guess you never tasted my wife's bread.” BITTER, INDEED. Se AHAT® cried Titherington Blotts, seaping into the presence of Puddiford Suggs, the villain ; “aha! the time has come. Now, prepare for a bit- ter reckoning !" With a manifest shudder, Puddiford Suggs nerved himself for the ordeal. + Titherington Blots drew from his pocket a cu- rious oblong box, removed the lid, and poured out a A LONG STRETCH OF number of small tab COUNTRY. With trembling fingers Puddiford Suggs enumerated the tablets, muttering to him- A bitter reckoning, indeed! These quinine pills are the last of the estate self the whil JUDGE'S FAVORITES. MAUDE LAMBERT IN “WHEN JOHNNY COMES MAKCHING Home.” As the crocus through the snow Beams serenely, don't you know, You keep shining through the white- Whiskered fancy day and night Of the ancient chap aglow Whose thin hirsute 's like the snow. A 'PRENTICE HAND. Se THAT man you had doing some carpenter work is a fraud.” “How do you know? He did good work.” “That may be; but he’s no carpenter. He cleared up the mess he made. THE royal housekeeper found King Midas in the cellar weeping golden tears, that were rattling down on the floor like hail. “Good master!” cried she, “what is the mat- ter?” “ Alack, alack !” cried the unlucky king, “It THE: FEMININES WAY: was dark down here, nad I have put my hand in the “Ethel, where are the trousers that go with this cutaway coat?” coal-bin by mistake. “Don't you see that vase on the table, dearle? There they are.” WHY SHE TURNED. REATHLESSLY Lot, his wife, and family were hastening to the tall timber. Behind them they could hear the crackling of flames, the roar of fiery clouds, and the crash of falling build- ings. Mrs. Lot suddenly stopped. “ Hurry on!” advised Lot.“ What are you stopping for ?* just wondered,” said Mrs. Lot, “how many of the stores would be hav- ing fire sales next week.” Then, absent-mindedly, she turned to sce if the flames were anywhere near the big department stores. The rest of the story is history. HER SUCCESS. «So she married and did ’ She gets twenty- WHY HE WAS ABSENT. five dollars a week now ‘Little boy, why are you skating on that pond? Is there no school to-day?” Maude—« Pin-money 7 “Oh, yeth, sir; but I god sugh a cold id my head I cad go, sir." Annie—" No; alimony. comicbooks.com