Judge, 1903-03-21 · page 4 of 16
Judge — March 21, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short humorous pieces and illustrations typical of early-20th-century Judge magazine: **"A Stickler for Custom"** depicts a master plumber criticizing his young apprentice for completing work too efficiently and neatly—lacking the traditional messiness associated with plumbers. The joke satirizes how established tradespeople maintain poor standards as a point of professional pride. **"Jack in the Pulpit"** and **"Of No Avail"** are brief anecdotal humor pieces about clergy and public discourse, poking fun at clerical authority and political rhetoric. The remaining items—"First Aid," "The Strenuous Life," and "A Constant Reminder"—are short domestic humor vignettes about everyday situations (accidents, marriage dynamics, family life). The page primarily offers light social satire rather than political commentary.
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A STICKLER FOR CUSTOM. AGHAST. the master plumb- er views the work of his subordinate. The bungling youth has gone about his work ot repairing a leak as if it were the sim. plest thing in the world. He has not scattered tools all over the premises, neither has he clut- tered up the floor with odd pieces of piping while he absented himself for two days at a dollar an hour. Great balls of fire!” yells the master plumber.“ Have you no regard for profes- sional ethics? Will you never learn anything 2" AN OPENING FOR A NEW MAGAZINE. Seizing an axe and a hammer, he smashes the plastering from the wall and wrenches ten feet of pipe loose, permitting the escaping water to flood the dwelling. With deft, steady strokes he tears up the floor of two rooms and drops a pair of ten-pound pincers into a cloisonne vase in the room beneath. here!" he says with a sigh of relief and satisfaction. That looks more work- JUDGE'S FAVORITES. manlike, any way.” MELEN BERTRAM IN ‘PRINCE OF PILSEN." * Oh, won't | be lucky,”* remarked the rosebud, “ If right from this tree to the city I scud, To shine in the bunch all agleam and aglow: For one frisky elf that all connoisseurs know Is ever the fairest of all the stars—but You'll see it yourself by consulting the cut.” OF NO AVAIL. SOYVE MUST stand up for our street-cars!" shouts the orator at the meeting called to formulate a pro- test against the overcrowding of passengers on the lines of transportation. “We do stand up,” cries a litle man in a hack seat, * but we don’t git ‘em !" JACK IN THE PULPIT. Reporter—" Goot-night, sir. Lam very much obliged for the copy of your sermon.” Distinguished clergyman—" You are quite welcome. Now, I shall be out of town the day after you publish it, so it will save time if you take this letter with you. It is to your paper and denies the accuracy of your report of the sermon. Please print it the day after you publish that Good-night.” THE ONLY WAY. Guest —" Any danger of fire in this hotel 2" Bext-bov (with his teeth chattering)—** N-not unless yer pay extra fer it.” FIRST AID. fell from the window yesterday, and she saw it fall.” « Awful! What did she do?” “Sent the nurse and the butler out at once to pick it up.” “THE STRENU- OUS LIFE.” Pathmaster Hay- field —"Thet Ike Rushmore 's a push- in’ kind uv a feller.” Deacon Doolittle — Wa-al, mebbe so; but it ‘pears to me a Z Y he’s like a dog on a A CONSTANT REMINDER. powerchurn— plenty Mrs. Jones—‘ If I should die would you ever forget me?”* ug motion,.but urn Mx. Jones—‘'! think not. The doctor says my dyspepsia fs Incurable.”* little progress. was comicbooks.com