Judge, 1903-04-18 · page 5 of 20
Judge — April 18, 1903 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple Easter-themed satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor. **Main Cartoons:** 1. **"An Easter Reflection"** – A poem mocking fathers' financial burden from Easter expenses (new hats, eggs, celebrations). 2. **"Discouraging"** – A farmer feeds hens laundry bluing to produce blue Easter eggs, killing them instead—satirizing misguided economy. 3. **"Sistah Johnsing Makes a Hit"** – A dialect-heavy piece featuring a Black church member decorating Easter eggs. This represents period racism through exaggerated speech patterns, though the "hit" suggests she's competent despite stereotyping. 4. **"Equality"** – Class commentary: A child asks if everyone equals in heaven; mother replies "yes"—except there won't be automobiles. This satirizes automobile-ownership as a status symbol dividing the wealthy from others. 5. **Various short jokes** about egg trusts, Niagara stunts, and slavery's monetary value—the last reflecting post-Civil War discussions about enslaved people as economic commodities. The page reflects early 1900s concerns: consumerism, Easter commercialism, class divisions, and lingering racial attitudes.
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AN EASTER REFLEC- TION. THE poets sing in lilting verse About fair Amaryllis ; They rhyme about her hat and gown, And do the same with Phyllis. But I would sing the flattened purse ‘That meets the hat bacillus. Poor father! —he of sigh and frown— He knows just what the bill is. * DISCOURAGING. - The farmer's daughter —" Why does father look so discouraged ?" The farmer's wife— “Because all the hens will have to be buried. He want- ed to save trouble in filling that order for the eight dozen blue Easter eggs, and he fed the hens with laundry blu- ing.’ SISTAH JOHNSING MAKES A HIT. +4] RECKON," said Deacon Snowball, “dat Sistah Susie Jane Johnsing is erbout de mos’ artisticallis’ woman inde chu'ch, She hab charge ob dyein’ de Eastah aigs, an’ she paint sum ob dem laik Peneurn STAN baw, HIS ESTIMATE, GHE called her husband to ob serve Her dainty Easter bonnet. “It is a poem,” she declared ; “A ballad or a sonnet.” “Tt does not seem," he gruffly said, “<A sonnet or a ballad. Tt only needs a dash of oil To imitate a salad.” MATTER OF PROTEC TION. 66] SEE,” said the man who reads the papers, “that a great egg trust is being tormed.” es," said the other man. “1 suppose most of the stock will be taken by actors.” THE DIFFERENCE. Sneedles—" 1 see a man Proposes to cross Niagara on a wire, swinging by his teeth.” Gotham—* That's noth- ing. I travel all the way from the city hall to Harlem twice a day hanging from a leather strap.” THEIR WORTH. 66VES," said the man from Georgia reminiscently, ACCOUNTED FOR. watahmilyuns, an’ sum ob co FOR: ait pe LE remember the time when licewesteo:’ . Mrs. Youncuussano—"' Did you know that | might have married Tom Goodacre ?"” ea wiltent z dem laik sweeten ‘taters, an Mr. Youncnuseand— Er-—no: but | have noticed he looks thankful every time S!aVes were worth three thou sum ob dem she made jes’ he sces me.” sand dollars a head. laik er ‘possum dat’s all wrop- “Oh, that’s nothin ped up erbout hese’f. An’ sho'ly dey ain't nevah bin sech er outflow sneered the New York sexton. «What do you suppose the sla ob de sperrit as dey is dis Eastah-time in ouah chu'ch.” AS fashion in my church were worth per head on Easter ?” OY Pyte- Fa aia f EQUALITY. * Mamma, will everybody be just as good as anybody else in heaven ?"” MorHer— Yes, dear. There will be no autos there. * comicbooks.com