Judge, 1903-05-23 · page 10 of 18
Judge — May 23, 1903 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief comedic pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines: **"A Bit of Color"** mocks naive idealism—an artist painting a modern youth uses only green pigment, suggesting the subject sees the world through rose-tinted (or in this case, green) glasses, believing everything beautiful and truthful. **"A Satisfactory Reason"** satirizes labor disputes, showing strikers whose grievance isn't wages or hours but disrespect—the boss didn't remove his hat during negotiations, a violation of workplace dignity. **"The Germ Theory"** jokes about scientific pretension: a woman applies germ-theory logic to silk, demanding proof it's been "boiled and filtered," missing the salesman's obvious point. **"Worked Too Well"** is domestic humor: a wife's efforts to improve her husband through good cooking backfire when her heavy biscuits cause digestive distress. The multi-panel comic at bottom shows a tightrope walker crashing spectacularly on a bicycle—demonstrating that his former skill doesn't transfer to new situations. These represent Judge's typical gentle satire of American social conventions and human folly.
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A BIT OF COLOR. AN ARTIST took his colors To paint a medern youth Who thought the world all beauty And thought all language truth. He got his canvas ready To hold the pleasing scene, Then carefully discarded Each pigment save the green. WiLLiaM J. LAMFTON. A SATISFACTORY REASON. Firs picket—» What's this strike about, any way— more pay, less work? What's it for?" Second picket—" Nah! ‘The boss didn’t take his hat off or take his cig’ outen his mouth when de walkin’ delegate went in ter see him.” ‘THE GERM THEORY. HE lady scientist pursues her way through the department-store. Stopping at the silk counter, she looks over the stock. At last she finds a piece of goods that strikes her eye. “Tshould like to have a dress-pattern off that,” she says. “Can you guar- antee the goods ?” WORKED TOO WELL, THERE was a loving lite wife Who tried the worthy plan Of bettering her husband's life : She fed his inner man, That she had reached his inner man ‘There soon remained no doubt. Her biscuits—first of all her plan— Near turned him inside out. BY ELIMINATION. ¢4]S SPACECUT a capable editor “He can get the good out of an article more com- pletely than any other editor Lever worked under.” PROPERLY LAUNCHED. sOYES,” says the proud mother, “if Ido say it myself, there isn’t another girl in society who has been so thoroughly schooled and who has enjoyed so many of the preliminary advantages. She has had the appendi- citis, has spent two years in a rest-cure, has gone on six sea-trips for exhaustion, has FORTUNATE. had seven attacks of nerv- 1e way, have any luck with your vegetable garden this year?" Susunsanrre—"* Great ‘over two weeks" work on “Oh, yes, indeed, ma‘am,” says the salesperson. finest piece of watered silk we have in the store.” “ [know it is watered silk,” replies the lady scientist ; “but has it about to make her début I see no reason why she should not become a been boiled and filtered 2” ‘A cyclone blew it over into the next county before I'd wasted US _Prostration, has been written up in the papers as about to elope with the “That is the — coachman, and has been proposed to by ten foreign musicians, and eight noblemen have looked her up in the financial agencies. Now that she is great favorite, if complete preparation has anything to do with it.” THE EX-TIGHT-ROPE WALKER'S KNOWLEDGE CAME IN GOOD—A GOOD FINISH TO A BAD START. comicbooks.com