Judge, 1903-06-13 · page 4 of 16
Judge — June 13, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several unrelated humorous sketches typical of Judge magazine's satirical format. **"Reasonable Guess"**: A dialogue joke about vaccination marks on arms, with a photograph of a performer (labeled "Judge's Favorites: Bonnie Maginn") in theatrical costume. **"It Was Good"**: A cartoon of two anthropomorphic fish discussing something going "down the pike." **"In the Jungle"**: A narrative joke about a monkey, lightning-bug, and fire, illustrated with a detailed jungle scene drawing. **"An Unreasonable Request"**: A brief dialogue between Mr. Hardhat and a clerk about vacation requests. **"If Slang Were Exact"**: A photo sequence showing a character demonstrating literal interpretation of slang expressions, with accompanying dialogue attempting exact phonetic spelling of colloquial speech. The page reflects early-to-mid 20th-century American humor emphasizing wordplay, visual gags, and everyday social situations.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. BONNIE MAGINN, Oh, we love to sit and listen to the music gay and free Of your pedals as they ripple like the moonbeams on the sea: And its of the glad roof-garden, over which the zephyr blows, That you are the very finest and divinest fairy rose. IN THE JUNGLE. SOYVHAT started the fire in the underbrush by the swamp last night?” asked the tiger of the monkey. “1 don’t exactly know,” said the monkey ; “but I uaderstand that the lightning-bug ignited the tapir.” And then the monkey went up a tree, not desiring to buck the tiger. AN UNREASONABLE REQUEST. Mr, Hardfist— Well, what do you want?” Quilldriver (his clerk)—" I thought I'd like to ask for a vacation, sir” — Mr. Hardfist—“ Vacation? Why, you've been away for a month sick and ain't able to do your work now, and yet you come and ask for a vacation. No, sir!" REASONABLE GUESS. 6¢Q)H. MAMMA!" O said little Frances, “I know why some people wear crape on their arms.” Why, Frances?” + “To show where they are vaccinated.” THE REASON. First: mosquito— “Are you going to Mudville-on-the-bog this summer ?” Second mosquito —"Oh, no; we're bar- red out. Their aa- vertisements read, No mosquitoes.’ IT WAS GOOD. Mr. Cop—*' What do you think of that stuff ?"" Mr. Pixe—"' Greatest thing that ever went down the pike.” his he + en HOW HE KNEW. Jes’ kem from Hickory Corners. They hed a ‘splosion in Hi Holler’s grocery thar last Hiram— Wa-al, | want tew know! How did it happen, Si?” Si—" Wa-al, all'l_ know ‘bout it, Hiram, is what I got from the brother of Ezry Jones's wife's cousin, an’ he got it from one o' them there travelin’ men; an’ from what he told Ez an’ Ez told me, it seems some ornery pusson—they don't know who—dropped a lighted match in the gun-powder tea.”* IF SLANG WERE “Well, yer see, ter fling de out-curve yer grasp de ball betwixt de first an’ second finger an’ de thumb: den wid a swing uv de trusty right an’ a snap ‘uv de wrist "—— Ferpinano—"* Aw, go’on! You're— —twisted!” comicbooks.com