Judge, 1903-08-15 · page 2 of 16
Judge — August 15, 1903 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page combines satirical essays on culture with a domestic cartoon. The text discusses hammock literature—light summer reading—and dismisses it as unworthy serious consideration. The author argues good books transcend seasons and climate, contrasting quality literature with frivolous fare. The cartoon below depicts a woman (Mrs. Whiffletree) at a desk with a visitor (a man in a coat). She states she's afraid to be alone in New York, implying danger or vulnerability. The man's response—that if seen together, people would assume they knew each other—is a social commentary on appearance versus propriety in urban society. The humor relies on contemporary anxieties about reputation, unmarried women's independence, and city life circa early 1900s.
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FORE! At Tae Panxxn Burtpixc, FourTm AVENUE AND | Wesrexn Aovexriinc Ornece—828 Marguctte Bui'ding, Ohicage, WU. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IM ADVANCE. Ove copy, one year, of sznambers ss ar? One copyian monthwcrssmumbers = ee ee SS One copy, for thirteen weeks 27. OS NN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, Evnorean sates-acewts—Intermational News Coupany, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, F.C, Landes: Brentand!s, Avene del" Opera, Paris: Ss BS » Oar PUBLISHED WEEKLY NETERNTH STREET, New Youn. TERMS TO SUBSCRIDERS: Tocluding the Cwtisratas Junce, $6.0. year. ‘Sturdach's News Exchange, Ma The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright tn both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright wil be promptly and rigorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS must inclose a stamoed and self-aSdressed ertrelope with all manuscripts, other vise reter of the latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name ant address Torttten plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying Joke or descriptive letter-press should in every instance be written upon its indroidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inclosare of stamps to the full amoant of postage (3 also required, to insure safe and promot return of matertal not accepted. T IS the forbidden-fruit crop that is seldom, if ever, a failure. THE FACT that beauty, as we are told, is but skin deep should be a source of pleasure and comfort to the pachy- derm. ee EVEN THE most cruel and relentless fate is charitable to a certain extent, for when it condemns one to face the music It does not serve the kind of music peculiar to the so-called comic operas of to-day. ce F THERE CAN be music without sound, as some poet maintains, what a sweet and lovely symphony, interpre- tative of the moonlight of fancy and the moonshine of hope, is at the present writing softly rippling from the chaste and gentle spirit of David Peanut Hill. [TWILL BE a genuine blessing when the heated term comes to an end, if only for the reason that it will rid us of that variety of so-<alled literature which ts classed loosely under the head of hot-weather hammock- books. The book that is advertised as being quite the thing for the ham- mock cannot be much of a literary treat, for the simple reason that a book of sterling merit and quality cannot be confined to the hammock any more than it can to the barrel-top, the folding-bed, the soap-box, or the ptazz:1- steps. A good book does not depend upon any season, nor on any climatic ‘or meteorological conditions. It can be read and enjoyed the same in a thunder-shower or in a snow-storm, in a canoe or on an ice-boat. The self- it Ny i Hh Ds respecting hammock-maker should protest against the habit of associating his commodity with these mad dog-day books, which are enough to give the readers mental hydrophobia, for the simple reason that the hammock is a breezy couch in which standard literature may be enjoyed, and to the full, during the scorching summer on the honeysuckled porch, or during the howling winter in a studio. The hammock-book will never be worthy of serious consideration until it is worthy of the hammock. eee quis IS THE TIME of the year which is supposed to bring a respite from hard work to all persons, from the president of the United States to the humblest office-boy, if such a thing as an humble office-boy actually exists. They all hie them away to seashore or mountain for rest, and when they return they are usually on the verge of nervous prostration, owing to the various hardships and impositions which are heaped ruth- lessly upon them. There is the farm-table, for instance, decorated with grinning gargoyles of pot-cheese and rudely arabesqued with leathern cus- tard pie and rubber tea-biscuits, while the damask is murally decorated with scrambled eggs. These are the things that, in a different form, daily con- front our rusticating president. He has to face the pot-cheese of the office- hunter, the leathern custard pie of the adviser, and the rubber tea-biscuit of the autograph-fiend. His mental digestion will be practically ruined when his vacation is at an end. It is a pity that he cannot have some kind of an official preparation warranted to annihilate these human insects that refuse to be driven away by snubs and well-directed kicks. They swarm and continue to swarm at such a rate that the president will doubtless real- ize ere long that, if he would have a genuine rest, it will be necessary for him to fly from the ordeal through which he is now passing in the rural districts and go back to Washington and hard work. LOOKED EASIER. Mrs. Wnurrcerres—" Silas, | think if 1 went O New York with you them bunco men would let you alone."* Ma. Wuurrternee 'm afraid not, Jane. If they see me with you they'd know I wuz dead easy comicbooks.com