Judge, 1903-08-15 · page 7 of 16
Judge — August 15, 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge's humor: **"The Principle of the Julep"** mocks Southern gentlemen and their elaborate mint julep recipes. A Kentucky Major explains that each ingredient (water, sugar, mint, whiskey) masks the previous one's unpleasantness—a joke about the drink's true purpose being alcohol consumption disguised by pretension. **"His Romance"** plays on the cliché of meeting a Mexican woman "in the Alamo" during the famous 1836 battle, then divorces her. The punchline "From Alamo to Alimony" is a crude rhyme mocking matrimonial misadventure. The other brief jokes mock rural dialects ("watahmillyun" for watermelon), New York City sophistication, and farm laborers' lack of wages. The cartoons use exaggerated ethnic/regional accents and stereotypes common to early-20th-century American humor, reflecting contemporary attitudes toward rural Southerners, immigrants, and working classes.
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‘THE PRINCIPLE OF THE JULEP. JAJOR,” asks the northern visitor of Major Sho:enfust of Clay Corners, Kentucky, * what is the theory of the mint juiep? I have heard that it is a pleasant drink, but what is the reason for its different ingre- dients 2” “Well, suh, it’s simple as shootin’ a man across the valley. Yo" see, fust yo’ have to use watah as a basis; then yo’ put in some sugah to hide the fluidity of the watah; then yo’ put in the mint in ordah to mollify the unpleasant taste o' the sugah an’ watah; an’ lastly, yo" covah it with whiskey, so that the flavoh of the othah ingredients may be propehly disguised.” HIS ROMANCE. AS THE exchusband leaves the court-room with his attorney, having bade farewell to his ex-wife and offered to share the expense of having her divorce decree framed, he says, “There's material for a good story in my matrimonial carce’ “No doubt," responds the attorney. “ Your ex-wife is a Mexican, is she not?” “Yes; I met her in the Alamo.” “Good! Write the story and give it the title of ‘From Alamo to Alimony." a “THE APPLE OF HIS EYE." aaa cd | | yopyn 1 PATRIOT “ts ONE PLEASURE GONE, |"ou —é s6] SUPPOSE, Miss Rambo,” said the caller, that your father fecls much happier now that he has been cured of his “heumatism.” “Well,” explained the young lady, “he feels better when he realizes that he does not have to suffer any more; but he fecls pretty bad when he remembers how exactly he usi:l to be able to fore- tell the weather.” WORTH WHILE, IT WAR fo" jest a measly apple Dat our parents fell frum grace. Ef it war a watahmillyun "Twould 'a’ bin a differ’nt case. NO USE FOR ONE. New Yorker—" Why are you looking so curi- ously at this map?" Stranger— Because I can’t find my way with- out looking at it.” : New Yorker— Not find your way? I have HIS DUE. Port—" My wife sald if you accepted this poem I'd get a swelled h lived in this city for forty years and have never had Eprror—"" Oh, you'll get that any way. Johnny, bring me the axe! use for a map. WHAT HE RAISED. ‘Traur—'* What does your employer raise on dis farm?" Faru-tano—'* Everyt'ing but salaries.”” comicbooks.com