Judge, 1903-08-22 · page 4 of 16
Judge — August 22, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several distinct pieces of light humor rather than political satire: **"Same Old Ringer"** and **"Said the Old Salt"** are comedic dialogues about shipboard life—one involves passengers hearing strange sounds during an airship journey; the other concerns a woman's sore foot and laundry mishaps. These are gentle, domestic humor pieces. **"Judge's Favorites"** presents a sentimental poem about moonlit dancing. **"Couldn't Do It Up"** is a brief joke about laundry service incompetence. The bottom feature, **"The Realistic Artist's Visitor Ruins the Realistic Painting,"** is a six-panel comic strip showing an artist's work being progressively destroyed by a clumsy visitor—purely slapstick humor with no political content. Overall, this page focuses on everyday comedy rather than social or political commentary.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. ETHEL HULMA, ‘The moonlight dancing on the lake, with lilies all agleam, Can dance not quite a little bit be- side the airy way You kick and caper round and round until we fondly dream We live in an Arabian night that makes us more than gay. ‘Then kick away, blithe damosel, of all the blooming pick, And while you whirl we'll linger, rapt upon joy's billow-top, And when you'd like to see the way that we can up and kick In all your evolutions come unto a sudden stop, THE man who won't stop to think seldom saves time by being in a hurry. SAME OLD RINGER. UR air-ship having attained an unusual altitude, we are both interested and entertained by the strange sounds floating to us from the circumambient ether. “I presume,” says one of the passengers, who has all along bored us by his attempt at being witty ; “I presume that faint ding- donging we hear is from the gongs of the milk-wagons hurrying down the milky way.” “No,” says the captain rather gruffly, «That's Saturn's rings.” SAID THE OLD SALT. ‘6MY FOOT is asleep,” the young woman complained who had been induced to sit in an uncomfortable position while the yacht was on a long tack. “I thought so,” answered the old salt at the tiller. I noticed some time ago that your toes turned in.” COULDN'T DO IT UP. S¢}JAVE you done up my shirt yet?" asked the patron of the laundry. “It is just out of the ironing room,” answered the clerk, and we will have it done for you now, so that you may take it along with you.” “All right. I hope it has had better luck than the last one I had done up here.” “ Better luck ?” A GOOD STARTER. The girls are to have ‘ running-races" this afternoon.” What does the starter start them with—a pistol ?”” “Oh, no. He simply yells * Mouse!" “Yes, You did it up so completely in the ironing room that it wasn’t worth doing up in the bundle.” THE REALISTIC ARTIST'S VISITOR RUINS THE REALISTIC PAINTING. comicbooks.com