Judge, 1903-10-17 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 17, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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**Top Section - "Judge's Favorites":** This features actress Bertha Gallard with a poetic tribute calling her "the star of stars." The accompanying sketch shows a theater scene where a professor evaluates a woman's dress as "Paris natural"—suggesting debate about whether her fashionable attire is genuinely Parisian or merely an imitation. The satire mocks both theater-goers' obsession with fashion details and pretensions about continental sophistication. **Bottom Section - "The Dachshund Who Tied Himself Into a Knot":** Four sequential cartoons depict a dachshund's increasingly contorted positions, playing on the breed's characteristically long body. The accompanying dialogue about wages and necessities suggests this is satirizing economic concerns or labor disputes of the era, using the dog's physical mishaps as visual metaphor for social entanglement.
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HIS IDEA OF IT. AT THE theatre the ladies are discussing the attire of those about them, as sual. By and by their attention is attracted to a lady who is the central figure of a box-party. “Isn’t she stunning?” mur- murs one of the fair ones. “She is dressed in mauve satin, is she not?” “No, no!" cor- rects another of the ladies ; it is a pearl- gray satin.” “Now,” laughs another of them, «let us leave it to the pro- fessor, here. What has he to say of it? What is she dressed professor?" Here the profes- sor, who has been studying the sights and scenes with all the interest of a sa- vant, takes a casual glance at the object of the discussion and ventures, “A's nearly as I can judge from here, she is dressed in puris naturalibus.” Whereat they laugh, thinking he refers to peau de soie, or some such fabric, and has merely made one of the numerous blunders which | are common to the untutored man, Photo by Fah. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. BERTHA GALLAND. She is a precious star that's ever bright— A dazzling star that wasn't made to set; And so she shines, of all the galaxy, ‘The falrest in her twinkling loveliness. Ask all the critics, and they'll tell you so; Then go to him that sells the rose at just One dollar per, and he his hands aloft Will hold in fine financial rapture, which, If seen aright, will mean that this he thinks: “ Miss Bertha Galland is the star of stars— The blooming star that's all the stars In one."* FLOSSIE caught sight of a bale of excelsior and cried out, “Oh, mamma! here's a great big shredded-wheat biscuit.” PERHAPS NATIVE. Crerx—"' These tiger-skin rugs are two huntred dollars.”" Mrs. Yunomisses—" And are you sure they are ‘imported’ ?"* S¢\VHAT goes up must come down, you know.” “ With wages, yes; but not with coal and other necessa- ries of life.” THE DACHSHUND WHO TIED HIMSELF INTO A KNOT. comicbooks.com