Judge, 1903-10-24 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 24, 1903 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several distinct pieces rather than a unified cartoon: **"Indian Summer"** and **"The Season"** are poems with an accompanying rural illustration showing two figures outside a cottage. **"Revised Shakespeare"** mocks a stage manager who, when asked to create something scientifically appealing, forces actors to recite facts about "microbes in stones, bacilli in running brooks, and germs in everything"—satirizing the era's obsession with germ theory and scientific "improvement" of culture. The lower illustration appears to depict theatrical or entertainment figures in an indoor scene, likely satirizing popular entertainment trends. **"Height of Popularity"** at bottom jokes about parody proliferation, suggesting something has become so popular it spawns numerous imitations. The page reflects late 19th/early 20th-century concerns about science, theater, and popular culture trends.
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WE KNOW "tis Indian sum- mer, For now, on hill and dale, Dame Nature dons her ware paint And goes upon the trail. Her stealthy, rustling footstep Is borne upon the breeze, And then we wake some morn- ing To find she scalps the trees. THE REASON. THE girl who had applied for a situation as cook looked me in the eye as I asked the question, Then she shrank. Her lips mov- ed as though she would speak, but she said not a word. “Ah!" I exclaimed sagely, “so you shrink, do you? Then you need not make any answer. I reason from that that you will not wash.” Dejectedly I turn to the manager of the employment REVISED SHAKE- SPEARE, 66\VJE HAVE a large the leading scientists in front to-night,” said the Stage-manager to the star. “ Now, if you could work in something that would ap- peal to them it might bea good idea.” The star smiled, and later on, when he was spout- ing his lines in a telling manner, he brought the sci- entists up standing, and was forced to bow repeatedly when he spoke of finding « microbes in stones, bacilli in running brooks, and germs in everything.” THEIR NATURE. Friend —"1 presume you receive from time to time a good many anony- mous letters criticising your actions on various ques- tions 2” Statesman — Well, agency and ask him again STRICTLY HONEST ABOVE ALL. some of them are anony- to send me a good, strong Woman—"' Land sakes! You ain't goln’ away without splittin’ some wood, be you, mous, but a far greater are after all them nice vittles you ett up?” girl who can cook, wash and Pouire strancer—" Lady, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to split some RUMber of them are unani- iron for a family of eight. wood for you, but | am a kleptomaniac and am afraid | might steal your axe.” mous.” ‘THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. AS A MATTER OF PRECAUTION. $6] IS not so much what a thing is as what we think itis that influ- Stranger (overtaking native)—" Say, what's the matter here? ences us,” I insisted earnestly; for I believed in looking on the Every house for the last ten miles is closed, and you're the first person bright side of things. I've seen. Got the plague here ?” “True,” replied the unsentimentalist. “Nothing adds so much Native (whipping up his horse)—" Nope. - Autymobile race ter- to the bouquet of the wine as the right label on the bottle.” morrer, an’ we're gittin’ out o' danger. Gedup !” HEIGHT OF POPULARITY. ‘Is his new song popular?’ “Popular? I should say sol There are over a dozen parodies on it already.” comicbooks.com