Judge, 1903-11-14 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 14, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several unrelated satirical pieces and poems rather than a cohesive political cartoon. **"The Sugar Girls"** is a poem about Oswald, a sugar king, attempting to market beet sugar by employing women ("sugar girls") to promote it to farmers. The satire targets corporate marketing tactics and perhaps labor exploitation. **"A Marine Revelation"** features a dialogue between children and an old sailor about provisions on a wrecked ship—a humorous anecdote with no obvious political message. **"Judge's Favorites"** is a poem about a character named Tom Tom. **"True Charity"** shows a beggar confronting a merchant, satirizing class attitudes toward poverty and charitable giving. The illustrations are generic comic sketches rather than pointed political commentary. The page appears to be filler content mixing light humor with social observation rather than hard political satire.
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THE SUGAR GIRLS. } (Oxnard, the beet-sogar king, has engaged a dozen pretty girls to make a door-to-door mission among the farmers of California, to persuade them to turn from cane to beet-sugar.—Exchange.) HE Oxnard girls, ‘tis very plain, They'll boom, of course, the juicy sweet Object to farmers raising cane ; That permeates the sugar-beet But if what's said above is true, Until the farmers’ boys shall pine Something like this these girls will do: For them as far more saccharine. Then beets will vanish, and instead The boys these pretty girls will wed ; For theirs is sweetness that’s so sweet That they forever beat the beet. Jon BexTox. ‘THE WORST OF IT. S4['VE always noticed,” said the white-haired old philosopher, « that running into debt isn't half so annoying to some people as running into their creditors.” A MARINE REVELATION. HE ancient mariner has just finished telling us how he existed for six months on a ship- wrecked vessel that was totally unprovided with provisions. “But what did you do for bread all that time?" we object with incredulity. “Oh, the waves gave us some lovely rolls,” is the reply. Fearing JUDGE'S FAVORITES. that he may — sesste wyNNe AS “TOM TOM" IN‘ BABES IN TOYLAND. state next As Tom Tom the piper’s son that they got ‘Away with the public heart you've run. pam No piggie have you at all purloined, spring chick- But you have daintily made and coined en from the The elghteen-karat gold of trl- Umph that assures your future's ple, forward ‘And means that you always can make a hit hatch, we ‘With the crowd, from the gallery to the pit; smite him For loud will the crowd, in its joy, of course, violently and Shout till it's weary and breathless and hoarse, “Oh, Tom Tom, the piper's son, flee through Away with the public heart you've run!”* the open casement. Truly, only those who have lived with their arms around old ocean's gray and melancholy waste can appreciate the mysteries of the sea. LAZY SEASON. HE. book of nature I would read HIS GAIN. And get a lesson from each tree. * Johnny, you've lost a tooth. Aren't you sorry?” T always wait, however, till “Naw! lt makes one less to clean.” Kind autumn turns the leaves for me. TRUE CHARITY. i Mr. Jonts—' Are you a professional beggar?" } Menpicant (hopefully) — jo, sir; Lam. ba ‘ | Mr. Jones—" Then I won't give you anything, for fear of making you ona.”" comicbooks.com