Judge, 1903-12-19 · page 19 of 52
Judge — December 19, 1903 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge presents multiple brief humorous vignettes typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. The main cartoon, "Peace on Earth," depicts a chaotic Victorian household where children play wildly while a father sits exhausted—satirizing the contrast between Christmas ideals and domestic reality. Other sketches mock everyday situations: a husband claiming wintergreen gives presents "holiday flavor"; a woman whose family tree has too many "wall flowers" (unmarriageable relatives); marital dynamics where wives control husbands or give ill-fitting gifts. "A Christmas Reminder" compares a frightened cat to a cowardly man fleeing danger, while the final jokes feature dialogue between a Prime Minister and Cannibal King about missionary preaching—referencing colonial-era stereotypes. The poems at top celebrate Santa's burden cheerfully. Overall, the page uses domestic comedy and mild social commentary typical of Judge's humor: poking fun at marriage, family, social pretension, and holiday expectations.
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THE CAUSE, HIS PACK, HIS is the merry FROM candy bull Christmas day, To candy yak | And we are very The bundle 's full Glad and gay. Upon my back} We fancy, therefore, I simply puff As we scoot, And pant and blow— We should the wherefore This bag ‘s enough Fondly toot. To lay me low. Oh, now we bubble, Yet though it breaks Dance and shout Me quite in half, And knock all trouble It often makes Down and out, Me grin and laugh, Till nothing glum sticks While | mur-mur, In our crop— “What should annoy We're on our drum sticks ‘The man whose bur- { And on top. Den'‘s full of joy.” | | DECIDEDLY APPROPRIATE. LOOKED THAT WAY. Mrs. Waggles—“ \'m not quite sure whether these presents I Crawford—«1 suppose you're a big man in your wile’s estima- bought for my friends have the proper holiday flavor.” tion.” Waggles—* They should have, my dear. Willie upset the bottle Crabshaw—"1 must be, The slippers she made me for Christ- of wintergreen over taas eouldRGa than | them.” twice my size.” | NOT QUITE LAST- ING. se GHE says she can bend him around her little finger.” “Perhaps. But she can't bend him } around the next one.” ITS GREAT DRAW- BACK. 46'THE only trouble about our family tree,” mused the hatchet-faced lady, as she gazed on her sisters and her cousins and her aunts, “is that too many wall flowers bloom on it.” And she pointed her nose at the ceiling. ‘THE NUMBER THE SAME, } ee P)ON'T you have trouble opening the door when there IN THE SOUP. are three key-holes ?” Prime minister— | “I never have A CHRISTMAS REMINDER. “That latest. mission- h difficulty. Y. (Oh, now the Thomas cat is scared and minus all his wits; is | beef alwaee Beane His hirsute stands upon his back and then he up and filts. ae Soret _ see T'always fod that And thus does he remind us of the man who'll quickly dive, preaching too much.’ have three keys in my ‘To get away from something flerce although it's not alive. Cannibal king— hand.” * Boil him down.” “PEACE ON EARTH.” ‘Sochattd Withels Lhe & Pog Co Kew Yor comicbooks:com