Judge, 1903-12-19 · page 35 of 52
Judge — December 19, 1903 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **Christmas-themed poetry and humor** rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **Poems:** - "A Waiting Game" (by Nathan M. Levy): A man's lament about spending lavishly on gifts for an unresponsive woman while receiving minimal reciprocation—satirizing the expense and emotional imbalance of courtship. - "The Ballet-Dancer": Light verse about a dancer's meager stockings and her Christmas wish list. **Comic Vignettes:** - A romantic exchange where a man offers his heart; she offers hers in return but admits it's "on my sleeve"—suggesting superficial sentiment. - A brief joke about a man who gave his landlady a cookbook as a Christmas gift, prompting his forced departure—implying the gift was insulting or suggested she was a poor cook. **Illustration:** The bottom image shows "Deacon Elderberry" returning home to find others enjoying his Christmas dinner, likely a humorous domestic scene about holiday preparations. The satire targets **romantic disappointment, financial strain from gift-giving, and social awkwardness**—universal themes rather than specific political content.
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HE APPROVED. A WAITING GAME. “T, to-day I ponder and recall ve many Christmases that I have sent (Ve gods, how very quick the money went!) Nice gifts to you—books, fans and flowers, all ‘The pretty things you have on desk and wall— On sundry baubles all my gold I spent, And then I sought the sign of * Money lent "— j Down to such depths of poverty I'd fall. You've smiled on me (as maidens ofttimes do), } And sometimes you my amorous sighs would heed, | Yet all these days your love I've failed to win, j And though you've given me a scarf or two Thave been trying very hard, indeed, To find where in this drama I come in i NATHAN M. LEVY. SOY VHAT have you for my Christmas gift?” She asked in accents mocking. «*My heart,” he sighed. It in your silken stocking.” “T think I'l hide “A goodly gift,” she smiled at him. “Your sentiment is pleasant, And in exchange, my heart—how strange !— Is on my sleeve—at resent.” ‘THE BALLET-DANCER. HER stockings are too small, oho! And, thinking e’er of Yule’s delights, She wants a thousand things or so, And thus hangs up her turquoise tights ! DEACON ELDERBERRY RETURNS FROM “MEETING” AND FINDS HIS CHRISTMAS DINNER BEING APPRECIATED. Oh, thank you, Santy kind and dear, for all ‘These things that from my stocking now I pull, Because each seems to be than all the rest More bright and sweet, more fair and beautiful. HIS INDISCRETION. Chadwick—“ Why did Dimling leave Mrs. Hashcroft’s ? I always thought he was the star boarder.” Tredway— He was ; but he had to go. He gave the landlady a cook-book for a Christmas gift.” comicbooks.com