Judge, 1903 · page 7 of 20
Judge — 1903 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Cartoon ("Fate of the Hero"):** This satirizes American attitudes toward the Spanish-American War, particularly the Philippines conflict. A wounded soldier receives sympathy from ladies who assume his injuries came from football—a popular American sport. When he reveals his wounds are actually from fighting in the Philippines, they react with disgust ("The horrid thing!"). The joke mocks both the triviality Americans assigned to football injuries versus combat wounds, and perhaps public indifference to the actual cost of imperial warfare. **"Up to Date":** A brief scene depicting an African king adopting modern transportation (a hippopotamus), satirizing either colonial stereotypes or the absurdity of applying "progress" to non-Western cultures. **"Careless Carrie":** A romantic comedy bit about a girl who loses a suitor through carelessness—the punchline playing on "getting her cap on straight" as both literal and metaphorical. **"Sooner Work":** A brief joke about a husband preferring football employment to watching his losing team play.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
FATE OF THE HERO. UP TO DATE. A NAN sthose cheeks were pale THE court of King Ooftoo- whose eyes were lustreless, boofoo, in central Africa, Came wating wih the air of one is preparing to go on tour. in deep distress. fh nwa ce a pace UR stneet the “What mode of progres- ities aed lose, sion will your serene and cle- And sighed because his limbs were bandaged at the knee. They sighed also because his fore- head bore a patch Of plaster meant to hide a long and ragged scratch One arm was in a sling. At this the ladies wept— In fact, they pitied him as slowly on he crept. vated highness condescend to adopt for the journey ?" asks the first gentleman of the stables. “Could there be any ques- tion as to that?” asks the king. vanced days we must keep up with the times. We will ride on the royal hippopautomo- ++Oh, sir!” they said to him, “pray bile.” tell us of the game j Pray tell us of the field Where you CARELESS CARRIE. went forth to maim. URING the intermission at Were you the centre-rush, or tace kle, of a guard, That thus you have been torn and mangled, bruised and scarred? Was it in some swift dash—some scrimmage for the ball— That you were thrown around, a plaything for them all? Come! we will talk with you and marvel at your speech. Oh, tell us of the game—please tell us, we beseech !" the football game the girls fall to talking of romances in general, “ Now,” says the blonde, “there was Carrie, She set her cap for Percy Goldburner, but some way or other Algy Stonebroke took all her smiles as meant for him, and as a re- sult she is perfectly unhappy.” + It was all her own fault,” asserts the brunette, “Carrie never could get her cap on straight.” EXPLAINED. Sniff—\ see that an an- cient poem, supposed! to have been written by Homer, has just come to light.” Shawe—"Ab, he had sent it to some magaziné that paid on publication, I suppose.” The pallid man then smiled and leaned upon his crutch. ir ones,” he said, “my wounds do not amount to much. Tdid not chance to play at football, but the scenes Where I was whittled up were in TO THE DOGS. the Philippines.” Sne—"'He looks upon hunting The gentle ladies then refused to asa form of dissipation." smile or He "No wonder! The shot is with sharp looks of scorn so dissipated when he fires that it goes But with sharp lks of scorn they $9 ssipated when, said, * The horrid thing !"" SOONER WORK. Has your husband got a job yit?”” Mrs. Jounson— No: but ef de Blackville football team keeps on losin’ I reckon he will. He says he's sick ob seein’ ‘em play."” comicbooks.com