Judge, 1904-02-20 · page 16 of 16
Judge — February 20, 1904 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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**Top cartoon**: A French cook has accidentally poisoned her employer by mixing wax candles into his macaroni dinner, creating domestic chaos. The satire mocks both nouveau-riche households employing fashionable French servants and the assumption that imported cooks represent sophistication—here with literally indigestible consequences. **Bottom cartoon**: Two unemployed laborers assess a snow-covered property, deducing the wealthy homeowner hosted an all-night drinking party ("stag-party") because: 1) snow continued falling until 6 a.m., and 2) visible disorder outside. The dialect-heavy speech represents working-class immigrants; the satire targets wealthy idleness and excess while laborers struggle for work. Both comics employ slapstick and working-class perspectives to mock upper-class pretension and incompetence—typical Judge magazine fare satirizing the Gilded Age leisure class.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. Dr. Guesser—** What's the trouble with your husband ?"’ Mrs. Heartistone—" Why, it's our new French cook, Bridgetta.”” Dr. Guesser—"* Why, he hasn't swallowed the cook!"* Mrs. Heartustone—" Oh, dear, no! She found some wax tapers and put them in the macaroni she served to my husband for-dinner."* COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. ‘Sackett & Wilhelims Litho & Prg Co. Rew York. : WHEN MAMMA LEAVES HUBBY TO MIND THE HOUSE. Hunary Moower—"' Do youse t'ink we kin git de Job uv shovelin’ dis walk?” Lazy Looner— 1 ‘De feller wot owns de place ain't up yit: an’, besides, he's had a stag-party till six dis mornin’. Hunory Mooney—" How kin yer tell dat?” Lazy Looney—"'I knows it fer two reasons. First, it didn't stop snowin’ tll six o'clock: an’ second, de udder Indications speaks fer demselves."" comicbooks.com