Judge, 1904-05-07 · page 20 of 20
Judge — May 7, 1904 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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**Top cartoon ("On His Heart Beat"):** A police officer proposes to Norah, the cook, threatening heartbreak if rejected. She accepts—not from love, but because the mistress deducts broken kitchen items from her wages. The satire mocks both the officer's melodramatic proposal and the economic desperation of domestic servants, who lived under harsh conditions where even accidental breakage cost them wages. **Bottom cartoon ("A Bunch of Them"):** Two men discuss a landlady's "five different kinds of stomach trouble"—which turn out to be five poorly-prepared dishes: stewed prunes, kidney stew, singed oats, threaded wheat, and frizzled rice. The joke satirizes bad boarding-house cooking, a common complaint in early 1900s urban life, by treating inedible meals as actual ailments. Both use working-class Irish dialect and kitchen settings typical of Judge's humor targeting immigrant and servant communities.
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ON HIS (HEART) BEAT. Orricer Roonry—"' If ye don't accept me, Norah, ye'll break me heart."* Novant (she cook)—“* Faith, thin Oi'll accept ye. ‘Th’ mistress said she'd take th’ money out av me wages fer annything Oi broke in th’ kitchen." COPYRIGHT 1903 HY JUNGK COMPANY OF NEW YOR Sackett & Withelms Litho. & Ptg. Co. New Vork, A BUNCH OF THEM. Mr. Bacxe Hatte —** My landlady has five different kinds of stomach trouble."* Mk. Beacon Lice -—t* What are they 2" Mr. Backe Hatte—" Stewed prunes, kidney stew, singed oats, threaded wheat, and frizzled rice.”