Judge, 1904-05-28 · page 12 of 16
Judge — May 28, 1904 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page mixes short jokes with advertising. The humor relies heavily on **racial stereotypes** common to the era—particularly mocking African American dialect and education. One joke depicts a Black man pretending to read an educated text while actually reading a "negro-dialect story," suggesting Black people cannot genuinely be educated. Another uses exaggerated dialect ("kain't say," "mah fergittery") to mock an elderly Black man's memory. The other jokes target various social groups: servants, unmarried women obsessed with beauty sleep, Irish domestics, and wealthy men's hypocrisy about charity. The cartoons illustrate these jokes with period engravings. "A Terrible Finish" shows a theater-goer criticizing a villain—the joke being that marrying the heroine would be worse punishment than his actual fate. The page is primarily **advertising space** for Leslie's Weekly, Wilson Whiskey, W.L. Douglas Shoes, and Angostura Bitters, with the jokes serving as content filler typical of early 1900s magazines.
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“See that colored man wrinkling his brow over that book ?” ~ Yes; he can't read it at all.” «Just making a bluff that he's educated, eh?" “Oh, no; he's educated, but that's a| negro-dialect story."—Philadelphia Pub- | lic Ledger. __ | Uncle Jason, do you remember the} year in which the war close¢ h kain't say dat Ah kin, boss; mah fergittery is so much better'n mah remem- bery dat I sometimes gits mixed up on} THAT’S ALL ! dem dates !"—Vew Orleans Times-Dem- q ocrat. Good health is real wealth—AbI tura Bitters is a veritable fortune t It is not talk — Miss Mugley— | always try to retire or boast. or guess, for before midnight. [ don't like to miss my beauty sleep.” Miss Pepprey—" Nou really should try harder. You certainly don't get e ‘ b ‘ “ iagistgeat e The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes; along came a blackbird “Howly murther!" she yelled to the _ rege royal family ; “thot sittles it. Yez'Il niver Be, Se git any more cooks to live in the counthry ae Om. Makes its own at all.” Herein we see the origin of one of our Success great social problems.—Vew York Sun. Sold at all frst-ctass cates and by jobbers Knicker—“ 1s his charity unostenta- Wl, LAN ATIAN © SUN, Naluunore, Sd. tous Bocker— Very. When he gives ad- | vice he doesn’t let his upper jaw know We rise and then we fall again, what his lower jaw says."—Vew York| We ebb and then we flow. Sun. Whene‘er our head is in the clouds —— We're sure to stub our toe. Staylate— Ya-as, Miss Bella, | was New York Sun. | once at death's door.” . Miss Bella— Dear me w did he Philanthropist—" Why did you change | €Ver get you to it v York Sun. | the title of the ladies’ home to old la- dies’ home ? Mant Slot Machine Mrs, du Goods—« It was becoming too i crowded.”—New York Weekly. LESLIE’S WEEKLY Oldest and yet youngest A TERRIBLE FINISH. Ernet (ofier the matinee)—"* What a horrid * villain’ he was!" illustrated paper in America Lire Jorxins—‘ Oh, ya-as: awful. It would have served him deucedly right if he'd married the heroine. Binek —~Punch. Every part of the paper of human interest Jasper’s hints to money- e e makers alone are worth ten weet $3.50 SHOES ic $10,000.00 nal be paidto any one who can pro: times the subscription price “REWARD. il more argue S256 aboes teas P P REWARD Shy ciber manufacturer in the world. . The reason W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are worn by more men in all stations of life than any other make is because they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer and are of greater value than any other $3.50 shoe. $4 per Year $1 for 3 Months }\|\ 2,473,464 faites S53. eae ime baiceerar and mars comfort tha any othr she Tf fact PECL the Shoe Fashions Ey : 225 Weny Biitorhahi' ef LP Bonkers Sons of the World W, L. Douglas Hligh-Grade Boys’ Shoes, $2.00 and §1.75. TA) ? FOURTH AVE. L E S L I 13 S oftizian sare cons coun namnnesigcken. coors Ty Past Cro: pLETS USED PX' lan $3.10 shoes are so at stores tn th Douglas Shoes en aie Marae we reek Smuatter where yoU live, W E E KL Y eXUE prepare delivery.” Wivte Yor lassirted Caraicrue ef Spring Stier America W. L. DOUGLAS, 148 Spark Street, Brockton, Massachusetts, : comicbooks.com