Judge, 1904-07-30 · page 7 of 16
Judge — July 30, 1904 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **"An Old Salt's Observations"** (top): A collage of folksy anecdotes from an unnamed sailor character, touching on human nature, hypocrisy, and absurdity. Examples include a man switching political allegiances over road gravel, and two men fighting over the hair color of a woman one had saved—satirizing how trivial grievances motivate people. The humor targets general human irrationality rather than specific political figures. **"The Busy Bumble-Bee and the Guzzling Gosling"** (bottom): A six-panel comic strip showing a gosling (young goose) attempting to remove a busy bee from flowers, failing repeatedly, and eventually learning to coexist with it. This appears to be a moral fable about acceptance and persistence, though the specific allegorical meaning is unclear from the image alone. Neither section references identifiable public figures or datable events. The satire is broadly social rather than topical, typical of *Judge* magazine's general-interest humor approach.
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AN OLD SALT’S OB- SERVATIONS. HERE'S lots of good sailors that don't know how to dance a hornpipe. I've known men that was brave in shipwreck jest because there wasn't any place to run to, Abad man died. He was dead. A good man died. That was years ago. He's still alive, You can't tell how many throbs a man’s heart is givin’ to th’ min- ute by countin’ of th’ ruf- fles on his shirt-front. I know a man that thought there was noth- in’ strange at all about th’ funniest customs of th’ Sandwich islands. He lived there. 's surely a cre- us," says th’ man, lookin’ at his wife with admiration, “What is it that she makes?" I asks of him. “Oh, trou- ble,” he says proudly. When you add a naught to one it makes ten of it, But Bill Jones, he’s fear ful fond of money. T'oth- er day he let Smith kick him for an hour, although he could have licked Smith easy, What did you do that for?" I asked him, “Oh, well,” he says, “Smith ‘s got lots of money. Now I've got a damage-suit ag'inst him.” I knew a boy that got his idea of queens from playin'-cards; an’ when he see a real one he cried because she didn't have two heads, one at each end, thus disappointin’ him by be- in’ much less wonderful than he had thought! We're all of us like that in some things. A feller come to me one day an’ said that he was goin’ to be a Demo- crat from then on be- cause a Republican high- way commissioner had put too much gravel on the road in front of his barn. He drinks milk right along, although ative ge ry a 7 there is some cows that plain idiot to a common- hook. place fool an’ you don't ~ Two men was fight- git added value. All ats in’ terrible on th’ dock. that’s comin’ is more a I stopped ‘em, an’ found trouble, oa indies they'd been disputin’ a A man who swore IN THAT CASE, OF COURSE— to what color hair He asked his wife to cuss favorite candy, or something of that kind.” man had saved one of ev'ry time he did, thinkin’ “em from drownin’, an’ it would break him of th'habit. She did, It did, But then ste couldn't th’ other's wife was auburn-haired. Puzzle—Which one of ‘em was stop. He got a divorce. I've forgotten what th’ moral of this is. fightin’ for red hair? : fm fv Mh. cane SS —and tries to put him out of business. —- want, ban | a | satan mf, ein fi —gets extremely busy with the gosling—— _.~—then returns to business again, leaving the —a sadder but wiser bird. gosling— HON Mth iH THE BUSY BUMBLE-BEE AND THE GUZZLING GOSLING. comicbooks.com