Judge, 1904-08-20 · page 4 of 16
Judge — August 20, 1904 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical pieces using racist imagery and stereotypes common to late 19th/early 20th-century American humor magazines. "How the Palms Became White" presents a pseudo-scientific folk tale mocking Black dialect and perpetuating racist pseudoscience about skin color through exaggerated dialect speech. The narrative presents enslaved people's labor as the source of palm whitening. "Judge's Favorites" and "Rising" appear to be brief satirical poems about social climbing and status among performers. "Full of Ginger" references "Sissy Fultites," likely a theatrical figure, with commentary on autobiographies. "Both Work Hard" depicts farmers in a humorous conversation about labor. The entire page exemplifies Judge's reliance on dehumanizing racial caricature as its primary comedic vehicle—content reflecting and reinforcing the racist attitudes of its era.
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A LIBERAL VIEW.’ 66 LJAVE you seen much of Miss Dux monde? She's apt to be reserved, they say, And seldom lets one get beyond The commonplace of every day.” “Oh, yes, indeed! I saw so much That really I was stricken mute, Although I only met her once— But—she was in her bathing-suit!” MADELINE wEIDGES. HOW THE PALMS BECAME WHITE. QNCE on a time eberybody wuz black—yer gran‘daddies, Abra- ham an’ Moses an’ Norah wuz black, ‘case dey nebber had a bath, Gawd say ter Hisse', “I's a-gwine ter turn ‘em inter white folks, an’ I'll send a pool ob watah, so all kin take a bath.” Well, de libeliest niggers gits dar fust an’ jumps in an’ splashes roun’ till dey turns white, an’ dat’s how all yo white folks cum erbout. I hates ter say it, GUDGE'S FAVORITES. honey; but dem fust niggers wuz so Wazina ReOEES black an‘ dirty, an’ dey muddied up The gilt-edged show de watah sech a terrible lot dat when Making a clean breast of a theft. Is never slow de nex’ batch ob niggers cum erlong When etait ake make it ge. de watah wuz so cullud dat dey all on ‘em turn inter merlattoes when dey jumps in, an‘ dat's We gladly fly how all de merlattoes cum in dis heah worl’, And cast our shekels with a sigh ‘Cose eberybody wanted ter take a bath, so dey kep’ a-jumpin’ in lickerty split till dey'd all Aol tuk deir turn ‘cept de lazy, triflin’ niggers, what's no good fo' nuffin'—jes’ like we see ‘em now And chase old sorrow up a tree down on de levee—dey nebber git nowhar on time. Until we hold, va falt.* rount . . aun “ter? ‘With bliss untold. Dey kep’ a-foolin’ roun’ till de watah wuz mos’ used up an’ dar wuzn't nuffin’ lef’ but a The fort that’s made of fairy gold. leetle snaky pool a-runnin’ ‘long de groun’, an’ when de las’ lot seed it all gone dey jumps in on all fours an’ dabble roun’ an’ wet deir han’s an’ deir footsies; an’ dat’s how mah han’s cum RISING. white inside, an’ dat’s all I knows erbout it, honey. ‘THEY have come up in the world, have they not ?” asks the friend of other days. FULL OF GINGER. “Indeed, yes,” says the friend who has +¢] SEE that Sissy Futlites, the celebrated stage beauty and flirt, is announced as engaged kept track of them. “ Why, they have reached upon her autobiography,” says the literary man. that stage where they correct your pronuncia- “ Her autobiography ?" says the wise man, «It'll be an autosellography if she tells all she tion of their name.” knows, won't it?” BOTH WORK HARD. Farmer Meopers—*Yes, miss; us farmers work awful hard an‘ hey mighty little fun, There's only one class o' people works harder an’ gits less enjoyment.” Miss Summercir.—"’ Who are they ?"* Farmer Mepoers—"Th’ summer boarders, miss."* comicbooks.com