Judge, 1904-12-10 · page 14 of 20
Judge — December 10, 1904 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"An Old Salt's Observations"** features a garrulous sailor character offering folk wisdom on marriage, divorce, and military life—standard working-class comic relief of the era. **"Conditional"** satirizes war correspondents' complaints to a general about reporting restrictions. The general's absurdly inflated list of required military victories (four victorious engagements, thirteen hand-to-hand conflicts, etc.) mocks both the correspondents' demands for access and military propaganda claims. **"Cheer Up, Ye Deserving Poor!"** depicts wealthy Mrs. Ponsonby Vervrich instructing her servant James to feed her starving dog a canvas-back duck while tossing scraps to the poor boy who brought the dog home. This directly satirizes class inequality and the misplaced priorities of the wealthy—they lavish luxury on pets while the poor go hungry. **"In Ireland"** offers quick ethnic humor about Irish character stereotypes. The page reflects Progressive-era critique of wealth disparity and wartime information control.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
AN OLD SALT’S never had appendeci- OBSERVATIONS, tis in all my life, an’ THE longest way my mother - in - law around in goin’ pages - vere lives down in South purple home 's the shortest a AGS oR \ Ameriky, by gosh!" trimm way there is to the : gf Then he hollered lace al divorce-court. 3 / Z N\A ; Ay Whoopee !” an’ did pom Lots of college- c 5 . a sailor's hornpipe. TENN boys think they can |e A \ YOWARD MARSHALL. make the creases in CONDITIONAL. their pants sharp HE war-corre- enough to carve out ’ > ‘8 ; pao 5 spondents entered a livin’ with, ples the commanding gen- eral’s tent. Sir,” said their spokesman, “we re- quest that the restric- tions placed upon our Readin’ Russian war-news set_me in’. A little jug- in’ of the letters that make “sceptre” will change the meanin’ of ; is movements he speed- the word. “Specter i : ‘ ily removed. It is im- 's quite a different : , ? 1 A possible for us, under affair. 7 s ; the present condi- tions, to. get within the zone of operations, and as a result our dispatches are mea- greand colorless. We must have more lib- erty.” It's a great satis- faction to a woman, after there’s been a difference of opinion at the breakfast-table, to reflect that her hus- band won't have no- hody to patch his win- Th al cool- ter pants up after she he general cool is dead. PN Ec ly sipped his vodka. * Gentlemen,” he finally said, “1 will grant your request hae upon the following borro conditions: That you merci allow us in your re- In the cabin the passengers was kick- in’ on the quality of their patty-de-foy yrass—said it had heen cut too soon, or ; ports each month four “Ye somethin’, In the ‘ ome i victorious engage- bale fo'c’s'le the men was a FF ments, six brilliant at- tacks, thirteen hand- Syst to-hand conflicts, three growlin’ at the quality of their salt hoss. So far as I could see, they / - twenty-three timely seemed to feel about ; - p y squal bad \ retreats, eight stub- ea aE wanna véhe Sf ¢ born repulses, two ut- a_chap ter routs for the en- that always looks on \ cikecaba ihe cece the brightest side of F Unit eer ee thes, Says he, «toi y of twelve impregnable anaee "eh, Raw positions, The honor s-eyed, P of the imperial army backed and bow-leg- : ‘ , : B is atstake. If we can- weds, -My heart's ane : not win on the field” certain, my liver ‘s Seite his Gai by consumption, an’ . Eee a my wife: run’ aNay, lowed to win on with an insurance- p ate agent two weeks ago Lg es come Tuesday. I've lost my fortune, been fired from the church, an’ broke my collar- bone, A man_poie soned my dog, anoth- er injected glanders into my best horse with a hypodermic ‘ syringe, an’ my house R . IN IRELAND. burnt down a-Mon- ‘i J . English tourist day. I give my laun- —"Is the country dry to a Chinaman, around here peaceful, an’ now I've lost the ‘ doncherknow 2” check. Towe a man Native—“It'stoo four dollars, an’ he paceful ‘tis, yer honor. says he'll lick me if T CHEER UP, YE DESERVING POOR! Oi'm only jist afther don’t pay up, which Mrs. Ponsonsy Vervrich—' James, is that boy that brought back Fido down stairs?" comin’ from Killina- is quite impossible to Jaues—* Yes, me lady." man, an’ now, begob ! deuiButtwhavel ie Mrs. Ponsonsy Vervricn—" Poor Fido! He must be nearly starved. James, take Fido into the dining-room at once, have cook broll him a nice canvas-back duck, and, by the way. give the boy some- O/M goin’ to Kill- thing to eat, also. Tell cook to give him some nice cold hash as soon as Fido {s taken care of." more. POOR GIRL! Ella—1 know I'm not good-looking, but people forget my face when I sing.” Stella—"Is your singing as bad as that?” use of kickin’? [ comicbooks.com