Judge, 1905-04-01 · page 5 of 16
Judge — April 1, 1905 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* contains three satirical pieces: **"All Fools' Day"** (top): A chaotic cartoon showing foolish holiday revelry, with the accompanying verse mocking people who behave absurdly on April 1st. **"Rules for a Home"** (left): Practical domestic advice about maintaining proper household order and morality—likely satirizing Victorian ideals about family structure and the proper roles of wives, servants, and children. The joke seems to be that these "rules" are obvious common sense, yet apparently needed stating. **"A Remarkable Cure"** (center): A doctor's anecdote about treating cocaine addiction paradoxically by allowing the patient to continue until he "recovered" by simply forgetting to use it. This appears to satirize both medical incompetence and the era's casual attitude toward cocaine (then legal and common in medicines). **"Misunderstood"** (lower left): A brief comic dialogue where one man assumes another is attending an old friend's wedding anniversary, when he's actually attending that friend's *remarriage* to a wealthy young woman—satirizing mercenary second marriages.
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There's no fool Wh The thing that "Ss the brick II, THIS day is the very day Of all the bh ming year rry day and near. RULES FOR A HOME. IIE dining-room should always be sacred. ‘That is the one room where no scraps should be allowed, Keep your children, your dogs and your troubles away from your Remember that home begins with charity. Put over the front door, for every member of the family to read, * He who enters here leaves satire behind.” Have the same standard of morals for yourself as for your chil- dren, You need it.as much as they do, Remember that open win- dows mal Also, that your wife knows, health epidemic. less about your business and is better able to advise you than any one else. If you must worry take a big thing, The little things will knock you out. There three stand. points to every home — your own, your wife's and the cook's. are ‘Try and forget your own. Buy everything on the in stallment. plan by paying. for it all in one installment— the first. Tom Masson. MISUNDERSTOOD. Biggs —" Mello, Driggs t Where are you running to?" Di to Poorchap’s golden wedding.” Biggs —" Nb, an old friend of yours who is celebs fiftieth andchildren flocking about him, I suppose 2" Driggs—"No; Voorchap is. goir —"Oh, I'm going tings his anniversary with his not at all, to marry a girl with about five million in cold cash, Good-bye !" ! at th ever fane And yet we think the very fool That Ay Ts he that shed His winter undertegs. like the very fool that fools the merry fool [first befogs the merry fool, Veneath the hat. A REMARKABLE CURE. Ss YES." said the doctor with a reminiscent sigh ; "it was certainly the most peculiar and, in some respects, the saddest case 1 was ever called upon to treat. The man had catarrh, and among other remedies had been using a strong solution of cocaine for it, spraying it up the nostrils, you know, Well, to make a long story short, he contracted the cocaine habit—got so he couldn't do without the stuff, and it made him a physical wreck. But he kept right on taking it till finally his mind became affected, he lost his memory, forgot to use it and recovered.” HER VOICE. er hear her sing ‘On the hills of old New H, in shire, far away *?"* ink could if | was anywhere in New Eng id at the time,” comicbooks.com