Judge, 1905-10-21 · page 5 of 16
Judge — October 21, 1905 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple unrelated humor pieces typical of Judge's format: **"Precocious Wit"** (top cartoon): A child asks an adult why people die and go to "bad place camp" — likely a naive reference to hell. The humor relies on the child's innocent misunderstanding of religious concepts. **"A Texas Tragedy"** and other sections below present brief humorous anecdotes about rural/frontier life, including a dialogue about a mule being stolen and arrests. **"Only One Left," "Still Looking," and "Various Excuses for Being Late"** are separate short humor pieces featuring domestic scenarios and marital comedy. The page represents Judge's typical mixed-content approach: satirical cartoons combined with brief comedic stories and observations on contemporary American life, without apparent political commentary. The humor is genteel and domestic rather than explicitly partisan.
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ARRISeN PRECOCIOUS WIT. * Auntie, dear, do all the people who die and go to the bad place camp out?” Auxt—" Why. no, child. Why do you ask?” Lie Giapys—" Well, our Sunday-school teacher told us to-day that the heat was in tents.”" Lime Gtapys: A TEXAS TRAGEDY. T WAS in a little Texas hamlet. A more or less excited crowd had collected in the road. *« What is the matter?” I inquired of a native. ++ A po'r ol’ darkey killed, suh,"” was the reply. «Indeed ?” said I, shivering. ++ Yes, suh; an’ only jes’ ’kaze he stole a mule.”” **Good heavens !" I exclaimed shudderingly. ++ An’ only a scraggly, vicious, bitin’, runaway, dog-on, or'nery mule at dat!" “Oh, my! Have they arrested his slayer?” “Traik’n not, suh.” **What! Don't they know him, then?” +Oh, yes; dey shore know him.” +» And won't arrest him ?” «No, sub.” «In the name of heaven, why not 2" «Kaze de mule wuz de slayer, suh.” ONLY ONE LEFT. Benham—** This is a one-horse place.” Mrs. Benham—+ Well, I suppose the automobiles have displaced the horses."" STILL LOOKING. J SAW men excitedly searching the sky— A more frantic concourse I never had seen. T said to a man with a telescope, * Why Isall this commotion, sir—what does it mean?” « We're looking for,” said he with tremulous sigh, “A woman who kindled her fire with benzine.”” one VARIOUS EXCUSES FOR BEING LATE. A Mrs, Hoyle—The paper says that the famine.” ee Mrs. Doyle—«* Don't you believe it”! My husband ‘hi to offer every night.” sat is; a, short-story comicbooks.com