Judge, 1905-12-09 · page 3 of 17
Judge — December 9, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon ("Clever"):** A woman in a carriage passes a house party. The joke's caption reveals she's a widow who "fixed over" her appearance so successfully after remarriage that "she looks almost as good as new"—a dig at cosmetics and remarriage practices among wealthy women. **Lower Cartoon ("The Difference"):** Two figures (appears to be an Irish immigrant and an Oirish-American) debate religious differences. The humor relies on ethnic stereotyping and dialect humor common to the era, mocking both Irish immigrants and assimilated Irish-Americans through exaggerated speech patterns. Both cartoons reflect Judge's satirical approach to contemporary social anxieties about class mobility, cosmetic enhancement, immigration, and assimilation in turn-of-the-century America.
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CLEVER. “Ethel is awfully clever." “Indeed 2" “Yes. She has fixed over that old widower she married so he looks almost as good as new." - * FIRST AIDS TO YOUNG THINKERS. NOW that the tong evenings are here the people are once more en- gaged in reading and study. Mental improvement is the object of thousands during the winter months, and the earnest seekers after information turn naturally to their favorite periodical to know what knowledge to seek, how to seek it, and where. As a sign-post on the way, this illumirfating query and reply is reproduced : “Kindly tell me a good way to study Carlyle’s and Macaulay's essays. “CLS” “The best way to study an essay is to read it carefully and thoughtfully. —Ladies' Home Journal.” We cannot add anything to this excellent advice except by way of em- In a literary experience extending over some years we have phasis. There are various found this to be the surest road to knowledge. substitutes for this old-fashioned method, but they are not satisfactory. If you would know a this will be to small purpose if you do not at the same time read him thoughtfully, ‘The expert already quoted does well to synchronize, concatenate and weld together this joint effort of the faculties. Read- ing an author carefully and thoughtfully may result in excessive brain fag and ongwe, but these are the price of knowledge. We wish all our young and throbbing thinkers success in their fireside search for knowledge, and for their encouragement we would remind them of this comforting and singular fact: that if they will but persevere and acquire fresh information and add it to that which they already know, they will then have added just that much to what they know already. PERSONAL OBJECTIONS. Bruddah Johnsing,” said the exhorter, bending over the man at the mourner’s bench; “aldough yo’ hab gone t’roo great triles an’ tribbylations, aldough yo’ hab bin pussecuted by man an* sent ter de jail time an’ time ergain fo" book you must read it, as the Journal expert says. Some use a book to give elevation to a chair, but this does not as- sist in the mastery of the real contents of the book. It may give a little warmed-over knowledge, but not the inspiration that comes from contact with the author him- self. It does not fol- low that you should sit on the author in- stead of his book. Those who reach such a conclusion to- tally misapprehend our position, Having read your author you should next read him carefully; but even Pat—"Ten children, av coorse.”” THE DIFFERENCE. i | Phat's th’ difference bechune an Oirishman an’ an Oirish-Amirican ?”" chicken-stealin’, it is still possible fo" yo" ter go ter heaben an’ join in de glad songs ob de seraphs, “ Hol’ on!" in- terrupted Mistah Johnsing, jumping to his feet; ‘hol’ on, Bruddah Snowball ! I declaihs mahse'fright now an’hyuh., I isn’t gwine ter no heaben whar I has ter join in de songs wid de sher- iffs. I's done had too much truck wid dem kind ob people on dis earth,” 5 NE touch of whis- key makes the whole crowd chin, comicbooks.com