Judge, 1906-05-19 · page 16 of 16
Judge — May 19, 1906 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This six-panel comic follows "Nervy Nat," an American tourist character, through Westminster Abbey in London. The humor centers on Nat's brash American ignorance and irreverence toward British institutions and propriety. Nat makes crude jokes (confusing Admiral Lord Nelson's monument with "Battling Nelson," a boxer), sleeps during tours, and accidentally insults a proper English lady (Miss Jumson from Maine) by poking what he assumes is a wax figure but is actually a stone Crusader effigy. The final panel shows Nat condescendingly lecturing Miss Jumson about respecting social hierarchies while contradicting himself. The satire mocks American tourists as culturally insensitive and pretentious, while also gently ridiculing British pomposity. "Nervy Nat" appears to be Judge magazine's recurring character used to satirize American behavior abroad.
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1. Nexvy Nat—''I really must go in and see the Abbey. I understand t's where they keep all the Englishmen that are deader than the ordinary run. | By Jovel it looks jolly gloomy, as the Britishers would so aptly 3. Nenvy Nat—"* Gosh! I'm sleepy. Sat up till four this morning play- Ing piquet with that young fool of a Marquis of Goozbury "—— you mistake me for : arm ladam, you forget yourself! Do key gobbler, that you poke me inthe rite? Why. have never ex- familiarity before outside of the smart set "— pertoaced sch tadve Miss Jimpson—“ Help! murder! ghosts! sperrits!" (ComrmienT 1908 BY JUDGE COMPANY PUBLISNERS, 228 FOURTH AVE. WaW YORK: NERVY NAT VISITS 2 Nervy Nat—"' Battling Nelson! Ah, | wonder whether it was the upper or the lower half that the half-nelson was named after? -Well, I've got a lot more head-liners to take in, so I'll just meander along.”* . 4. Miss Jumrson (of Bangor, Maine)--"' This here guide-book says ex how these critters alr Crocsaders, whatever them alr. Locks mighty life- Ife. Wonder ef it's a wax figger or jest plain tron. I'll poke it with my umberell, ez thar ain't no one a-lookin’ “—— Weatminster Habbey, av yer?” Nexvy Nat—"'I am a much misunderstood and maligned man, Silmm, and | warn you not to tamper with the volcano of my present emotions. | respect you. although you belong to the submerged tenth: 80 let me continue to 0 regard you." WESTMINSTER ABBEY,