Judge, 1906-07-21 · page 3 of 16
Judge — July 21, 1906 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces from an early 20th-century American humor magazine. **Top cartoon** ("Conditional"): Shows a dock scene where a captain asks a colored stevedore to find his wife a job. The stevedore agrees only if the wife "doesn't git it"—racial satire mocking both working-class employment struggles and stereotypical dialect humor common to the era. **"The Loom of the Duma's Boom's Doom"**: A poem referencing Russia's Duma (parliament), likely commenting on early 20th-century Russian political turmoil and imperial instability. **Other sections** include brief comedic dialogue snippets about college workers and theatrical references, typical of Judge's mix of topical and generic humor. The page reflects period attitudes toward race, immigration, and international politics through satire.
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eh is CONDITIONAL. Cotoren stevepore—" Ah wants a day off, cap'n, ter look up a job fo’ mah wife.” Mate—"' Will you be back to-morrow?” Cotoren stevepore—* Yes, ef she don't git it.”” THE LOOM OF THE DUMA BOOM’S DOOM. FORETHOUGHT. N RUSSIA looms the Duma’s doom, SCT HAT fellow Mulkley you were engaged to at one time may have some of your old Which erstwhile had a blooming boom. love-letters, may he not?” asked the husband. “+ And aren't you afraid he might be ‘The czar and czaress, filled with gloom, cad enough to" Sit faming in a darkened room + Not a bit of it,” replied the wife decisively, + He knows I've got half a trunkful of Thatidoth resemble mach x tomb. his love-letters to reciprocate with if he ever does.” They sit and question as to whom They should send hurtling up the flume ; Likewise whom they should praise and groom. A few weeks since the Duma’s boom Filled all the royal house with rheum. Fate seemed to bear within her womb A child that threatened to assume Wondrous proportions and consume The czar, whose presence doth illume The empire—now see loom his doom, ‘To head off which who dares presume? But yet some say this Duma boom Is marked to-day for certain doom. They tell us Nick will soon resume His wonted strength and swift entomb The men who made this Duma loom And fill his palace with such gloom. Who knows if Duma faces doom, Or if there looms the Duma’s boom? STRICKLAND W. GILLILAN. PROMISING WORKMEN. Summer-hotel proprietor (proud ly all of my waiters are college men who are working their way through college.” Guest— Well, judging by the way they work your guests, they'll all be graduated with honors." Hi. Tragedy —« Did they call for the author 2" AT THe YOUNG LADIES: SEMINARY! Wil: Ayne—\* Call for him 1) Why, they came Deacon Mouse (appearing suddenly)—'* Good heavens! the sights one is compelled to see up on the stage after him.” about this neighborhood are positively demoralizing.”” comicbooks.com