Judge, 1906-08-04 · page 7 of 16
Judge — August 4, 1906 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces targeting American social attitudes circa early 1900s: **"A Diplomatic Mistake"** mocks schoolyard violence—a boy gets beaten for outperforming a classmate, suggesting brutish anti-intellectualism was normalized. **"Three Cheers of Cheerful Poetry"** satirizes saccharine optimism, repeating "pretty good world after all" while acknowledging hardship, mocking shallow motivational platitudes. **"A Relief Movement"** jokes about philanthropic hypocrisy: a wealthy man claims to help disabled people while actually using charity as an excuse to escape his music teacher's complaints. **"The President's Advice"** references Theodore Roosevelt's advocacy for racial uplift and self-help. The humor turns dark: a man assists a Black burglar, misinterpreting Roosevelt's call for helping African Americans as justification for aiding actual theft. **Other brief pieces** mock Russian Jewish persecution and Ottoman backwardness, reflecting period prejudices. The page reflects Judge's satirical approach to contemporary social issues through humor often rooted in ethnic and class stereotypes.
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A DIPLOMATIC MISTAKE. Uncte Jack—"" Well, Bobby, did you make any mistakes at school to-day ?"* Bovsr—"' Yes: I did an example correctly that Bill Mulligan failed on.” Uncte Jack—"" But that wasn't a mistake.” Bossy—" Yes, it was. After school he licked me for doing it.”” ‘THREE CHEERS OF CHEERFUL POETRY. [TS. Pretty good world after al, my friend ; It’s a pretty good world after all, my friend ; It’s a pretty good world after all, my friend ; It’s a pretty good world after all. It’s a pretty good world after all. It's a pretty good world after all. Spring, summer, winter and fall, my friend, Sing ho! fur the jolly old ball, my friend— If you've read this you may recall, my friend It's a pretty good world after all. Tt’s a pretty good world after all. It’s a pretty good world after all. Suppose the skies are a trifle gray ; ‘There's less of the false than of the true, I guess I've said it about enough, Suppose that night is longer than day ; What is the use of feeling blue? But they say that the people like that stuff, ‘Suppose that things don't come your way— Fortune is going to smile on you— And when magazines éuy that line of guff It’s a pretty good world after all. It's a pretty good world after all. It’s a pretty good world after all. A RELIEF MOVEMENT. 44GIR.” said the aggrieved musie-teacher to the philanthropist who lived in the apartment beneath him, “you agreed to pay me for all my time provided that I devoted it only to the pupils you should send me.” “1 did," acknowl- edged the philanthro- pist pleasantly. “You gave me to understand it was in connection with your work along certain lines of relief.” “That is true.” “Yet the only pu- pils you have sent me are armless people, who cannot possibly use a piano.” “T know. I may * have omitted to men- tion that I was doing this for my own re- lief." EXASPERATING. sep. hate to he a Russian Jew.” Yes?” “Sure, It must be very annoying to be massacred so often.” SOME. enterprising Yankee has lately introduced the Turk- ish bath into Turkey. i Wy a At] | MIXED ON HIS COLOR-SCHEME. “So I suppose, John Henry Peeper, that you painted the town a very brilliant red last evening ?"” Pad the so ast night, my dear: but everything has such a decidedly blue tinge this morn- ing that | think | must have been mistaken.” TRANKLIN Ps ADAMS. THE PRESIDENT’S ADVICE. 66.\JHERE on earth have you been, Henry, at this hour of the night?” “Why, I found a colored man was trying to get into our chicken -house, so I went out and assisted him, We had an aw- ful time getting into the thing, but he has just gone with four of our finest pullets.” “Henry Peck, are you a raving maniac? What on earth do you mean?” imply what I I endeavor al- ways to be a loyal citizen of the repub- lic; and didn’t you see that President Roosevelt said we should help the negro to help himself?” Waggsby—" Once there was an Orange- man at a Hibernian picnic.” Naggsby—“Well, goon with the story.” Wagesby—« That is all there is of it.” Naggsby — «It's mighty short.” Waggsby —+ But just as long as the Orangeman’s stay at the picnic.” comicbooks.com