Judge, 1906-11-03 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 3, 1906 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon at bottom, titled "Uncle Sam Gives Baby Cuba Some Building-Blocks," depicts Uncle Sam (representing the U.S.) as an adult supervising a small child labeled "Cuba" playing with building blocks. The four-panel sequence shows the child struggling with the blocks, which progressively topple or collapse. This satirizes American intervention in Cuba's affairs, likely following the Spanish-American War (1898) or early Cuban independence period. The joke suggests the U.S. patronizes Cuba as an incompetent child unable to manage its own construction/governance without American supervision collapsing. It critiques U.S. imperial paternalism toward the Caribbean nation during the era of American expansionism.
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ADVANCED ARITHMETIC. F a banker pays a barber, say, fifteen cents For shaving h sand-dollar throat, How much will the banker take as recompense For shaving a hundred.dollar note? Ma farm is a drug on the market, and its yield Is applied on its mortgage debt, Aid the farm-hand gets twenty dollars in t How much does the pharmacist get? Ifa dress-suit costs you a sixty-dollar s And the tailor insists that he has lost ; If the dress-suit takes all the money that you've got, How much will a law-suit cst? If a full-sized jag is in one small jug, And the jagger is jugged at the bar, And if seventeen glasses go into one mug, ‘Then how large is the family jar? Ifa cuat-fitter makes forty dollars in a week When the rules of his union will permit, And a gas-fitter makes forty dollars in a leak, How many could a counterfeiter fit? Ifa horse-breaker breaks a race-horse and a mare, And the race-horse broke and lost the race ; Ifa broker went broke when the horse went in the air, How much would a house-breaker break ? THE FARMER AS BAIT. CN AN examination-paper in zodlogy the question was asked, ~ Of what use to the farmer are the earthworm and the slug ?” The reply of one promising pupil read, «The earthworm is of use to the farmer because he eats the insects and minute animals that are destructive to crops ; he is also useful because he can use him as bait when the farmer goes fishing.” JUDGE'S FAVORITES. MATTIE FORSYTHE IN ‘THE SIX DAISY GIRLS.” Six little daistes nodding in the sun. What eye can tell which ts the fairest one? Viewed alone, each daisy fair Will seem the prettiest daisy there. MEMORY. THE things I should remember Are the things that I forget. And the things that I've furgotten Always cause me vain regret. But by forgetting to remember And remembering to forget, T hope that there will come a time When I'll be happy yet. ‘TOUCHED HIS HEART. Y experience I had interviewing old man Skriggs this morning,” says the heart- interest reporter to the who-slayed-this-beautiful- gyurl reporter. + What was it?" asks the latter. got along talk out of him about how he earned his first dollar, and then, just for curiosity, Tasked him to tell me how he spent his first dol- lar. Do you know, it made him feel so badly, just thinking of letting go of a dollar, that he be- gan weeping all over his desk." THE LATEST. S6\JILL you come into my parlor 2” said the newspaper-writer to the lie. “ DEFECTED.” FAMILY of children is under discussion by the younger members of a neighboring household. + There's more’n seventeen of them !" exclaims one of the youth- fuls. «George is knock-kneed, Mary is bow-legged, another is cross- eyed, and if the baby is all right he’s the only one that’s not de- fecte UNCLE SAM GIVES BABY CUBA SOME BUILDING-BLOCKS. comicbooks.com