Judge, 1907-03-09 · page 3 of 16
Judge — March 9, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of early 20th-century domestic humor: **"Afraid He'd Get Wet Feet"** (top): A seaside scene where a mother worries her baby has fallen down a well. The joke plays on middle-class anxiety about children's safety and mothers' overprotectiveness. **"An Awful Warning"** (left): A cautionary poem about a man struck by various misfortunes (a Snout, Struts) after mistreating someone. It appears to be a moral fable about comeuppance, common in Judge's satirical content. **"Making It Easier for Him"** and **"A New One Every Week"** (right): Two brief domestic sketches about marriage—one about a husband's financial worries, another about a wife creating weekly surprises. These mock conventional marriage dynamics and middle-class domestic life. The illustrations use exaggerated caricature typical of Judge's satirical style.
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AFRAID HE'D GET WET FEET. ‘Mamma, baby-brother has fallen down the old well!"" “What? without his rubbers on?” AN AWFUL WARNING. HAD last night an awful fright. Upof a lonely path, As I walked out, I saw a Srout A-struggling with a Srath. And as they fit and each one hit The other with its fist, A great big Srick picked up a stick And struck at them—but missed. And then a Sreck, with bulgy neck. He got into the game. ‘The way he struck that little Sruck, T swow, it was a shame. And then a Srack came down the track And added to the stir; And likewise, too, a fiery Scroo, And eke a furry Srurr. Full long fit they in fearsome fray. While I stood quaking by, With one sole wish—that some great Srish Would pick me up and fly. in amongst links of wriggling Srinks And that most awful Srunxt. And I was rent by tooth of Srent And torn claws of Srot; And that big Srunk stepped on my trank— Which made me middling hot. And then I woke, for day had broke, And I was wide awake, (Thave a hunch to-night for lunch Mince-pie I should not take.) ‘THOSE HAPPY YEARS. $+ FOR five years his married life was ideal," said the friend ++ For five years only ?" asked the other. s. During those years he was lost with a polar expedition.” MAKING IT EASIER FOR HIM. THE conventional husband was making the conventional spring-bonnet remarks, “After I have worried all winter over the money I was trying so hard to save,” he said, “I find that you have spent it all for your new hat.” “+ Yes," replied his sweet young wife. many of your worries as possible.” ++ want to relieve you of as A NEW ONE EVERY WEEK. Otp Youns tavy—"* Do you know, colonel. | think | was cut cut for an inventor. | seem to be creating something new every week.” Cotonet —"* In other words. a new wrinkle every week comicbooks.com