Judge, 1907-04-13 · page 16 of 16
Judge — April 13, 1907 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This six-panel comic strip satirizes a character called "Nervy Nat" adopting fashionable Parisian affectations. The humor centers on Nat treating pigs like fashionable pets—a absurd exaggeration of how wealthy Parisians (particularly women) carried small dogs as accessories. In each panel, Nat acts pretentiously while accompanied by pigs, speaking in affected language to aristocratic-sounding characters like "Lord Bristlegrunt." The satire mocks both the fashion-obsessed French elite and Americans who slavishly imitate European sophistication. The joke is that Nat takes the frivolous trend to ridiculous extremes—grooming pigs, dressing them in fine clothing, and treating them with the care society reserved for lap dogs. The final panel includes a French police sergeant, reinforcing the Parisian setting while poking fun at French accents and American tourists abroad.
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1. Nexvy NatT—" Well, for the love of Impossible purps! rubber shoes on a mut! Can you beat that? La Belle Paree, your women are entrancing— cept when they make fools of dogs that are already in the last stages of imbe- cllity. Look at that wretched, palsied, blear-eyed, useless sissy ki-yi"’— 2 Lord Bristlegrunt, you'll pardon my forgetting to put your cigarette-case in your pocket; otherwise you are perfectly dressed for the aft- ernoon, I intend to make pigs the fashion. The day of the measly mut is over. Be careful in crossing the street, now, and don't soll your chamois gloves "— 5. Nervy Nat—'‘If I don't have broiled bacon to-night It will be because I've forgotten how to eat. And I gave him one of my best dress-shirts, with the collar attached—with the collar attached "— COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JVOGE COMPANY PUBLENERS 228 FOURTH AVE. REW YORK 2. Nervy Nat—" There, Lord Bristlegrunt, that tie is most becoming. You don't look as cheerful as a pig ought to look just after a bath in lavender water, with a shave thrown in, Don't you understand? I'm making a pet out of you." 4. Nervy Nat—" Stop, you boon companion of baked beans! you college- chum of fried eggs! you-you—— Don't you see you'll knock that old lady over? And just because a neurotic, shivering, weak-limbed, wall-eyed black- and-tan coughed at you” 6. Seroent Capuc—‘‘ Ha, hal It is zat | arrest brozzers—two peegs—yes?”” Nervy Nat—It is—ha, hal—that | ought to hand you a paste in the map, but | might make it look funnier than it is. Then i'd laugh myself to death, so I refrain.” NERVY NAT OUTDOES THE PARISIENNES. Nove. —The First Series of Nervy Nat's Adventures is now ready, handsomely bound, in book-form. Price, 7.5 cents ; 10 cents additional for postage when ordered by mail, Address JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York.