Judge, 1907-04-27 · page 3 of 16
Judge — April 27, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("Audobonnet"):** This satirizes women's spring fashion, specifically a feud between French and German milliners over who created a particular hat style. The two fashionable women in the center represent this rivalry in the hat-making industry. **"Limerick Lives of the Illustrious":** Features a bearded man (likely a historical or theatrical figure, though identity is unclear from the image alone) in a humorous biographical limerick format—a popular Judge feature mocking notable personalities. **"The Clever Tragedian":** A story mocking an overly serious actor who takes theatrical roles so literally he becomes difficult to work with, eventually finding success in circus performance rather than legitimate theater. **"A Visible Aroma":** A brief anecdote about a child noticing an unpleasant smell from a streetcar's steam vents.
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AUDUBONNET. * Did Mrs. Gaythinge have her spring hat made by a French milliner?"" Mrs. Gunsusta—“ No; by a German taxidermist.”” LIMERICK LIVES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS. A VISIBLE AROMA, IS for Hughes, Hyde and Hearst— THIS happened in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where The last two badly whipped by the first. the sluggish sewers are quickened into life They got up and dusted, toward spring-time by the injection of steam, Their booms are all busted— It's a question which suffered the worst. during which time the manholes emit miasmic vapors. A little boy, clinging to his mother’s hand, THE CLEVER TRAGEDIAN. on the platform of a street-car, sniffed as the car NCE there was a tragedian who took darted past one of such openings and exclaimed, things seriously in real life. When the “Oh, mamma! just look at that smell !” company in which he was playing heavy parts went on the rocks at Sunkville, Montana, he SIMILAR, BUT DIFFERENT. approached the manager and said he would C4 ]'VE got a bright idea, George!” like his salary—three weeks past due—in or- der to ride home. Exclaimed the maiden fair To the young man by her side ++ Your salary ?” said the manager ; ** your As the sunbeams kissed her hair. salary? Go whistle for your money, my boy.” And springing lightly on a passing freight, the frivolous-minded manager twenty-threed With me and face the minister for the east, leaving the tragedian sitting on a I'd have a brighteeyed dear also."* pile of cross-ties, trying to think «Whistle for my money?” said he over and over again to himself. Then a luminous thought came to him, and he hit the grit for the next big burg, and after a week of practice got a job in a vaude- ville house. In a month he was billed all over the big circuit as the Human Mocking-bird, at a salary of $1,000 ($500 of which he actually got) a week, and press-agent stories thrown in gratis. When he saw his one-time manager, a month or so later, that worthy was surprised to have the tragedian greet him effusively. “1 took your advice,” said the tragedian-whistler, “and it's al- most a shame to cop the coin the way I'm doing now. Come in and irrigate your larynx with me.” This shows that many a word said in fun may be changed into coin—if you're serious-minded enoug! HERE are some people so mean that if they got a free seat in heaven they would sell it to a speculator. “No doubt,” said he; ‘¢and I'm sure If you would consent to go ADVICE OF A SPINSTER. “If | were married and my husband flirted with another woman, | would flirt with another man.” comicbooks.com