Judge, 1907-06-08 · page 15 of 16
Judge — June 8, 1907 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a submissions page for *Judge* magazine's amateur cartoonist competition, showcasing humorous single-panel cartoons and brief comic scenarios from readers. The cartoons employ period humor conventions: "And It Got Away" uses working-class dialect humor about a beer wagon collision; "A Diary of the Hunted" makes a pun equating a cookbook with game-hunting literature; "Can't See Themselves" satirizes young women's fashion choices through female hypocrisy; "An Alternative" uses wordplay about weeding flower beds versus flowers. Other entries target specific audiences: schoolteachers ("A Sentence"), struggling artists ("To Earn an Honest Penny"), and rural characters using exaggerated dialect. The jokes rely on malapropisms, puns, and social observation rather than political commentary. The page itself advertises the contest's modest payments ($5 first prize, $2.50 second), encouraging amateur participation while discouraging professionals. This was typical early-20th-century magazine content—accessible, genteel humor aimed at middle-class readers.
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Judge’s Amateur Contest This page is for JupGe’s amateur artist friends. It is open to all, whether subscribers or not. It is not a contest for prizes, but a chance for amateurs to try york in print. ‘The money awards for accepted drawings are made small for the purpose of preventing professionals from competing for the prizes. For the st picture accepted and published each week Jupes will | pay $5, f $5, for the second funniest $2.50, and ‘or all others $1 apiece. Read the following rules : Every drawing must bear upon the back the full name and Captions or other reading matter forming a part of the drawing must be plainly written underneath the dra i ame side of the cardboard or paper. Every drawing must be =a retin enitciont stamps for its recurs tn case ft ls oc ecoepend. Deswites in cannot be used if there are more than he series, and we would prefer not to have them offered in series atall.| When a series is accepted. the two or more pictures constituting the series must count as one drawing for the purposes of this contest. t for all accepted drawings in this contest will be made on or near the date of their publication in Jupce. Every drawing sent to us must be plainly addressed as follows: JUDGE (Amateur Contest), 225 FOURTH AVENUE, N. Y. CITY. AND IT GOT AWAY. “What youse snivelin’ fer, Dopey? We struck somethin’ ?” “ Yes—a loaded beer-wagoi Submitted by E, Rosenburgh, Rome, New York. A DIARY OF THE HUNTED. Customer—‘ Have you the—er— Lives of the Hunted "?"” Cterk—' No: but we have ‘The Diary of a Cook." Sebaitted by Wilbur C, Tuttle, Hamilton, Montana. CAN'T SEE THEMSELVES. “Ain't it fierce, the way the co-eds dress ?"" “Outrageous! No sense of taste at all.”” 13t Prize, $5.00) Sabmitted by W. F. Obland, Saginaw, Michigan. AN ALTERNATIVE. Sue—"' James, while | am gone you'd better weed out the flower-bed."” He—‘'! protest, Jane! It would be a simpler Job to flower out the weed-bed."* Sabmitied by Elwood R. Mctatyre, Portage, Wisconsin. TO EARN AN HONEST PENNY. Ant epiror—"'I have told you we don't want your" — Lonc-nairep yourn—"I have no drawings to-day. I came to sell you all the’ rejection slips" you have been sending me for the past five years.”* (Second Prize, $2.50.) Submitted by Max Rolnik, New voru'Ciy. 7 AS VIEWED BY A NEIGHBOR. The situation—as seen from Lincoln. Submitted by an admirer of the Commoner. pocket Livi of ir and twe ahed in 5 ie: Sabmitted by C. Crittenden, Ocean View, Virginia. Bese the i w rds be: ty Black-birdy Beae and ‘il tsa sort of thing. A SENTENCE. Teacher—" Now, Willie, make me up a sen- tence with the words boys, bees and bear in it.” Wittie—" Boys bees bare when dey goes in swimmin’.” Sabmitied by Thomas R. Atkinson, Lowell, Massachusetts, NOT THE WALKING KIND. Farmer—" What yer doin’, Willle Wintie—"' Pa sald he saw a brick- Punkvilis, but none of these won't do it."* Submitted by Harry Gordon, Omaha, Nebraska, comicbooks.com