Judge, 1907-09-07 · page 3 of 18
Judge — September 7, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top cartoon ("Impressionistic"):** A man and woman view a landscape. He claims it's "yours," she prefers it "without figures"—satirizing Impressionist art's subjective nature and disagreements over aesthetic value. **Middle section:** "Snarls of a Soured Sage" contains brief cynical observations about human nature (corruption, materialism, hypocrisy). The accompanying illustration shows a grumpy character dispensing wisdom. **"Applied Geometry" section:** A logical syllogism humorously "proves" a fisherman is a liar through geometric reasoning—typical of Judge's wordplay humor. **Bottom cartoon ("At a Wagner Concert"):** Two audience members discuss the music's quality, with one sarcastically suggesting it would sound "more like music" if played differently—mocking Wagner's famously complex, challenging compositions and audiences' pretended sophistication.
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IMPRESSIONISTIC. He Sne—“' Thanks! SNARLS OF A SOURED SAGE. HE hand-shaker is often the leg-puller. Girls know that kisses have a face- value. Imitation of another is limitation ot one’s sell. Schemes of the naughty should come to naught. Better push your work than be always pushed by it, It’s better to be a hustling dunce than an idle genius. Love of gold is this country’s only "+ yellow peril.” Trusts find that corruption on the in- side means eruption on the outside. The up-to-date wife always wants to draw ninety-nine per cent. interest on the bonds of matrimony. When a man can stand being stung without raising a public holler we label him a philosopher. Before the modern girl wears her wedding-gown she’s pricing divorce-suits at the legal department-stores. Some men think they're abused by the world, when they're really suffering from inflammation of the imagina- tion, Ever notice that when a woman tells about a horrid man who tried to flirt with her on the street her pride be- gins to overshadow her indignation? rere rev snevun. NOT ELIGIBLE. Deacon Brown— An’ yo" neber stole nuffin’ 2" Applicant for church membership—«« No, sah. Deacon Brown— Not eben a little chickin 2” Applicant—" No, sab.” Deacon Brown— No watahmilyons ?” Applicant— No, sah." | Deacon Brown— Ain't neber had no deevoces 2” || Applicant— No, sah.” i Deacon Brown— Look yere, niggah! git away {um il ny | yere! Dis yere ain't no political pahty—dis yere’s a chu'ch !" i WHEN you have something to say to a mule don’t say it behind his back. You adr tre the view? Then marry me and it is yours." prefer my landscape without figures.” APPLIED GEOMETRY. PROPOSITION 23. To prove that a fisherman is a liar, By axiom 1., an angle is a deviation. By axiom 12, a lie is also a deviation. Hence, a fisherman being one who angles, deviates ; therefore, things equal to the same thing being equal to each other, the fisher- man is a liar. QED. Corollary 1. From the ubove it may readily be deduced that the angler is an unmitigated prevaricator. IF HE COULD DO IT AGAIN. 44P)R. THUDLEIGH preached his wife's first husband's funeral sermon, didn’t he 2" “Yes. And I'll bet if he could do it again he'd emphasize the opinion he expressed about the poor man having gone to a more de- lightful place than this world is.” BEING made love to by a brunette is no ight matter. AT A WAGNER CONCERT. “How do you liks It, father?”* “| was just telling your mother that I'd like It better if it sounded more like muste."* comicbooks.com