Judge, 1907-11-23 · page 5 of 16
Judge — November 23, 1907 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a children's story comic, not political satire. "Little Johnny" finds teddy bears loose in his house and attempts to corral them. The bears cause chaos—sliding down the cellar door, escaping up the stairs, and creating general mayhem while Johnny tries to contain them. The "teddy bears" reference likely alludes to President Theodore Roosevelt's popularity and the merchandising craze surrounding him in the early 1900s (teddy bears were named after "Teddy" Roosevelt). The comic humor comes from Johnny's frustrated attempts to control the wild, mischievous bears, which escape into a bathtub and eventually end up hanging on a clothesline. It's lighthearted children's entertainment rather than political commentary.
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LITTLE JOHNNY AND THE TEDDY BEARS. THEY TRY TO PLAY A JOKE DN JOHN, AND FIND It's THEM THE JOKE IS ON. 1, The bears make such a wild uproar 2. It does no good to scold and say, A-sliding down the cellar-door “* Please go some other place and play.”* That Johnny tries in vain to stick ‘They laugh and shout and on, To work on his arithmetic. And think the joke is all on John, 3. It really was a great to‘do; : 4, Sal John, “Though I don’t want to shirk, He couldn't add up two and two. scamps won't let me do my work. Those No sympathy the Teddies feel; I'll show ‘em I can work a trick ‘They only play with greater zeal. Instead of my arithmetic.” 6. Now Johnny makes the figures fly ‘While they are hanging out to dry, mischief-makin, And not a bear will dare fo squ Was ‘squarely in a tub. Till Johnny tells them they may speak. COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JUDGE COMPANY, TUBLISWERS, 223 TOURTHC AVE., NEW YORK. ‘The First Series of the adventures of “Little Johnny and the Teddy Bears” ts now ready in handsome book-form. Price, 60 cent sale by book-dealers everywhere, or sent postpaid upon receipt of price by Judge Company, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. comicbooks.com