Judge, 1907-12-07 · page 39 of 48
Judge — December 7, 1907 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several discrete satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor magazine content. **"Do You Want to Be King?"** is a whimsical poem addressing childhood dreams and imagination, contrasting fairy-tale fantasies with reality. **"Time's Changes"** depicts a couple's Christmas shopping habits before and after marriage—a common social satire about how matrimony changes behavior and priorities. **"Every Bone Broken"** and **"Appropriate Judicial Action"** are brief wordplay jokes: the first plays on a phrase about injuries; the second mocks legal language and trust-busting actions (likely referencing contemporary antitrust cases). **"The Tragedy of a Lost and Found Five-Dollar Bill"** is a six-panel comic strip following a couple's lost money. A husband finds his wife's lost five dollars, but rather than replacing their dinner funds, they spend it celebrating the "lucky find," leaving them still without Christmas dinner—satirizing working-class financial struggle and poor decision-making during the holiday season. The overall theme emphasizes how economic hardship and life circumstances constrain ordinary people's Christmas celebrations.
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DO YOU WANT TO BE KING? © YOU want to be king of the fairy isles Where the dream-ship stops, my boy? They lie in a golden mist of smiles, ‘There are three, and the great- est, Joy! Do you want to be king and'wear the crown ‘That is wrought by the fairies glad? And rule o'er the isle where sandmen brown Are waiting for you, my lad? Do you want to be king? We'll sail to-night ; No bogies need we fear ; Your ship's of ruby coral, bright— As red as your lips, my dear. TIME'S CHANGES. The first Christmas shopping after they elie iy Their Christmas shopping some years later. The beautiful isles are yours, O King! Peace, Happiness, and Joy ! And the wind o'er the sea is whispering, EVERY BONE BROKEN. “Rest! rest !" to my kingly boy. wavran saventey crane, 66 AND every bone was broken.” AN APPALLING SITUATION. Every Done in his body “No; every bone in his pocket.” Skedunk, December 18th. EAR NIECE —Would you rather have me send you a present for De Christmas or take the money for my fare (and Uncle Hezekiah's) ‘APPROPRIATE JUDICIAL-ACTION:, to New York to speiid the helidays hth you? 66 WHAT was done by the court in that corsct-trust case ? Your affectionate aunt, JEMIMA Hiccins, “A say was granted: TOO GOOD TO LAST. A DANGEROUS BENT. Large—* The good die young.” SOME men are earnestly bent on giving their families a happy Christ Little—“ That's the reason I never make new-vear resolutions.” mas, and others are just as earnestly broke on it. THE TRAGEDY OF A LOST AND FOUND FIVE-DOLLAR BILL. 1. Hussy—"Well, dear, good-bye. Here's 2. Mary—"' Goodness gracizus! | have lost th: 3. Hussy—"Ahal Here's five dollars right our last five dollars.’ If you go out to-day don't __five dollars Jack gave me and it was our la: off the bat. Perhaps Mary won't get thote things lose it. It's all we'll have for our Christmas din- she wanted! What?" ner. See?™ 4. Hussy—" Maybe we won't enjoy our Christ- a 6, Mary—" You fourd the five dollars I lost !"" mas dinner. Oh, no! That was a lucky find."* Hussy—‘ And we get no dinner |"* h, thank you, dear, but—I—I— went out-t-t to-day and I—I lost the five dollars you gave me." comicbooks.com