Judge, 1908-07-18 · page 5 of 14
Judge — July 18, 1908 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several unrelated satirical pieces typical of late 19th/early 20th-century humor magazines: **"How Like a Woman"** (top): A domestic comedy about a wife complaining her husband is up before breakfast, expecting him to have finished chores. **"Reflections of Uncle Ezra"** (left): Rambling anecdotes about rural characters and small-town life—common filler content mocking country folk and their eccentricities. **"Out of the Mouths of Babes"** (right): A child's innocent religious misinterpretation, a recurring joke format. **"A Diplomatic Husband"** (bottom): Shows a husband managing his wife's demands by giving her mining shares—satirizing marital negotiation and women's newfound financial interests. The cartoons reflect turn-of-century attitudes toward gender roles, rural simplicity, and emerging women's economic participation, presented through gentle domestic humor rather than sharp political satire.
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» HOW LIKE Mr. Cockrill—"* Well, well! You're Mrs. Henyen—* Yes. U thought I'd REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. PESSIMI is a feller that stays to hum and waits for it to A rain, while the other folks go to the picnic. A nature fakir is a woman who uses an old stocking. for, rat. The last time Hod F play called Vaudeville. work figgering out the plot. There are lots of old anything. What's in a name Hi Spink’s latest heir was born with a full set of teeth, and Hi don’t know whether he is going to be a President or an iron-jawed cu rs was down to York he went tc a said it was fair in spots, but he had hard ‘tlers in our midst who never settle for man in some Hank Tumms for infant industri doing: so much got nineteen kids, sal this talk about Cong blame lie, Hank hi done nothing for him, ly way to git the laugh on a magazine editor is to tear up nuscript and throw it into the ending it. Hiram Huggins has got a new oatmobile, which It will run about forty rod, and then they bh ** runabout out and fi There is several kinds of mollycoddles, but they all w ke cigarette pers that a feller down to York has got motor- boat that kin make seventy knots an hour, Huh! that's nothing. Hod Peters had a boat out on Duck Lake last year that mad knots a minute, The heaving line got tangled up in the propeller wh ocks and by the If Andy Carne for the m Thi then the grass in pay four dollars to have it cut. There ain’t a campaign orator in the business that couldn't make more money selling patent medicine. Many a successful poet got his start writing epithets for tomb- stuns. The diffe really wants to die poor, he might try writing t world. A feller prays for rain, and it rains, and front yard grows about a foot, and he has to js that the ce between a statesman and a demagogt statesman has got the jo The funniest thing I ever see was a feller with one tooth trying to eat sweet corn off the cob. ROY K. MOULTON, A DIPLOMATIC HUSBAND. His wife was always kicking because he spent his time while home from work in doping up the stock mar- ket. She said stocks made fools of people. So he gave wif early every momni 66 EXCUSE me," sputtered the victim to the barber; * but if you intend to put so much lather in my mouth I wish you'd shave me with whipped cream or mayonnaise dressing.” A WOMAN! pre breakfast this morni: laying done early and have the afternoon to myself." A CHOICE, | | Wines N CS cere Fatt Tayo OUT OF y in to turn to the Lord.” shares in a mine, and she was up t the paper ‘THE MOUTHS OF BABES, Sunday-schoo! teacher—"* What are you going, to be w » be a pirate till E gets old an’ sick, an’ you grow up, HORSE-POWER. 66 LJOW many ho Jf machine It's too he horse, so 1 gene two,”” comicbooks.com