Judge, 1908-10-17 · page 4 of 16
Judge — October 17, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical stories and illustrations typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine humor. **"Judge's Favorite"** features a photograph of an elegant woman in a long dress, captioned as depicting a character from literature named "Algeria." **"Repartee"** is a short joke about a hotel dispute over broken glassware and payment. **"The Impossible"** is a poem listing things that cannot occur, including politicians losing positions and "sinners on the sidewalk from directoire dresses crying." **"He Met With Reverses"** and **"What Did He Mean?"** are illustrated jokes about misunderstandings. **"As to Fog"** discusses climate differences between America and England, with humor about London fog. The final section discusses "Prohibition orators" and their characteristic sideburns—likely satirizing temperance movement activists popular in early 20th-century America.
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A PROGRESSIVE AGE. 667M A PRACTICAL and experienced widow," said the I woman in black, ‘and I want to look at some coffins without any foolishness.” The undertaker looked up with the unhappy smile of his craft. “+ We have them all styles and prices," he replied soft- ly and hopefully. “And how about trading stamps? mitted the propri- ctor, almost losing his professional “The truth is that at these solemn moments our customers do pois not, as a rule, 2 any desire for stamps."" “T guess 1 know a solemn moment all right," rejoined the widow; ‘but t ug itsolemner. L've just lost tointend to lese koo clock into the “8 no use in ‘THE LOST LINK m my third, and « JUDGE'S FAVORITE. ed that in HARRIET BURT, PRIMA DONNA IN “ALGERIA. the race for busi- Enehan With manner pleasi What wonder we an in danee exper wetty, pert, all tor Burt! ness he was being left behind. a. REPARTEE. | Hotel walked up to the bar, where HE host of the Red De Ariz Tl jest as soon." dl every glass dropped on to the “Yes, gen'I’men,”’ said Bill Jessly looking at the host al the of a.44; atin’ my words, becuz t will be all that I hev been able to ext sence They bee THE IMPOSSIBLE. " applying; sneaking and a-lyiny Nor village beaux in Sunday clothes from at the sermon shying; Nor the innocent on glory bent the prize conte: E MET WITH REVERSE: phat’s th’ matther wid me, is it? It's owin’ to a int at th’ rattle lasht noight, whin me number 9 wor called, 3 who hild number 6, towld me Oi wor holdin’ me card upsoide down. Nor automobile scorchers from the high-s| Finnigan—* An* wor ita 6 ye hild ? Nor sinners on the sidewalk from directoire dresses eying. O'Kourke—* Shure, it wor; but Casey had to shtand me on me head MAMILTON POPE GALT, befoor Oi cud see it thot way. AS TO FOG. HE Cape Cod man and the Londoner were travel- ing on the same train together from Liverpool to #," said the Yankee, ‘we do have consid’- rable fog out our way. I've seen it so thick that the landladies of our summer boardin’ houses could ladle it out and u vy part of the fic so ing: companion, London," said his travel- but our climate is too dirty to per- it. mit of our ©: see, the fog we really We burn so much soft coal, you use it instead of peat when we want a quick fi And the Yankee took out the litte Americ he wore in his button-hole and put it away wallet. in his adoxes of life is made manifest NE OF the p: wh Wf the average none inspects the port sroup of Probibition orators, Most of them w ar Wife—" John, a hot Hushand (ationly) ot an awful crust.” comicbooks.com