Judge, 1908-11-07 · page 5 of 16
Judge — November 7, 1908 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several distinct pieces of humor: **Top sections** feature poems and satirical sketches about domestic life and social etiquette—typical Judge fare mocking Victorian-era manners and child-rearing. "The Stuttering Soubrettee" and "The Height of Affability" appear to be social commentary on theatrical performers and their pretensions. **"At the Zoo"** depicts a woman and child at what appears to be a zoo enclosure, with dialogue about prison wards and animal behavior—likely satire about social class or animal-like behavior in human society. **"A Fall Pastoral"** is a six-panel comic strip showing goats and farm animals, with dialogue suggesting slapstick humor about rural life and animal mischief. The overall content represents typical early-20th-century American satirical humor focused on social observation and domestic situations.
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ipl i “ Hey, kids, look wot Mamie calls her king !"* THE STUTTERING SONNETEER. Soulful Songs of the Humble Counter-jumper to the Haughty Saleslady, BY SUS-SUSGAM & 8US-SUS-STINSON. OW sus-sus-slowly dud-dud-drag the hours! seems a whole eter-nun-nun-ity ince eight o’clock, when you sus-smiled at me A smile like sus-sus-sunshine ‘tween the showers, ‘That mum-mum-made me think of leafy bowers In some fair wuh-wuh-woodland, where with,thee My sus-sus-soul communes in ecstasy Amid the pup-pup-perfume of the flowers. And that reminds me, bub-bub-by the way, ‘To ask what pup-pup-perfum I always yuh-yuh-yuh-yub-use sac But I would rah-rah-rather ch Your kind. Is it nuh-new-mown hay? "Twill henceforth sus-sus-scent my mum-mum-muse. ‘THE HEIGHT OF AFFABILITY. AT THE Z00. Randall—* Falls all over you, do-s she?"" Willie Wire—!*. ite di we age . tbe more jj ‘llie Wise—"* Say, ma, is dis de prison ward ? Rogers e couldn't be any more affable if I Ma What do yeu sak that for, Willie?" were her cook.”” Willie Vt ise—* Because all de animals in dis ward is got on striped suits.”* READILY ACCOUNTED FOR. TERRIBLE DEPRIVATION. Charley Litewate—" 1 am greatly troubled with a rush of blood Stella—* Has she a Southern accent?” to the head. How do you account for it, doctor?” Bella ** Yes, She can't, get enough r's in a month to eat Ductor—" Well, Nature abhors a vacuum, you know."* oysters." A FALL PASTORAL. 1. Pig— Say, Sadie, come over to the tree 2. ——Too Iusy just now, Sadie, to say and bunt some apples down for us. —— thanks. 5. ——Watch me hook ‘em! Best pippins jaw, smarty, how are you going 4. ——Ah, I see a couple, piggy, that you in the place.” won't get comicbooks.com