Judge, 1908-12-12 · page 6 of 16
Judge — December 12, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page presents "Reflections of Uncle Ezra," a humorous rural-gossip column featuring folksy anecdotes about small-town characters and their misadventures. The satire targets various contemporary social issues through exaggerated country humor. Key targets include: **medical quackery** (a man disabled after taking patent medicine), **excessive religiosity** (prayer meetings disrupted by sailors' profanity), **fashionable crazes** (the "Salome dance" craze sweeping New York), and **urban affectation** (wealthy women copying Manhattan fashions). The accompanying cartoons mock **seasickness remedies** and social pretension. The column's humor relies on contrasting rustic common sense with urban sophistication, suggesting rural skepticism toward modern trends and city life. The overall tone is gently mocking of both small-town gossip and urban fashionability—typical Judge magazine satirical fare targeting American society's follies.
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REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. T THE huskin’ bee the other night Elmer Spink got a red ear. Some feller hit him on the ear with a neckyoke for gettin’ too gay around the other feller's gal. In religion old Cap Whipple, of He don’t believe in nothin’, and lives our town, is an acrostic. in’ ornery pall-bear- er at some funeral, most feller likes best of all to be floor mana- ger at so) Uncle Ephraim Teeter took one bottle of Binks's Compound, and don’t have to use his erutch now, He has been in bed ever since. Our milliner, Miss Amy Stubbs, has been down to York to have en of our most pol- ished young ladies, but she ack 4 smile, At the Hard Shell meetin’ he of the coal stove with tar p Lem Hig we dan meled. her face ri assent € have lined the in- er to keep the ns went to | sid ayer meetin’, the A FUNNY Little girl QUESTION can the fishes child, Little fish—"* What dreadt that, mamm: ‘Mamma fish the sound of | Chat, my child, is man voice minister called on him t get up and Cap'n Hig give his experien: gins got up and started to tell ‘em about the time he licked eight deck- hands while crossin’ the Bay of Fun- dy, and his language was so pictur- esque that they had him pinched for disturbin’ the There is a place for sea stories, but it at a prayer meetin’, Mrs, Amos Green tried to com- mit suicide the other day by eatin’ some potted chicken from Chicago. She called the melancholia, from readin’ the comic has got a di \ Teacher—* You don't play with any boys, do you, Algemon Merrion —* Nope ; they won't let me wearin’ of silk hats by nen, because their manufacture en- tails se much eruelty to the poor silkworms ap'n Lem Higgins says the only way to cure seasickness is to tir of fat pork to a string and swaller it. Then pull the pork up and down in your throat by the string. When a feller does this, he never has seasickness any more or any- thing else, ‘There are said to be forty-seven Salome eratin’ in New York, As the Salome danee is of the Seven Veils, about forty of 'em must be heppin’ without veils. [tis ionally wuth while to live York, n Mrs. Frishy Frink, the leader of art set, has got y parle: New York. She Iso seat a pire she Je-cloth ty puten it so th real joh pd down in the al won't Elmer Spink S ket and never me earved Le has yeot a yeoe on the Singer buildin? W rode up id his fare butt ce to take singin’ le tore nite 8 that buildin’ few York pa feller h ut himself is after he ix dead, and then he can’t » Ladies’ Literary Society of our burg has come back hard at the Rents, who are advocatin’ the abel- Parise di'dite 7 ishin’ of birds on women’s hats, by Cormeatili'e: hier passin’ a resolution denounein’ the Mr, Jobnso) Dar's just what Ds \ SUSPICIOUS OUTLOOK It do look miyhty suspicious to see yo" lurkin? around Farmer s thinkin’, pahson, when FE seed yo" in de vicinity. comicbooks.com