Judge, 1909-02-13 · page 13 of 20
Judge — February 13, 1909 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains short humorous sketches typical of early 20th-century American satirical magazines. The jokes rely on wordplay and ironic reversals: **"Memory Training"** plays on lending money as a memory aid—implying the lender won't forget. **"Kind to Humorists"** mocks elephants' trunks as an easy target for bad jokes (a tired pun even then). **"The Next Best Thing"** subverts Sunday school morality: a child, told to "heap coals of fire" on enemies, literally shoves one into an ash barrel instead—dark humor about misapplied wisdom. **"Pavement Philosophy"** offers contradictory folk remedies presented as wisdom. **"Marital Remarks"** uses the wife's cutting response to deflate a self-made man's pride. **"Still at His Trade"** contrasts a sailor becoming a carpenter with "building air castles"—building nothing substantial, wasting effort. **"Turning the Tables"** shows a lasso-themed comic sequence (text unclear). **"An Eye to Business"** depicts someone presenting a meteorite as a planetary artifact—obvious fraud played for laughs.
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MEMORY TRAINING. 66] FORGET so easily. 1 wish I could do some- thing to exercise my mem- ory.”" “That’s simple, said his friend. “ Just lend me ten déllars, and let me know if you forget it” KIND TO HUMORISTS. Phil Ologist — “* Pro- fessor, why is an ele- phant’s proboscis called a trunk?” Professor Grouchmore “To give the half-wit- ted humorists a chance to write fool jokes about pasting steamship lubels on it.” “STRIKING E ‘TURNING BELLS.” GUT THE ‘TABLE THE NEXT BEST THING. 46 ]\Y HEAVENS, Wil- lie! where did you get that black eye “Johnny Smith hit me with his fist."" “And I hope you re- membered what your Sun- day-school teacher said about heaping coals of fire on the heads of our en mies?” “Well, I didn’t have any coal, so f stuck his head in the ash barrel." PAVEMENT PHILOSOPHY. THE very best remedy for snake bites—let it alone. “Keep moving " is a good remedy for cold fect. not of much avail To even try the old-time dodge Of salt upon its tail. MARITAL REMARKS. GOES, sir,"” said the mil- lionaire, “I can say, with pride, that I am a self- made man,”” “Well, there is no ac- counting for tastes, Some folks are easily pleased, "” said his wife, STILL AT HIS TRADE. Jack Tar—"Hello, Jings! what are you doing nowa- days ?”* Land lubber —** Carpen- tering.”” Jack Tar —" What are you building 2” Land libber—* Air cas- tles."” 7 Lasso Jack—" UM have to foller yerlead, 3. Lasso Jack right into 1 GRATE AEROLITE Fee From PLANIT DURIn tHE STOM AGE SUVENIRS = ascts | AGE — WACGH CHA) BERS, EARINGS cee roma some 7 did specimen of an thousands of years ago.” isa splen- etary system ‘The next day. comicbooks.com