Judge, 1909-02-20 · page 13 of 16
Judge — February 20, 1909 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page mocks **Alfred Austin**, England's poet laureate, whose recent poem "Unto the Last" was published in American newspapers. Judge ridicules Austin's work as mediocre, claiming that members of the fictional "Cook County Poets' Union, Local 4-11-44" could write equally good verse. The satire works by presenting three parodies of Austin's sentimental nature poetry (about plovers, rooks, and sparrows). The joke is that Austin's flowery, melancholic style—seemingly profound—is actually formulaic and uninspired, easily replicated by common poets from Chicago. This is **nationalist satire**: American writers mocking English cultural pretension. The reference to "Hearst" (likely William Randolph Hearst) suggests the poem's American newspaper syndication was itself seen as a commercial stunt rather than artistic merit. The remaining page content consists of unrelated humor pieces and period advertisements (Sunny Brook Whiskey, Pears' Soap, Cook's Imperial).
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a SHEARS AND PASTE-POT ENGLAND'S HIGH STANDARD OF POETRY. The latest poem by Alfred Aust England’s poet laureate, is entitled Unto the Last.” No doubt the ex- clusive right to the publication of this poem in the United States has been ob- tained at considerable cost, but we are almost certain our readers will agree with us when we say that something equally good could have been delivered by almost any member of Cook County Poets’ Union, Local 4-11-44. Here are three of the seven verses which it has been thought worth while to telegraph from New York: When the plover flaps plow, ker taps: On the rotting bough; When the starved rook pecks tight-stacked grain, attered nest flecks less lane; And th The Then, then will you love Now, were not runnin nator on the Inde ticket, and if Mr. Hearst would only give him hours off, we have not the slightest doubt but that he would | te hand in for the noon editic st for the hearth and home « events, for the eight o'clock sporting edition, something like this When the sparrow flits O’er the lawn mower still, And the robin twits By the hydrant rill; Wh the blue-jay dives For the squirrel’s store, And the wild bee hives "Neath the eaves no more; will ou love me then As you said you d When the bullfrog croaked ‘To the katydid? Or, if by ch he should fail, we could, if we name: any one of a score of sweet rs of ( County, who, " would be able to prod this: Wh n the tomeats 1 through the noisy night, And the tabbies moan In the pale moonlight; When from easements fly sound books or chairs, And the boarders rush For the back-door stairs; Then, then will you love Me, and still no less yr O’er my dre Wh And one of the many pleasing features of the product of Cook County in this . |. Legitimate. For pla: line would be that it need not be confined to seven or any other number of verses, If the Independent could use it, the union would undertake to send it poctry of this the kind by might eh as the editor Ocean, ard or bi Chicago Inte JUST THE ORDINARY. ° you any customer, quired alarm clocks?"" in- aid the man behind “About what price do you for one?” pr the kind I one that will rous out waking, th “Tdon'tk as that, ma’am,"? 8: keep just the ordin that will wake the " disturbing the hired girl, »object if Lean get fter. What Iw the h pet kind-— the kind nily without —Baltimore our NI ONE Medivw— "1s there any quest would like to ask your first wif 1 would like to ask her her recipe for EQUEST. you I have a splitting ee to get rid of these p She can’t very well show them to the door.”” He--"* Certainly not; but you can show yourself at the pianc USES OF {sooner walk up ill than E would dawn, DANNY DEEVER O° THE SEAS. the fishes look so “They've got the on the RR KAR KRR HK don’t "s A Natural Whiske: folks wh noe oats the only be produced in the old Kentucky way by perfect {stillation and careful agelog— Buch 8 whiskey Is Sunny Brook Whiskey It ts bottted under the direction Of U. 8. Internal Revenue Officers ghd Keaied with the Government "Green Stamp’? upon which 1s whiskey withia euch, Sunny Brook DistilleryCo. JSetterson Co., A FRIGID ROAST. Hob——"* Would you like to see women voters at the polls? Nob Y south pol nd. AL the north and Sewanee Tiger, Pears’ alto- Ascowling look i gether unnatural.” All the features of Pears’ A natu- good soap for the Soapare pleasing. rally complexion, Sant rors ih THE SPITFIRES. Mott“ Do you kne cats from the 1 ow to tell the eats always light on their , and matehes light on their heads.” Boston Transeript, NOTHING LIKE IT. as a new sn: y has a hy “Waiter, be sure and bring me Cook's Impe: that champagne {cr years and ne ; [have known § rist Mother fl es from root As round the how er is be ng. for ‘That ixn’t just like can depend on its uniformity. of quality — it equals the best vintages of the Old Worl Served Everywhere A Rare Book of Humor Is a bound volume of JUDG The best binder on the market is the one we are sending our sub- ribers for $1.25, ‘This amount judes all charges for postage, Address in ete. THE JUDGE Co. yers. who want something level t 225 Filth Avenue = New York For stricken passengers sit on, Punch. comicbooks.com