Judge, 1909-02-27 · page 5 of 16
Judge — February 27, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("A Protest"):** A dachshund (visually associated with Germany) protests to its owner about not visiting "old friend Fritz" in months, explaining it has joined "the Odd-Fellows" (a fraternal organization). This is anti-German satire, likely from WWI era, mocking German-American solidarity and suggesting Germans were joining American organizations to disguise their nationality or loyalty. **Middle Section ("Burying the International Hatchet"):** Shows dialogue about Anglo-American sympathy, appearing to reference post-conflict reconciliation efforts. **Bottom Cartoons:** "Every Boy His Own Doctor" and "Two Objections" satirize American family practices and French attitudes toward waste, suggesting cultural superiority debates common in early 20th-century American humor. The page overall reflects xenophobic attitudes typical of Judge magazine's era.
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A PROTEST. cried Cupid, * I’m tempted to make t my name to di For all the world talks of the hearts that I break, But never of those that I mend. “+ It’s almost enough to make any one swear, This gossip of damage I do, When, did they but know it, the hearts I repair Are often much better than new. * No credit I get for the trouble I take ‘To bring lovers’ woes to an end; For people tell only of hearts that I break Forgetting how often I mend." & ICE WARD. BURYING THE INTERNATIONAL HATCHET. Spouter—*The hostility of one nation alone seems to be Anglo-American sympathy wonderfully.” What nation?”’ * Carrie.” “eps of this," said the piano-maker, polish- ing a pi he spoke, Petite “Gee! and to think I gave up cigarettes when I came west.”” house, but do you know it i lives on what the a impossible. would be too great, and, beside FRESH BOLOGNA. Saree AND THIS |S’ WHY \VE NOT SEEN MY OLD FRIEND “FRITZ FOR SO MANY MOON, I see HE HAS JotINED THe * ODD-FELLOWSS!” THE SAME. 46P)ID YOU succeed in touching old Grindem?” asks the man with the freckles, “* Sue man with thi “What! Say, did you ever try to get money from home? I got # lot of sound advice and a cold turn-down."* 2 Just like getting money from home!’ replies the weary ears, Did he loosen up?” It was like that. “EVERY BOY HIS OWN DOCTOR? actor Young a », don't you know that cigarettes will destroy dent“ Darts jus’ what I'm tryin’ ter do, doc 5 teacher TWO OBJECTIONS. 1, “1 do not wish t way of keepiag age French fan ily we Amer: my ange In the first p 4 the helpful wife, that would be the cost of sending it to France it would spoil before it got there.’* comicbooks.com