Judge, 1909-03-20 · page 6 of 16
Judge — March 20, 1909 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* collects several unrelated satirical pieces typical of the magazine's format. **Top cartoons**: "The Wright Brothers Concerning Airships" presents two contrasting aerial disaster scenes labeled "The Wright Brothers" and "The Wrong Brothers"—satirizing the famous aviators' experiments through exaggerated catastrophe imagery. **Middle sections**: Humorous commentary on **authors and editors**—a recurring *Judge* topic—depicting their contentious relationship over manuscript payments and rejections. The "optimist vs. pessimist" dialogue and various vignettes mock both parties' pretensions. **Lower content**: Brief jokes and puns on unrelated topics: romantic complications ("Two Is Company"), French restaurant menus ("À la Pocket"), and fortune-telling companies Bradstreet and Dun. The final marigold quip appears to reference some topical debate about national symbols (unclear without more context). The page exemplifies *Judge*'s miscellaneous humor format—mixing visual satire with wordplay targeting recognizable American types: pompous authors, exasperated editors, and social pretenders.
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‘The Wright brothers CONCERNING AIRSHIDS. AUTHORS—THEIR WAYS AND DIFFERENT THEIR WORK. VIEWS. E SURE of one thing—authors were cre- 66 WA annoy editors, If not, why do differences know very well that between anoptimist | an editor tries to hide behind his desk — and a pessimist?” when they call, but still they “A pessimist , Authors have mean dispositions, is always thinking A writer's first manuscript is usu- of his liabilities, ally a true story written with a lead while an optimist pencil and malice aforethought. If he thinks only of his n't annihilated for this erime, he ¢ assets,” | tinues to inflict other outrages on the | + long-suffering editors until he has re- SURE CURE. ceived enough rejection slips to pape Td—* Wow the parlor. ‘Then, ina moment of t did Tom break him- porary aberration, an editor ac self of the habit of something, and the exultant author — eating his luncheon CIRCUMSTANCES: ALTER ‘CASES: hangs his number seven hat ona bust of Would ye lative t-wasetaralia® Bill Shakespeare and buys himself a d He fell seven and three-fourths, Sometimes the in love with the acceptance is accompanied with a check, but the writer usually has ” to use a microscope to discover the amount. Authors and editors seldom agree as to the value of a manu- LINES ADDRESSED BY AN INDEFATIGABLE CONTRIBUTOR script, ‘The author submits a poem on muck-raking, and thinks he TO A PRESUMABLY INDIGNANT EDITOR. should receive thirty dollars; the editor thinks he should be given Yu WILL observe that every time 7 thirty days. ‘The chances are he doesn’t get either. I send along a shorter rhyme. wm Ke It may de «perhaps you hope— To just an empty envelope. TWO IS COMPANY. ® 'WO HEADS are better than one, , When the evening lamp burns 4 low; But when a third appears above It’s apt to spoil the show, A LA POCKET. 66 JON'T the French words on the menu trouble you when ing A In carte?” Not a bit. I just run my eye down the list until 1 see some- thing for twenty-five cents, then point to it, and say * Please.’"” PALMISTRY. 66 WHO ARE the greatest fortune- tellers in the country?” ‘THE HUMAN “FIGURE.” ** Bradstreet and Dun.”” If this sort of thing is going to keep up, why not pick the marigold for our national flower at once.? comicbooks.com