Judge, 1909-04-10 · page 12 of 16
Judge — April 10, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **multiple unrelated items** typical of Judge magazine's format: advertisements, short humorous anecdotes, and product promotions. The main cartoon narrative, titled "Exploded Reputations," depicts **Peter Van der Hausen, a notoriously lazy Dutch farmer** during the American Civil War. The joke: while a fierce battle rages around his house—with artillery fire and gunfire—Peter sleeps through it all. When neighbors frantically wake him the morning after, he admits he heard noise but simply "went back to sleep." The humor lies in his extreme laziness overriding any reasonable human response to danger. The page also contains numerous **period advertisements** (Iver Johnson revolvers, Blatz beer, Old Overholt rye whiskey, cigars, collars) and brief **jokes** about trivial matters (a waiter finding a steak hiding under onions; a definition of "semicircle"). The satirical target appears to be **human indifference or apathy**—whether to danger or basic effort—presented through exaggerated character types typical of 19th-century humor.
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