Judge, 1909-05-29 · page 3 of 20
Judge — May 29, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge magazine contains editorial commentary titled "Nibbles at Judge's Hook" discussing contemporary communication methods and social trends. The top illustration depicts fishing at "Judge's Hook," a landscape vignette. The lower cartoon, captioned "Got His Foot in It This Time," shows a man (appears to be a politician or public figure) who has stepped into something problematic—literally depicted as having his foot caught in a trap or compromising situation. A woman and another figure observe. This satirizes someone who has made a misstep or gotten caught in scandal. The text references airship sightings, beach behavior, and criticizes anonymous newspaper correspondents spreading rumors about college girls. It uses lighthearted social satire typical of Judge's approach, though specific contemporary references (dates, names) are unclear without additional context.
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N U Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Avenu JOHN A. SLEICHE! WrstkRn ADVEMTISING Or¥ICE=1196-7 Marquette Iuilding, Chicago, Ht. James M. Lee, Managing Editor. Grant E. Hamilton, Art Editor. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT TEN CENTS A COPY. NIBBLES AT JUDGE'S HOOK. T IS to be hoped that some other means of communication One of our esteemed contemporaries published an informing than that suggested by Professor Pickering will be estab- article the other day on the college-bred girl. This is all well o lished between ours and Mars, unless we want the enough, but what the young man of to-day wants to know about is Martians to think that we are a flashy lot. not the college-bred girl, but the college-girl bread. The girl her- ‘That was not an airship that was seen floating self is doubtless good enough to eat, but how about her baking? New York the other day, but a lady froma New If the anonymous correspondent who sent us the joke stating sey suburb, who came to town on shopping bent, — that a conversation between a young man and his fiancée in one of our mper-hat. ‘The wind playing about the taxicabs might be called a“ taxigab " will send us his address, we Flatiron Building got under the hat, and there you shall be glad tosend his jest back to him, We cannot imagine any- thing that would us to print it. smart people, the proverb-makers, used to tell us that 8 up must come down."” Again do we find them sounding on the ambient air, How about the man who is sent are, It isa good thing to be particular in this world, but one cannot help thinking that the man who ob- jected to the ocean because its waves were not marcelled was carry- — empty phrase ing it too far, He would probably find fault because the girls along — up to Sing the Jersey beaches did not all have sandy hair. If we were the ¢ A man out West, out of sheer curiosity, looked into the dic- that every day is a berth-day for a Pullman-car porter, but in tionary the other day to see what was the last word, but he found it of the fact that we are not in charge of that estimable publication a futile quest. His wife had got there before him and taken it. we shall refrain. itor of Punch we should not hesitate to say iew Mm mn HT “GOT HIS FOOT IN IT ‘THIS ‘TIME.’ comicbooks.com