Judge, 1909-05-29 · page 7 of 20
Judge — May 29, 1909 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the anxieties of newly wealthy Americans attempting to establish themselves socially. A young couple hires Norah, a recently arrived Irish immigrant servant, to answer their door and impress dinner guests. Despite careful training on proper etiquette, Norah panics at the doorbell and abandons her instructions, greeting visitors with an exclamation in thick Irish dialect: "B' the howly St. Patrick, Oi forgot me pan!" The humor targets both the pretensions of social climbers and ethnic stereotypes of Irish immigrants as uncouth and unreliable. The sidebar "The Left One" mocks women seeking advantageous marriages. The cartoons use exaggerated dialect and caricature to mock working-class Irish servants as inherently unable to acquire proper manners, reflecting period prejudices common in American humor.
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UI. DOUGHNUTS. are all these doughnuts for, anyhow ?” pard my schooner, you lubber.”” “THE SERVANT IN THE HOUSE.” YOUNG couple had taken a house in an exe! e neighborhood and wished to A make a good impression at the very beginning of their social career. They however, by the difliculty of securing good servants. finally secured one Ni av recent arrival from County Kil- ry could find, This maid’s duty was to answer the front rds of any visitors to her mistress. She was rehearsed ing her exactly what to say and how to larney, but th doorbell 1 repeate carry her si But, in » of the training, Norah's mistress awaited the hour of her first dinner party with trepida- STUNG! tion, and at the first sound of the doorbell she could not resist the impulse to listen at the head of the stairs, Norah rushed to the door excitedly, without * Now that Squire Skinner's ished at college her sali but as she ‘'sappee she ‘Il set down and wait fur the right man to opened it and saw visit- come OR an fat a ors standing there, she thet gal won't think he’s the jected her istruc- ns, and, throwing up her hands, exclaimed, in a voice of heartbroken dismay, x “B’ the howly St. Patrick, Oi forgot me pan!” het enny feller as marries ght man long.” 2. Hoys—* We "ll help de poor fellow wid his delicious WS Oa, To figure out the difference Will surely rouse your ire, lyin isa liar. For the beastie i: 3. Tony—* Mooch oblig’. I mova to-day.”” ‘And the comicbooks.com