Judge, 1909-07-10 · page 10 of 16
Judge — July 10, 1909 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* satirizes **hay fever sufferers** during what appears to be late summer/early fall (the season when hay fever peaks). The content mocks the chronic complainers and their predictable behaviors. **The main cartoons:** 1. **Top illustration** ("Caught with the Goods"): Two men in a horse-drawn carriage discuss someone caught stealing from a strawberry patch—likely a humorous setup joke. 2. **"Inquiring Friends"**: A series of comic dialogues showing a hay fever victim repeatedly saying the same excuses to different people (it's not a cold, tried everything for 30 years, can't go out, etc.). The humor relies on the **repetition and tedium** of listening to chronic sufferers describe their symptoms. 3. **Bottom section** announces "Mr. Jason Henry Skinner" has suffered hay fever for 30 years, tried every remedy, and is now most comfortable indoors with ice water—satirizing how hay fever becomes a person's defining characteristic and conversational obsession. The satire targets not hay fever itself, but **sufferers' relentless self-pity and the social annoyance** they create by constantly discussing their condition.
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