Judge, 1909-07-17 · page 6 of 16
Judge — July 17, 1909 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge (likely early 1900s) contains several unrelated humor pieces typical of the magazine's satirical format: **"Cheer Up"** (top left): A motivational cartoon about seizing opportunities, using the metaphor of lemons needing to be squeezed—suggesting people shouldn't waste potential. **"A Helping Hand"** and other brief dialogue jokes: Quick one-liners playing on wordplay and domestic situations (someone living "hand-to-mouth," romantic cold-shoulder metaphors). **"Down to the Finals"**: Social satire about middle-class courtship rituals, where a mother interprets a daughter moving a rocking chair into the parlor as a sign of engagement—implying past daughters used similar furniture strategically. **"The Simple Village Belle"**: Satirizes urban snobbery toward rural women, describing an unsophisticated but attractive village girl who becomes fashionable as a summer boarder—mocking both rural simplicity and city pretension. **"At the Jungle Music Lesson"**: A classroom scene (content unclear from OCR). The page reflects early 20th-century American humor: class consciousness, courtship customs, and gentle domestic satire.
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“BMBRACE YOuR - OPPORTUNIT Y~ Qhere's many a lemon dries up unsqueesed ! P q C5 A HELPING HAND. Sophia~-* Your brother lives a hand-to-mouth existence, | am told.’” 1 lidram—"" V should say he does, He does nothing but eat from morning till night” GETTING WARMER. HE gave me the marble heart, She gave me a frozen stare, She gave me an icy hand to shake, i htfully frigid air. maiden cold, And I was in chill despair, Till she gave me a shock when she gave me a lock Of her flaming, fiery hair! SAM S. STINSON. DOWN TO THE FINALS. 6€ [THINK Lucy and young Mr. Cashbox are arriving at an understanding,’ says the happy mother. ** You mean that they are the pleased father. “Not yet. But I noticed that Lucy has moved that big, roomy rocking-chair into the parlor—and you know that was the forerunner of the engagements of the other girls.”” waged 7" asks JACK AT HOME. ROUND the world with Uncle Sam— It was a blooming lark ; But I'd much rather walk with Ann Around the city park. ! 1. Teacher —"* Now, see ippy, if you don't open the rest, Til pat yo —all to gether, take a dee} toopen your mouths, La, la, la THE SIMPLE VILLAGE BELLE. simple village belle No splendid effort to Is shown in her attire. Her shirt waist is both neat and white, rsa flowered bonnet so fair a sight nspired a sonnet. She strolls along unconscious that By all she is adored What think you if I tell you flat : here for summer board; That though attired with Expert dressmakin ilady thinks count. 2 Hippy “at lat! laaat tt times running is a ) it is about time you paid something