Judge, 1909-07-24 · page 4 of 16
Judge — July 24, 1909 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains miscellaneous humor and illustration rather than political cartoons. The content includes: **"Signs and Superstitions"** — A column discussing folk beliefs (Chinese roof superstitions, Mafia threats, intoxicated cooks) presented as humorous commentary on contemporary urban anxieties and immigrant cultural practices. **"The Yarns of Captain Fibb"** — A sequential comic strip showing a seemingly elderly sailor telling fantastical tales to a younger man. The captain claims to have robbed Egyptian tombs and possessed extraordinary wealth, but his stories are clearly exaggerated yarns — a satirical take on tall tales and unreliable narrators. The illustrations mock both superstitious beliefs and boastful storytelling common in the era. No specific political figures or events appear to be targeted; instead, the page satirizes general human gullibility and the tendency toward self-aggrandizing fiction.
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ages SIGNS AND SUPERSTITIONS. PINK regret, inclosed in a package of your own poetry received in a Monday morning mail, is a sure sign that some editor somewhere is steeped in sorrow. It is also ominous that your manuscript. will shortly go off on another jour- ney. The Chinese believe that it is unlucky to have the roof blown off your house on a Wed- nesday. This superstition is shared also by the Russians and the natives of the Andaman Islands. If a pot of red paint falls off the roof after five o'clock on Saturday afternoon and lands on your best Sunday clothes, it JUDGE'S FAVORITH is an infallible sign that you will not wear MARIE DORO. the latter to church on Sunday morning. An old, old saying, always tife, It is an almost certain sign that you Which, slightly changed, with you ac- are going to lose moncy before long, if : you meet a member of the Mat As you when pla : Black Hand opers blocks from a policeman on a wet night EVERY OPPORTUNITY. in July. “ HAT kine y An intoxi cook on Sunday the means y non Monday, ex- chance of my pleasing t capt in the ailbue i lanes ** Every chance. ei with the principle | that great first act."* pher, Robert they hold that ** a cook's a coo COUNTED OUT. . : meenie, mi QUITE TRUE ete lential 66 GNAKE CHARMER yuite often EVERYTHING HAS ETS Ust “So was Eve.” tecnight, oF Pd never find my way: he THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB. lace and nily jew= . tight! ds and pearls | millions *re all yours, Bill,” he 2—ir enly comes outer the coffin and walks rig tomb of Ph: c zin’ atthe — says, familiar like, * Hello, Bill mummy of the toaf and shows meat SJustdrink ay in P finds m a they were peaches, * zhters, Bill,” a cup of this wine and all 2° says he! adi’ over mi a tray full of medicine, says he. ‘Take your pick of one of them,’ says HI, boys, t that wine and 17m blest if anybody could tell me how I he.—— tithing Le there!