Judge, 1909-10-16 · page 5 of 16
Judge — October 16, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century American life: **"In Boyville"** depicts a boy mistaking an automobile for a "automole" — satirizing the novelty and confusion surrounding early automobiles. **"Reflections of Uncle Ezra"** offers humorous observations about inventions (mousetraps, fireless cookers, photograph collectors) and human nature, concluding with commentary on life insurance and lazy people. The tone is curmudgeonly rural wisdom. **"A Correct Guess"** shows fashionably dressed figures, likely satirizing contemporary fashion or social pretension. **"Ups and Downs of Life"** depicts cowboys/horsemen, playing on the contrast between daily ups and downs. Overall, the page reflects Judge's satirical approach to modern innovations, social habits, and fashion through humor accessible to early 1900s readers.
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Meoweasens IN BOYVILLE, The goou—"* Honk, honk Little Johny —" V say, you might think you're an auto- mobile, but you ain't.” REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. LER that invents a mousetrap that vill ketch mice has got it all over the feller nts an airship that won't fly. Home used to be where the heart was, but now it is where the fireless cooker, the lar habits, He gets full every night without fail. Any feller that will pay two dollars for h mainspring. adollar watch ain't got no bu 3 bein’ at - Fust ‘ou know he will be buyin’ a pianner on the installment plan, our banke 8 the feller that invented Her that invented the B THERE ARE LOTS OF © FISH INTHE SEA~ a hook and ( Get on 7 act like baitz~— wig 88 cooker is another, and, also, the feller that invented eight nt. interest ain't nobody's dang fool nuther. The underhand methods of some baseball pitchers passes all understandin’. It ain’t no snap to keep summer boarders, m to come, but to make 'em stay is another matter. Sunbunnits is a great leveler, and you can’t tell your wife from It is easy enough to Ret A CORRECT GU “ Your brother isa writer, isn't he She—* What does he write for He—* Goodness only knows! the hired girl when they have got ‘em on, At least that was Hank Peters's defense in the divorce court. Ez Renfrew says it is true that li A life-insurance agent has been after him for nineteen years. gettin’ so that nobody wears plug hats but Governors and is just one thing after an- other, goin’ to take a flyin’ trip through the West. By gravy! a good-sized airship to tote him around. ry that the only job he would take would be ; graph company or coal heaver on RK it will take qui Jed Purdy that of lineman for a w a gusoline launch, so | UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE * You say he goes up like that every da: “No; every other day he comes down.