Judge, 1909-12-04 · page 11 of 48
Judge — December 4, 1909 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical holiday-season content from Judge magazine (circa 1909-1910, based on internal dates). **"Winter Sport"** (top): A crude Irish-dialect joke about working-class parents using a snowball to roll their child downhill for entertainment—satirizing both Irish immigrants and careless parenting as entertainment. **"Judge's Special Horoscope"**: Mock astrological predictions for December 1909-March 1910, satirizing both fortune-telling charlatans and seasonal phenomena. It humorously "predicts" turkey deaths (Christmas dinner), snowfall, Christmas shoppers ("roving individuals"), and stomach epidemics among children—essentially mocking superstition by stating obvious seasonal realities as mystical prophecies. **"Christmas Germs"** (illustration): Circular microscopic views labeled to show disease organisms associated with holiday season—satirizing contemporary germ-theory anxieties and holiday crowding. **Bottom cartoon**: A domestic scene where a mysterious kitchen noise disturbs a family, humorously resolved when it's revealed as Santa using a dumb-waiter (service elevator) instead of the chimney—poking fun at modern "improvements" replacing tradition.
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WINTER SPORT. Mrs. Mulcahy—" ave yous seen me little Jimmy this morning ?"” Kut" side de snowball, we're goin’ ter roll him down de hill JUDGE'S SPECIAL HOROSCOPE. 3 as revealed to ui If yer wait yer kin see de fun."? Asa rule, the Editor has little faith in the prophe r +8, but in this case the curious condition of the , Baksheesh Habbakuk, of Skitzka, that the followi .nfidently telied upon by all whom they mai forecasts may be N all probability there will be great mortality among the turkeys on or about the last two weeks of December, both north and south of the Di line. V pblers will beware of a dark man wearing blue overalls and carrying an axe in his hand. Those who do not take care to avoid this person will get it in the neck, There will be heavy falls of a light, fluffy material, cold to the touch and some at damp, resembling snowflakes in ada and in Alaska, bet) December Ist, 1909, and March their general contour, in various parts of the United States, € 1s, will ring your front-door bell, 15th, 1910, Closely following upon these, bands of roving individuals, carrying sho’ es and struggling: in masses to and from all points of the vor 74 The : large concours pmen carrying pacl compass in the vicinity of all de stores during ber, whi cotton wh 7 AEN afternoon of December dark man and four blonde yh ether persons tom ladies carrying 1 ar from the front to avoid sible for the ingg his tin the earloor, Whi outlook for the public health in the remaining ris yrood, the horoscope foretells an epidemic of stomach- ¢ the young in many parts of the ad the morning. The peculiar conjunction of the Dipper and certain wa month of th tnakes this prophee: y A close serutiny of Mars indi will close on or about the fifteenth of December, and that while +t with disappointments on the morning of the y will sweep over the country from lifornia to the District of Columbia. rddish mass with yellow spots in the lower lobe of the ergyman some- a pair of silk sons will m NEWS ITEM. I York and other large © Santa 8 is using the dumb-waiter instead of the chin id to be a great improvement ewes TA -suspiciouss eR prose in Tee: Me gOY A lxetchen 4? that Sounved Y Qk Certain. Ears ing, OBB Sana aus "= Ber Tan He 7 Aue" Ccomicbooks.com