Judge, 1910-01-08 · page 11 of 16
Judge — January 8, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humor pieces reflecting early-20th-century American satirical sensibilities: **"Woman's Sense of Humor"** presents a domestic comedy where Mr. Smuggins finds a joke funny (a Black man being hit on the head), but his wife finds it cruel and unfunny. When he tries to explain the "humor," she misses the point entirely, frustrating him. The satire appears to mock either the husband's questionable sense of humor or the wife's inability to understand it—likely both. **"The Big Stick"** references President Theodore Roosevelt's famous "Big Stick" diplomacy policy. A child mistakes a corpulent man for "the big stick" he's heard about, then reveals his mother called the man "nothing but a tick"—a pun-based insult. **Other pieces** include greeting-card style verses and card-game terminology jokes. The "Bank Book" advertisement occupies center space. The overall tone reflects genteel domestic humor typical of Judge's middle-class audience, mixing wordplay, marital comedy, and contemporary political references accessible only to readers familiar with Roosevelt-era news.
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A BUSY DAY IN THE BUGVILLE PIE FOUNDRY. WOMAN'S SENSE OF HUMOR. By WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. R. SMUGGINS was reading to his wife such stray bits from the evening paper as he thought would in- terest her. Presently he began to laugh w “What is it that is so funny, John?’’ she inquired, seeing that he was not intending to read the item to her. “Why, here’s something about a darky in Kentucky that came limping into a store, and when the proprietor asked him what ailed his feet, he said a man had hit him over the head with a maul when he was standing on a hard sidewalk.”” “T don’t see anything funny in that,’* she protested. “Can't you see that his head '’— and he began laughing again. “No, I can’t,’? she insisted. ‘I think it was cruel of some one to strike him like that, and he should have been punished for it.”” “Really?” inquired Mr. Smuggins, looking at his wife seriously. “Of course Ido. Don’t you?’” “* Well, there are worse things, I sup- pose,’’ he said; ‘ but if you think he ought to be punished, I won’t say a word.’”” He resumed reading, and for five minutes silence prevailed. “John,” inquired Mrs. Smuggins, after the interval, ‘‘how did it hurt his feet so to be hit over the head?”” Then Mr. Smuggins fairly roared, ai went out of the room in high dudgeon. THE BABY WITH THE SERPENT" By Me LANDBURGH WILSON. HE Woman with the Serpent’s Tongue Perhaps may indiscreetly tattle, But, pray, why has no poet sung The baby with the serpent’s rattle? He is not young, he is not old; Though few his da: , his crown is hairless. The reins of power he would hold, Of others’ rights entirely careless. JUDGE a s a ea yee ry Cnt} = ae SB ep VEL 2,6 EB 2 g 2 ‘s S i rd bursts into song when he my Lady greets. little lyric square. hands !—held firmly in mine own, 8 ith great glee. m of the riches of Golconda’s ancient mint. BUOISIA OA,T ian Sessa WHY WASN'T THIS BOOK MENTIONED IN DR. ELIOT'S LIST OF USEFUL BOOKS? nd Mrs. Smuggins urgyIm 9794 3nq ‘pus O47 38 ION B passaiq ‘yo — spuvy oy ‘Jos 207 faaaa puy ‘sams parause3 Jo yosvas uy saaq-fou0y oy “quy3 uapjo3 oy oou 7 ssa23 uote z0y uodn Udy MY LADY'S CHARMS. When I gaze in my Lady’s eyes and note their depths of blue, hued beauty dims the glory of the rose, & voice suggests the nightingale’s when calling to her & 2 I’d not exchange for any monarch’s throne. hope to rest within my Lady And holds the tint And *@ao semo[3 yasuns oy} plwe ara ye sawiod yu q £q popunoaans ssourddey puy yea] ye 8 NQI2} SIG OVUN oUTeU Aw UIs | St 3y ODUdy SONVM NOMGNAN NHO—"BWIBYD “183 ‘eaoqe woay top 03 yeYym Mouy oozwos | JwOY O47 ynogu aBuLsys Os [995 _, oulysuns Jo aouuIpes ou [|e spays o[1ws 2947 sonue edi 29H pay = THE BIG STICK. [jeans aswell reception in Balti- more, the little son of the hostess approached the magnanimous Mr. Lum- berly, who was as topheavy as he was taciturn, “Sir,” asked the youth, ‘‘ are you the big stick I’ve heard so much about?”’ “ Big stick? Big stick? What do you mean, boy?’ “Big stick—that’s what I mean. You're so big, and mamma says you're nothing but a tick. t NO SUCH WORD. HERE is no such word as fail in the bright lexicon of the widow. CARD-TABLE, TERMS. ISCARDS—Mothers-in-law. Full House—Triplets and twins. Bluff—A clerk at a summer resort. Two of a Kind—Old maid ait a step- mother. . Queen of Hearts—A girl wearing an ace of diamonds. Royal Flush—The titled husband of an American heiress. S RATTLE, young woman, Good Hand To Draw To—That of a wealthy and pretty His small hands move the hidden springs Of all that makes a house well ordered. One touch, and those essential things Will be on bediam closely bordered. _ His shrieks ascend in wave on wave, Resembling tumult of a battle. “ He wakens goodness in its The baby with the serpent’s rattle! grave— A SUGGESTION FOR BOARDERS. “ What are you trying to do, Mr. Dispep?"* Didn't you say this was a Plymouth Rock ?”” I did."” “Well, I'm putting ina blast.” 3, comicbooks.com