Judge, 1910-04-23 · page 21 of 24
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This page presents a humorous poem about spring housecleaning, broken into seven dialect-heavy sections representing different New York neighborhoods and social classes circa early 1900s. Each stanza depicts how spring cleaning disrupts daily life differently: Bronx residents complain about being evicted from their homes; Fifth Avenue wealthy grumble about cancelled leisure plans; East Side working-class families endure cramped-apartment chaos; German and Italian immigrant communities struggle with the disruption in their native dialects; African Americans (Thompson Street) face exclusion from their own homes; Chinese residents (Chinatown) clean amid stereotypical references; and Father Knickerbocker (representing New York itself) observes the citywide phenomenon. The satire mocks spring cleaning's universal disruption while gently stereotyping each ethnic/class group through exaggerated dialect and cultural details—a common Judge magazine approach blending social observation with period-typical ethnic humor.
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OF MANHATTAN. VICTOR A. HERMANN. ! (BRONX) | DON’T ask me why my tie Or where's my other hat; j |svto cleaning is the very deuce | When living in a flat. She chased me out so early, too, With bucket, broom, and pan; I can’t go back till she is through— | Pity the homeless man!"” | | % is loose | (FIFTH AVENUE) “Oh, what a bore, a blooming bore, This cleaning house in spring! I wish that I was at the shore— My temples throb and ring. Why couldn’t Ethel wait till June To raise this wild hubbub? I think I 1] rent apartments soon Down in some bachelor club.’ (EAST siDE) Good-mornin’, Mrs, Callahan. Oi'm cl’anin’ house, yez sae; Ut's been two days since Oi began— To-morrow ‘twill be thrae. Awn yit Oi’m only half-way through—! Phwat do yez t’ink av that? Awn no more cookin’ will Oi do— Oi've just chased out me Pat."” (LITTLE GERMANY) “Ach, himmel, vot excidement yed! Der house vas upsides down. I ged mein shoes und stockings ved— Der frau she scold und frown, ‘Go, dake you mit your bibe avay!” ‘Und drink your stein, und der you stay Undil der whole house dries.’ "? (LITTLE ITALY) “Petro, wrap up da organ tight And take da monk away; | Don’t you come back no more till night— I clean da house to day. | Da macaroni’s on da floor, Spaghetti on da walls; I wash and scrub da little store Before da landlord calls,’” (THOMPSON STREET) |**Ah ’elah each foot am one big cohn; Ah cyan’t go home at all. Ah walked to Harlem twice di Den round de Bat’ry wall. ‘Ab erept home en sneaked in mah room, Es quiet es a mouse; | But Betsy poked me wid her broom—_| ‘Keep out! Ah’m cleanin’ house.’ "” (CHINATOWN) “Alle samee cleany house, Make no chop suey ; Chasy lat and chasy mouse Out of rice and tea. Shiny chopsticks velly brown, Scruby Joss with rag; Brushy ail the cobwebs down— Dust the Chinese flag.”” (PATHER KNICKERBOCKER) “From Battery to Bronx Park, The housewife plies her broom; She labors hard till after dark To clean out every room. She sweeps the floor and dusts the shel elf, | And every rug she beats, 1 guess I'll get a broom myself: And sweep the city streets! THE LIMI Hotel manager—"There! Now I have so arranged the prices on the menu that no one can order less than a dollar's worth.""-—Meggendorfer Blactter. THE THOUGHTFUL SPOUSE. Guest (from the country)—This is excellent wine. I must take home a few bottles to my wife. She never drinks wine, but at any rate she'll feel that I didn’t forget her.’’—Fliegende Blaetter. 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