Judge, 1910-04-23 · page 7 of 24
Judge — April 23, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"The Genial Philosopher"** section mocks different club members' conflicting ideas of "homelike comfort," concluding that a successful club should deliberately *avoid* being homelike—a joke about clubs serving as escapes from domestic life. **"Americanized"** satirizes rapid cultural assimilation through an Italian immigrant's immediate adoption of American labor slang and attitudes. He arrives speaking broken English and quickly adopts strike-threat rhetoric—humor playing on both immigrant stereotypes and American labor activism of the era. **"The Yarns of Captain Fibb"** is a tall-tale comic strip where an airship captain "fishes" from the sky, comically catching milk, vegetables, eggs, and finally a policeman who arrests him for trespassing—absurdist humor with no deeper political meaning. Minor items include puns about cats and wordplay ("dog-gerel"). The overall tone reflects Judge's characteristic blend of social observation, immigrant humor, and whimsical absurdism.
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JUDGE it goes un. Blithers’s idea of a homelike spot would be a place where he could bully everybody in sight without getting sassed back. Jimmerson would not feel wholly at home unless his club were carpeted throughout with rag carpets and matting. Old Major Blobbs’s idea of home comfort, if put into practice here, would involve our having to sit still for an hour every evening after supper, getting nagged by Mrs, Blobbs for something that we hadn't done or, if we had done it, something that we had done. No, Binksy, a club doesn’t have to be homelike to be wholly perfect. In fact, 1 think there is but one settled plan in the making of a club for a varied membership that can positively assure success."” “ And what is that?” asked Binks. “To make it as away-from-homelike as you know how,” said the Genial Philosopher. “* AMERICANIZED."" [71S remarkable how quickly the average foreign laborer becomes “+ Amer- icanized’? after his arrival in the United States. As an instance, a young Italian was parting from his sweetheart on the eve of his departure for the Land of Promise. "asked the tearful girl, “what will you do in Getta job workin’ on sewer," was the manly reply. “ How long you expect to work on sewer, Tony?” “+ About t’ree days.”” ““T’ree days? Den what?” “ Strike.” AT THE CAT CLUB. Feline No, 1—'* Miss Bluebird has arrived, I hear.’ Feline No, Well, here’s hoping she doesn’t soar so high as beefsteak AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE PROVERB, TueRE is no fool like an old fool, except an older fool. PLEA of the song-poemist: ‘ Love me, love my dog-gerel."” THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB. “AFTER YOU, MA'M'SELLE."" 2, —— The fust thing we hooks waz a 1, “ Oncet when I wuz captain of an airship we can of milk, and we hauls it over the wuz cruisin’ over the State of New Jersey when we run outer provisions, so I gits out me hook and line, and when we passes over a likely-lookin’ farm I lets out the line and angles.— 5. —— But this time it wuz a purty heavy strike, some and me pal tugs away like ginger, hopin’ it would be somethin’ nour- ishin’.—— 4. —— We wuz havin’ purty good luck, so I lets down the line fer another cast, and bimeby the hook ketches inter somethin’ and I begins to haul away.— 3, —-— Then we pulls up a bushel of vegetables, and with the next cast a basket of fresh eggs. 6, —— Well, stew me fer an onion if it wum't a cop we hauled up, and blamed if be didn't pinch us fer trespassin’ and fishin’ on private property !"" comicbooks.com