Judge, 1910-04-30 · page 12 of 16
Judge — April 30, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**"Up-to-Date" Cartoon:** Two figures—a child and an adult—are shown near a building. The caption's reference to "a couple of guys wit' a wagon a-cleanin' out a place wit' a line through the second-story window" satirizes moving day theft. The crude dialect suggests working-class commentary on burglary disguised as legitimate moving services—a common urban con during this era. **"Reflections of Uncle Ezra":** A rustic advice column using folksy dialect to mock contemporary figures. References include Count Széchenyi's Hungarian château (wealthy European aristocratic excess), Chicago hog markets (American industrial commerce), T.R.'s African safari (Theodore Roosevelt's 1909-1910 expedition), and Walter Wellman's Arctic expedition failure. The humor relies on rural simplicity commenting on cosmopolitan pretension. **"A Modern Praxiteles":** The caption references a dog destroying a painting titled "The End of Trouble" during the artist's absence—punning on both classical sculpture and modern art's fragility. The image appears to show studio chaos. These pieces represent Judge's typical satirical blend of social observation, wordplay, and gentle mockery of contemporary news and personalities.
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REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. By ROY K. MOULTON T SEEMS as though every feller that kin imitate a pump on the Feige 4 ‘ - : . ioli got to get in- je or bust. Isee Count Szche- nyi is goin’ to erect a $6,000,000 chateau in Hungary. This will not be the house that Jack built. No, indeed! It will be the house that Vander-bilt. Hogs are still goin’ to the Chicago market. A feller from Wichita tried to hug two Chicago women at once the other day. There is said to have been a shoplifter workin’ in our village. Jed Frink says she may be an almighty strong , woman, all right, but he'll bet a second-hand DAILY MARKET REPORT—"‘ 1915." wringer and a peck of vegetable oysters agin a scythe snath and pie =" dlalaniaiamna ip loLceengee a drink of stone fence that she can't lift his blacksmith shop. T. R. needn't have gone 'way to Africa to hunt the cheetah, | There seems to have been plenty of cheetahs in Albany and Pittsburgh, if graft reports are correct. I never yet see a successful business man that didn’t begin his career by pickin’ up a pin. There may be some self-made men who ain't proud of the job, but they ain't visible to the naked eye. Walter Wellman didn’t get to the North Pole, but he got a pretty good imitation of it when he met Bwana Tumbo Africa and asked his opinion of the political situation in America. UP-TO-DATE. * Hey! dere’s a couple of guys wit’ a wagon a-cleanin’ out a place wit’ a line through the second-story window. Sirloin...... A MOVING-DAY MEDITATION. By CHARLES €, JONES I am the tiny tack that sits upon that bed- room floor, I make a man throw verbal fits, since that is what I'm for Oh, he is sure of meeting me, Uprising from his couch! Could more outspoken greeting be? Here's how he'll hail me: “*—— Just here I think I'll reach ah And draw a veil. It shames My soul to think of what is said Ere from the tumbled, shaking bed She chides him thus: ** Why, ——!"” REST FOR THE BROKE OW doth the smiling moving man Fill up his swelling purse, A MODERN PRAXITELES. Till father longs to take a ride Daring the master's absence from his studio, Dauber, the realist’s dog, comes saddenly upon Within the cashless hearse! the celebrated painting, ‘‘ The End of Trouble,”’ and fears the wor comicbooks.com