Judge, 1910-06-11 · page 7 of 16
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This page satirizes Theodore Roosevelt's triumphant return from his African safari (1909-1910). "Teddy Africanus" mocks his celebrity status by proposing an absurdly elaborate parade featuring farcical divisions. The satire targets Roosevelt's political allies and supporters: the "Rough Riders" (his cronies), the "Ananias Club" (referencing liars), the "Also Ran Club" (defeated rivals like William Jennings Bryan), and "Nature Fakers' Guild" (attacking those exaggerating African wildlife stories). The "Twenty-fifth United States Infantry" carrying "razors and sling-shots" appears to contain a racial caricature. The Boer cartoon mocks Roosevelt's outsized fame—even colonial Africa supposedly now calls the landscape "der Rooseveldt." "The Cure" satirizes hypochondriacs who constantly complain about ailments—apparently a contemporary social complaint. "Professor Soudan Jackson's" quip suggests Roosevelt's African adventure made him a celebrity figure even to African peoples, though the racial caricature here reflects the era's problematic attitudes.
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HAIL, TEDDY AFRICANUS! "THE FOLLOWING is proposed as the line of parade for the Roosevelt homecoming celebration in New York : Miuitary Division— Bobby Frantz, Marshal. Rough Riders (embracing Governors of Territories, postmasters, internal revenue collectors, United States marshals, etc., etc.). Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, bearing razors and sling-shots. Civic CLuss Diviston— Benjamin Tillman, Marshal. Ananias Club, carrying George Washington hatchets and headed by Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy Storer. Ancient and Exclusive Order of Undesirables. The Also Ran Club: Honorables Parker, Bryan, et al., carrying banners, ‘* 2,500,000 plurality,” ** 3 electoral votes," etc., etc. Roosevelt Biographers, led by Jakey Riis. Anomalous Order of Mollycoddles, singing, ‘* Haul Down the Flag!"* Literary Division:—Dr. Lyman Abbott, Marsi.al. Outlook Rough Writers, headed by circulation manager. Scribner Scribblers, led by advertising agent. Naturat History Division—Johnny Burroug's, Marshal. Nature Fakers’ Guild, led by Jack London and Dr. Long, and escorting a herd of the famous Reasoning Brutes. Smithsonian employés, carrying skins, vertebrae, tusks, ete. Wart hogs, ding-dings, boks, springboks, aard-varks, ‘earth-hogs, sjamboks, hippopotam' otochon Roosevelti, etc., etc. Camelopards and zebras, presented by King of Abyssinia. us Division—W. Loeb, Jr., Marshal. Conservatives (riding in band wagon). Railroad magnates, carrying big sticks. Float bearing statues of Webster and Worcester, in mourning. Uncle Jep Dodson, wife, and twenty-nine children, from Yates Center, Kan. Advertising floats, describing new Roosevelt and Mombasa games, furs, soaps, cigars, hats, etc. Reporters, rabble, worshipers, etc., etc. Traveler in Africa —"' This vast plain is, I believe, what is known as the veldt?"* Boer—"* Vell, ve don'dt call it dot no more. It is now called der Rooseveldt."* THE CURE. By WILBUR D. NESBIT. NCE there was a man who made life miserable for all he met by eternally harping about his aches and pains. He would discourse on the subject of his dyspepsia, and he would almost interrupt a religious service to tell of his rheumatic symptoms. If he had a stitch in his side he had to pester his friends with it, and a headache helped him make everybody unhappy. At last a bright young woman, to whom the man applied for sympathy, cured him of all his ailments. When he was in the midst of a catalogue of his sufferings, she said sweetly, . “Yes, it is strange how many of these things afflict a man as he begins to grow old. That man never even had a symptom after that. A PIANo cannot be both square and upright, but a pianist can. ‘ REFLECTIONS OF PROFESS- OR SOUDAN JACKSON. “Say, why don't you white people cheer? I'm from Africa, too." comicbooks.com