Judge, 1910-10-22 · page 6 of 16
Judge — October 22, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page collects several brief satirical jokes and cartoons typical of early-20th-century American humor: **"The Way It Looked to Cy's Father"** mocks the new automobile industry's inflated pricing. A farmer is astounded that his son bought a four-seater car for $1,200 when a wealthy man paid $4,000—satirizing how new car technology had become unexpectedly affordable. **"An Apprehensive Patient"** jokes about childhood fear of doctors, playing on the boy's misunderstanding: when told the doctor will "take his temperature," he fears the doctor will literally remove it. **"The Seat of the Pain"** presents a child's literal interpretation of language—when asked where her throat pain is, she answers "where my tongue was put in," confusing anatomical location with action. Other brief gags mock financial speculation ("His System" about stock promoters counting chickens before eggs are laid), tourism, and fashion (the "hobble skirt"). The tone is gentle, domestic humor rather than political satire, reflecting Judge's mixed content of jokes, cartoons, and advertisements.
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THE WAY IT LOOKED TO CY’S FATHER Proud Orwner—"' This car cost four thovsand dollars.’ Farmer—" You got cheated, young feller. My son Cy bought one that has four seats in it for twelve hundred dollars."" The Seat of the Pain. ITTLE Natalie had a sore throat and complained to her mother of the pain. Fearing an attack of diphtheria, which the child had never been through, the anxious mother looked into the little girl's throat, but saw no un- toward sign. An Apprehensive Patient. ILLIE alwayshad agreataversion you, Willie; all he'll do is to take your We: doctors. So the day he was taken down with « fever and he temperature."’ This caused the lad to take on all the heard his mother say she was go- ing to call in a physician, the more, and, as the physician entered the lad protested vehemently and declared he wouldn't allow him to enter the sick-room. Nevertheless the physician came, and was hanging up his hat and coat in the hall when the boy's. mother approached the sick-bed to allay the child's ap- prehensions. “Now, Willie, you mustn't take on so!" she said. ‘The doctor isn't going to hurt you one bit! Just be patient a minute while he’s here, and then he'll go right away again,”’ “I'm afraid he'll do something to me!"’ exclaimed the youth, BEFORE BILLS WERE WASHED. “Are you sure your throat pains you?” asked she. ‘Tell mother just where the pain is?”” “My tongue hurts me where it was put in,” was the answer. Brief. Unsportsmanlike. 66] 1S very exciting!” says the returned tourist. “They shoot the rapis of the St. Law- rence with a big boat.’" “That isn’t fair,"’ asserts the man with the ornamental vest. anxiously watching the door. “The boy next door told me the doctor stuck a big needle in his arm one time he was sick and it hurt him terrible!" “But the doctor won't stick a needle in First microbe—"" | bear the government is going to make the paper money smaller ?"" Second microbe—"* That 's baa, for it's awfully overcrowded now."’ “They ought to shoot them with a little boat.”* A Far Cry. Traveler—‘Oh, for the home-made bread and the patching mother used to do!"* room, he clutched his mother and whispered apprehensively, “Ma, what part of me is my temperature?” His System. t “p° YOU count your chickens before they are hatched?"’ asks the visitor. ‘ou bet I do!” says the dealer in mining stocks and promoter of town sites. “T not only count ‘em be- fore they are hatched, but sell ’em before the eggs are laid." A WOMAN is judged by “sat Soft pedal, Bill Over there is one of those hobbles !"’ the society that she does not keep. Mr. Spider—* Now I wonder how a feller ketches flies with one of them blamed things !""