Judge, 1910-10-29 · page 8 of 21
Judge — October 29, 1910 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 1900s American humor: **"Auld Lang Syne"** and related verses are birthday greetings to "Judge" (likely the magazine's namesake or mascot), presented with sentimental Scottish-themed poetry. **"The Last Hotel Skeeter for 1910"** is the main comic strip—a six-panel satire about a parasitic hotel guest ("Skeeter") who exploits social connections. The joke: the skeeter befriends hotel guests, then invites himself to their homes, eating voraciously until the exasperated host finally ejects him by claiming an early train departure. It satirizes freeloading social climbers and the era's tension between hospitality etiquette and unwanted guests. Other brief items mock women in politics, cheap department store merchandise, and progress (the aeroplane versus horses). "Bellerophon to Pegasus" references the mythological winged horse, joking about early aircraft getting stalled. The humor assumes reader familiarity with hotel culture, social hierarchy, and contemporary anxieties about modernity.
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Auld Lang Syne. By ESTELLE MAY NOLTE ‘HOULD auld acquaintance be forgot When birthdays come around; Should auld friends be re- membered not Until they're in the ground? Let 's send a kindly thought to-day, And bring a word o’ cheer, And start good wishes on the way To Jupce, whose birthday 's here! MQW A SELF-MADE MAN. Inevitable Result. Mrs. Crabshaw—*How will we know when women have succeeded in politics?"’ Crabshaw—As soon as we begin talking about the woman higher up.”” 66 7PHAT coun- ter full of cheap things for gifts,” says the floorwalker to the manager, ‘‘does- n't seem to al tract any atten- tion, although the prices on the stuff are simply ab- surd.”” “What kind of a placard have you over it?” asks the manager. “Just a sign reading, Take that down and put up one reading, ‘For Husbands.’ ’” A Plan That Works. Knicker—*How would you keep cholera out of the port of New York ?"” Bocker—‘‘Have Loeb’s men hunt for smuggled germs."” Pledge It in Ink. By LOUIS SCHNEIDER. ERE'S a good health to Jupce, whose gay, festive pen Many smiles on dull care’s face has drawn! And still flourish he, like a hale, green old tree, When his contemporaries are gone! “* Git up there, you old skate ! you 're earning your oats and bird seed for the first time in your career.” BELLEROPHON TO PEGASUS. Since these airships have been getting stalled up here, Disadvantages of Progress. 46]SN'T the aeroplane wonderful?” asks the young man. “‘ The automobile was a marvelous improvement over the horse and buggy, but the "* —— “Thardly know,’ interrupts the fair young thing. ‘‘It seems to me that every time they invent a new way of riding they get further and further away from the advantage of the old-fashioned method, when the lines could at times be tied around the whips-stock.’* THE LAST HOTEL SKEETER FOR 1910. 1, Mr. Skeeter—'' My, there's such a delicious flavor to his blood he must be well-to-do and no doubt has a beloved wife and family in the country, — —"'A hotel acquaintance, my dear. perfect bore, but I couldn't shake him. So you ‘ll have to tolerate him a few days.”” 2, —— What! going back home so soon? I have more than half ‘a notion to join him for the week end.— 5. Mr. Skecter—"' I'm delighted to meet the family of my host. I lunched on your husband repeatedly while at the hotel in New York.—— ——- Pardon me, sir; bat I couldn't think of severing our acquaintance so abruptly. I have decided to spend a few days with you at your country home.”’ 6. — I have gained two ounces at your home. I guess I'll remain with you another week.” Host—"* No, you don't! Your train leaves at 6.30, just before eating time. Good day, sir.”” comicbooks.com