Judge, 1911-08-05 · page 11 of 27
Judge — August 5, 1911 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This multi-panel comic satirizes dishonest vacation resorts that fleece tourists. "Jack" visits a supposedly restful destination but encounters: shoddy accommodations ("69 tomb" rooms), disease-carrying mosquitoes, inedible food (prunes and hash), and a fake lake advertised for boating. The satire's bite comes from the final irony—despite these miserable conditions, Jack departs swearing it was wonderful, suggesting either gullibility or social pressure to pretend he enjoyed his costly vacation. The page also includes satirical "Headlines Which We Will Never See," mocking absurdities like millionaires rejecting automobiles or wealthy patients refusing surgery—these invert common American behaviors (wealth-seeking, status-chasing) to expose their ridiculousness. The "Evolution" and "Strange" sections use similar inverted logic to mock marital disappointment and wealth flowing overseas during this era.
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The Resort Where Jack Went. ‘This is the rube who takes in the coin that is spent at the resort where Jack went. | This is the tomb the rube calls a room, Exchanged for the ooin that Jack spent. Here are the mosquitos that puncture the guest, In the 69 tomb the rube calls a room, At the restful resort where Jack went. And whose sweet serenade improves the night's rest, Unspeakably Sad. HE WAS a sweet Virginia maid, and boasted she’d descended From John Randolph, of Roa- noke—right there our friend- ship ended. I'm sure she was a truthful girl; with doubts I am not harried. That's why it’s such a shock to me—John Randolph never married? Headlines Which We Will Never See in the Newspapers. MERICAN heiress declines to be presented at English court, New York millionaire ex- changes automobile for horse and buggy. Eminent surgeon ‘refuses to perform operation on rich pa- tient, William Jennings Bryan re- fuses the Democratic nomina- tion for President. Caruso denies that he is the world’s greatest tenor. Divorce is believed to be de- creasing. Fashion declares it ultra smart to retire at ten o'clock, A year has passed without the death of a single aeronaut. Taxicab owners fix upon a uniform fare of one cent per mile. Noted prima donna prefers to sing minor roles. Strange. Uncle Ezra—'*Why so quiet, Uncle Eben?” Uncle Eben—‘‘I was just thinking that with the amount of money these songbirds take over to the old country every year, and the amount the da- goes send back home, and the amount the American tourists leave over there, ain’t it a won- der there’s any money left in this country at all?” Evolution. Y LOVED one always threw me kisses "Fore I changed her name to Mrs, Farewell, then, to future wish- es— She still throws, but now it’s dishes. (A Vacation Idyl.) 5. Here 's what they face when the dinner arrives, Which only a case-hardened stomach surviges. For the prunes and the hash you pay your good cash, At the restful resort where Jack went. 6. This is the swamp advertised as a lake, ‘The boating and fishing a beautiful fake. Mosquitos whose size will win any prize At the restful resort where Jack went. 7. This is the cash that pays for the hash, And the 6x9 tomb the sube calls a room, And the pancturing pests that disturb the night's rests, And the beautiful lake, and the summer-girl fake At the restful resort where Jack went. Here is the staton, where Jack with his grip Is ready to start on his back-to-town trip, But ready to swear that no place will compare With the restful resort where Jack went comicbooks.com