Judge, 1911-09-30 · page 9 of 23
Judge — September 30, 1911 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two separate pieces of satirical content: **Top section**: A humorous narrative about a stranded couple at Atlantic City. The wife, Sue, claims she can support them by catching snakes to sell to locals—a absurd scheme that mocks both her overconfidence and the idea that Atlantic City (a popular resort destination) would be full of profitable wildlife. The joke hinges on the ridiculous premise that snake-catching is a viable income strategy. **Bottom image**: "The Up-to-Date Doctor's Hurry Call" depicts an airplane—then a novel and experimental technology—being used for emergency medical transport. This satirizes the early 20th-century fascination with aviation as a solution to modern problems, humorously suggesting doctors now make house calls via aircraft rather than traditional means. Both pieces reflect period anxieties and obsessions: economic desperation and the transformative (sometimes absurdly optimistic) impact of new technology on American life.
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— ATTRACTIONS AT ATLANTIC CITY. it? Stranded right on a real strand, not a cent, wet through, and the devil to pay generally!’ a “Oh, brace up, Tom!’ she said. ‘It ain’t so bad! I don’t care where we are, I can make food and lodg- ing. All I need any day is a snake or two, and I'll get carfare out of the na- tives; and if there ever was a stretch of landscape that looked like a home for snakes, this is it. I know snakes and their habits, and I'll have a half dozen ina half hour. Cut me a forked stick.’ “Well, I cut a forked stick, and off Sue went one way and off I went an- other, Sue after snakes and me to see the lay of the land. ‘Fair-sized town over there,’ I said, when I got back. ‘Got any snakes?’ ‘No,’ said Sue, sort of worried; ‘but I'll get ’em. Don’t you worry. This is just the place for snakes. Big rock hill over there that must be alive with rattlers, but I haven’t gone there yet. I’ve been looking for water snakes along the creek. There ought to be millions of them, but I didn’t see them.’ “Tain’t fond of snakes myself, but I hadn’t anything else to do, so I started in to help Sue. She scooted for the eee rock hill to get some rattlers, and I went to the creek. It ought to have been full of moccasins and black snakes and such, but I hunted until sundown and not a snake! Sue came back evidently plumb discouraged. “**Tom,’ she said, ‘I can’t understand it. That is the prettiest bit of God- forsaken rock hill I ever saw, and it ought to be so full of snakes they would be piled on top of each other, and there’s not a snake! Not a snake!’ THE UP-TO-DATE DOCTOR'S HURRY CALL. comicbooks.com