Judge, 1913-08-02 · page 18 of 24
Judge — August 2, 1913 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This is a **collection of international humor** reprinted from European satirical magazines (Sketch, Ulk, Fliegende Blaetter, Punch, Le Rire, Meggendorfer Blaetter, Le Sourire). Each cartoon mocks everyday social situations across cultures: **Key satire themes:** - **"All Change Here"**: British youth's casual disrespect for historical military sacrifice (Waterloo) - **"The Quarrel"**: German domestic comedy about wives' extravagant clothing demands - **"At the Junk Market"**: French haggling humor over a worthless comb - **"Malicious"**: Doctor's crude diagnosis based only on examining a patient's tongue - **"The Foxy Chauffeur"**: French driver's absurd logic for carrying a ladder uphill - **"An Intimation"**: German gender commentary—woman advised she needs romantic experience before writing romance novels The page demonstrates early 20th-century **cross-cultural magazine sharing**, presenting European working-class and bourgeois life with gentle ridicule of human foibles—marital conflict, social climbing, commercialism, and pretension.
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All Change Here Host (showing family portraits, proud- ly)—Portrait of my great-uncle—lost an arm at Waterloo. Youth (hopelessly bored)—Putrid place, Waterloo! Lost my golf clubs there last week.—Sketch (London). The Quarrel Er—Schon weider eine neue Toilette—man michte aus der Haut fahren! ‘Sie—Na, tu's doch! Dann lass ich mireinen Gartel und eine Handtasche draus machen! He—What! Another new dress! That's enough to make me jump out of my skin! She—Why don't you do it? Then I can have a belt and a handbag made of it.— Ulk (Berlin). At the Tunk Market “Vous voulez rire? Six sous un peigne qu’a plus qu'deux dents!" “Pour ce prix la, vous voudriez peut-etre un ra- telier avec?” “Are you joking? Six cents for a comb with only two teeth left!’” “Perhaps at that price you expect a full set of teeth into the bargain?’’—Le Rire (Paris). Malicious “Ich fUble mich nicht recht wohl. Herr Doktor. Glauben Sie, dasz ich heute nachmittag in ein Kaffee Kriinzchen gehen kann ?"* : 1 Gewist, gewiss, meine Gnidige—die Zunge iat ja gut!” “I don’t feel quite well, doctor. Do you think I could go to a coffee party this afternoon?"’ “Certainly, miss. Your tongue is all right.""—Fliegende Blaetter (Munich). Ingenious Lady-—You told me I need not take out a license for the dog till the end of the year, and now they've sent me a summens. Fancier—Them revenue people will do hanythink, lady. I sold a genelman a parrot larst week, an’ they summoned ’im for keeping a dog without a license just becos the bird ’appened to ‘ave a ‘usky voice.—Punch (London). An Intimation Hen einen Roman schreiben, Fraulein Lilly? sen Sie aber erst selbst mal einen eriabt haben ? “Ich warte auch solange damit ! **You would like to write a romance, Miss Lilly? In order to do that, you must first have personal experience in one.” “T am willing to wait for that."— Meggendorfer Blaetter (Munich). The Foxy Chauffeur “Ben quoi! t'es pas fou, t'emportes un échelle?” ““Tioceupes pas, vieux—c'est pour monter les cotes.” “What! Are you crazy? You takea ladder along?’” “Never mind, old fellow. It’s to climb the hills.""—Le Sourire (Paris). Hints to Climbers: How To Attract Notice Follow notable people about at public functions (Ascot, for instance), and, a8 they arrive within range of the snap- shooter, adroitly centrive to be in the picture, so as to appear in next week's photographic papers under the heading, “The Duke and Duchess of Dumpsbire and Friend."’—Punch (London). comicbooks.com