Judge, 1914-01-10 · page 15 of 24
Judge — January 10, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains multiple humorous short pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines: **The Rube's Soliloquy** satirizes a rural character who deliberately speaks in exaggerated dialect ("rube fashion") despite understanding proper English, because audiences expect and enjoy it. The joke critiques both the performer's cynicism and readers' appetite for stereotyped rural characters—he profits from playing a caricature. **Other brief pieces** include: a doctor-seduction joke about a sprained ankle; a child planting beads expecting crops; a fat woman asking a trolley conductor about electric shock (his reply implies she's so heavy she'd conduct electricity); and rural gossip anecdotes. The **title phrase** "Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other" suggests these sketches offer similar humor from different angles—all playing with audience expectations and social stereotypes common to the era.
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ee AEE we a SIX OF ONE AND HALF A DOZEN OF THE OTHER The Rube's Soliloquy KNOW th’ English langwidge jest as well as reg’lar folks, But these hyer di’lect fel- lers hez t’ hev ther lit- tle jokes. 'F I didn’t talk rube-fash- ion not aone of them’d love me— jin short, I talk this gib- ’rish jest because it’s (& ’spected uv me. LS Don't do no hurt, I'd jest as lieve be quoted this way’s any. It makes them fellers lots 0’ coin an’ don’t cost me a penny. - They may be some ’at keers a bit, but I’m content, myse’f, When they think a man on the R. F. D. hez t’ be aR. D. F.—Stricktand Gittitan. Sofficient Excuse “How did she happen to turn her an- kle?”” “Oh, her ankle was well turned, and there was a handsome young doctor stop- Ping at the same hotel.’” The Little Boy's Mistake PLANTED what he thought were E HE seca, And eagerly he watched the spot. No sprouts came up from mother's beads Or from poor Johnny’s BB shot. On an Overhead Trolley The street-car conductor was very im- patient. He was waiting for an elderly and very stout lady to board his car, when she suddenly exclaimed, ‘‘Conductor, con- ductor, will I get a shock if I step on that rail?”’ He quietly answered, ‘‘No, lady, not unless you put your other foot on the trolley wire.’’ Force of Habit Crawford—There’s no doubt, the wise thing is to practice economy. Crabshaw—But this is an extravagant age, and we seem to be out of practice. A contented mind is a continual feast, but it does not appease the appetite. Egg View Notes A SUSPICIOUS-LOOKING character was shut in the lock-up Tuesday afternoon. He told Witt Larcom that he was a second-story man from, a big city. Witt asked him how much he got a word. Lem Bushnell’s boy, Dave, don’t think much of the new schoolteacher’s heating system. It hasn’t enough bark on it. A picture named ‘‘September Morn’’ is seen in the grocery window this week. Old Ham Berger says it’s a nuisance. His specs are lost. Ote Gimber woke up the other night and found his wife with her hands in his pockets. He asked her if they were cold. Tink Nitz says that if Ag Weese could stretch a dollar as far as she can her neck, maybe Wes, her husband, wouldn’t have to work so hard. —Leslie Van Every. Treasure Rooster — What’s troubling you, my dear? Hen—I've mislaid an egg. comicbooks.com