ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Judge, 1914-11-28 · page 19 of 24

Judge — November 28, 1914 — page 19: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Judge — November 28, 1914 — page 19: Judge, 1914-11-28

What you’re looking at

This page contains multiple brief satirical jokes rather than a single political cartoon. The humor targets everyday social absurdities: **"Passing the Mustard"** mocks an overeager newspaper reporter who ruins surprise parties by announcing them in advance—satirizing journalistic sensationalism. Other jokes lampoon: - Working-class slang ("beans" for dollars), suggesting class pretension - Literary snobbery among the Irish - Social climbing and cruelty toward the poor by wealthy parvenus - Marital dishonesty and the double standards of courtship The right side features travel advertisements for steamship lines and a New York hotel, typical of Judge's commercial content. The humor is genteel and domestic, reflecting early 20th-century magazine satire aimed at middle-class readers—poking fun at social hypocrisy, class anxiety, and the gap between propriety and actual behavior, rather than political satire.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

wan, Ob ce is Pols. ed to 0 dot hing skirt 4, Passing, the Mustard Overzealous— Publisher — How is the new reporter doing? ; Managing editor —I had to discharge him. Publisher—What for? Managing editor—He was far tooenter- prising. Publisher—What do you mean? Managing editor—He made a specialty of announcing surprise parties in ad- vance. —Youngstown Telegram. Not Appropriate —** What have you there, son?” “Ten beans.’” “Beans? Do you mean dollars?” “Yep.” “Why don’t you call money by its right name?” “Ain't beans a good enough name for “Not for you. You never plant any.”’ — Louisville Courier-Journal. Limits in Literature—‘‘ You've read ‘The Heavenly Twins’?”’ asked an Englishman of an Irishman. es, | have. And ‘The Sorrows of Satan’?’’ “Yes."” “And have you read ‘Looking Back- wards’ ?’" “How the divil could I do that?’’ said Pat.—London Evening Standard. A Trouble-maker—‘‘ What sort of a fel- low is he?"” “*A trouble-maker "* “He seems peaceable enough."? “know; but he’s the sort of a blun- dering chap that denies all the lies you've told your wife.'"—Detroit Free Press. Satisfaction— Miss Parvenu—I was al- most sorry, ma, that you spoke so rudely to that poor little Mrs. Willis. Mamma—Well, my dear, pray where is the satisfaction of being in the best soci- ety if you cannot snub those who are out of it?—Club-Fellow. As Society Sees It—‘‘I thought you were going to move into a more expensive &partment?"” “The landlord saved us the trouble,’’ replied Mrs. Flimgilt. ‘‘He raised the rent of the one we have been occupying.”’ —Washington Star. It Does So—‘* Why did you let him kiss you?’" “Well,” said the candid girl, ‘after you have let a man hug you in the ball- Toom, it does seem inconsistent to refuse im a kiss in the conservatory. ''—Kansas City Journal. Since War Broke Out —‘*What’s become of he great basso, De Celeri?” “He's honking for an auto livery.""— Cleveland Plain Dealer. j Ram: ORE beautiful than France, Spain, Italy, Egypt or the Orient; less expensive to visit and more romantic in its pictur- esque interest—such is the Winter Resort Region along the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. A region of the most fashionable hotels in the world, as well as desirable family homes and cottages where one may spend the winter under “Summer” skies and enjoy the finest bathing, fishing, yachting, automobiling, golf, tennis and a multiplicity of other outdoor sports no matter how great or how limited one’s income. To the Carolina Resorts of Aiken, Augusta and Summerville via old historic Charleston, Magnolia Gardens — most beautiul in the workd ~ Fort Sumter and Moukne, lil of Palms and the famous battery, with the old homes of America's Florida, the enchanted by Ae Key Wert, the “American Gibralter” of Tampa on wah delightfully quaint characterateas of "Old Spain’, both world famous ax the home of the cigar indust St. Peterburg, actos the bay from “Tampa, ene of the test dehakiful Gull of Mexico. Havana, only a few hou from Key West, juny termed the "Amert- can Paris”, with the alluring climate of “Jtaly™, and fascination picturesqueness of “Old Spain”, Galveston, one toeat inviting, svinter bathing, fahing and yachting tesora, the Tateway to Texas and the great southwest, to San Anton's historic, Alamo and Spanish Missions or to California ‘and Youemite, or to Arona and the Grand Canyoo. All Included in a Great Variety of “Circle Tour” Fares and Winter Tourist Tickets Going and returning by steamer, or one way by steamer and returning by tail, with liberal stop-over privileges at all principal cities of the United States. Also cruises to Porto Rico, Nassau, Mexico and Santo Domingo. CLYDE—MALLORY LINES Pier 36, North River, New York DISTRICT PASSENGER OFFICES: BOSTON —192 Washington St. PHILADELPHIA—701 Chestnat St. NEW YORK — 290 Broadway HOTEL CHELSEA West Twenty-Third Street, at Seventh Avenue, NEW YORK. The Fireproof Hotel of New York. ¢ Rooms.—400 Baths, European plan.—s00 Rooms, All Outsi Room with adjoining bath, $1.00 and $1.50; two persons, $2.00 and $2.50. Room with private bath, one person, $2.00; two persons, $3.00. » parlor, bedroom and bath, $3.00 and upward. ation, ten minutes from Grand Central Station. Within convenient walking rest hotel to the steamship piers and to the railway terminals at foot distance of shopp! of West Twenty-third Street, ry «I table d"hote, Club Breakfasts, s3¢.; Luncheons, Soe., and Dinne artics. New colored map of New York sent free on application. Music. comicbooks.com