Judge, 1915-05-15 · page 7 of 24
Judge — May 15, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge contains six separate humorous short pieces typical of early 20th-century American satire. **Key items:** The top cartoon depicts three well-dressed urbanites; the caption references "Whistlers" (likely James McNeill Whistler paintings), satirizing wealthy collectors' pretension. The jokes below mock suburban newcomers borrowing tools, working-class men like "Casey" and "Clancy," and romantic clichés. "One on Casey" jokes about a man betting he'll *miss* shooting a peanut off someone's head—the humor relies on audience assumptions about Irish-American working-class competence. "Still Life" mocks a farmer's hired laborer and early cinema ("movin' picture"). **"Lost Somewhere"** uses racist dialect and a caricatured Black figure ("coon"), presenting a stereotypical narrative of someone who "made it" while watching former peers still labor—reflecting deeply offensive period attitudes. The cartoons collectively satirize social aspirations, courtship, charity, and class dynamics through period-specific prejudices now recognized as bigoted.
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The collector—| bought two Whistlers to-day. A Wise Precaution 64] END your father the lawn mower? Why, certainly,’’ said the new sub- urbanite graciously. ‘*But he’s early, isn’t he? I haven't cut my own grass ae “*That’s what pop said,"" replied the neighbor’s boy. **So he thought he'd bor- row the mower before you rif = got it out of order.” Dh ie One on Casey Clancy was chuckling. “What's the joke?" asked Mooney. “Why, Casey just bet me ten dollars he could shoot a peanut off me head with a shotgun.’* “What's funny about that?’’ : “T took him up because I know he’ll miss The lady—Aht A Practical Answer ‘D BRAVE snow and ice,"’ he said, ‘for your hand; I'd toil ‘neath torrid, gray skies. I'd give my life freely for such a stake and The right to light fires in your eyes."” “I'd rather you'd strive to win a beefsteak Than the stake that you mention,"’ said she; “And if you'll light fires every morn ere I wake, I think *twould appeal most to me.”” —Britt Adams. Tightwad’s Mite Charity worker—Surely you can spare the price of a cigar! Crusty codger—Here’s two cents. stogies. Ismoke Luck is all right, but hustling for some- thing beats it many a lap. TT me A male and a female, | presume. The Observant Child 66] ITTLE girl, does your papa have much trouble with his automobile?’" “Yes, sir. He has as much trouble with it as if he was married to it."" Still Life “*That feller’s a fool !’’ says Farmer Hitcher. “*He'sdaown in the medders a-tryin’ away To git, by gravy! a movin’ picthur Of my hired man that works by the day!”” Lost Somewhere “*Dat’s de way Ah got mah start,’” re- marked a gorgeously attired ‘‘coon,’’ who was critically watching a former co-laborer digging a ditch and perspiring freely in the hot sun. “*Maybe 'tis,’’ replied the other, with- out raising his eyes; ‘‘but what did you do with it?"’ comicbooks.com