Judge — February 18, 1899 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two satirical cartoons about domestic health and parenting advice. **Top cartoon ("Where the Difficulty Lay"):** Features caricatured figures—identified as Feenie Featherstone and Cold Decker—debating a newspaper health article. The joke satirizes conflicting expert advice: the article recommends eating at regular intervals, but specifies waiting an hour after each meal. The cartoon mocks the impractical nature of such contradictory guidance. **Bottom cartoon ("Useful Education"):** Shows Mrs. and Farmer Jimlet discussing their son Harold's letter from village school. Harold claims he's "learning to fence" (construct barriers), but his parents humorously interpret this as fencing stolen goods—a dark joke about rural education and criminality. Both cartoons target advice columns and working-class parenting concerns common in early 20th-century America.