Judge, 1901-10-05 · page 16 of 16
Judge — October 5, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top cartoon ("He Looked Pinched"):** A photographer is about to take Mr. Fanner's portrait in a studio setting. Fanner, looking uncomfortable, jokes that he'd prefer laughing gas (anesthesia used in dentistry) to endure the photo session. The satire mocks the unpleasant experience of early portrait photography—the stiff poses, long exposures, and discomfort involved. **Bottom cartoon ("Where His Value Lay"):** Two characters (appearing to be Irish immigrants, suggested by dialect) discuss a goat. One reveals the goat's actual "value" isn't the animal itself but the baseballs hidden inside it—apparently stolen property belonging to their baseball club. The joke satirizes petty theft and the irony that the goat is only worth thirty cents without its contraband contents. The Irish dialect and setting suggest satire about immigrant communities and urban crime.
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=| BAcK- GRounp i GO & Per Dey HE LOOKED “ PINCHED.” Mr. Fanner (having his photo. ‘took "")—"Say, young feller, T think I'll take gas, if it’s all the same ter you !”” -—— wo COPYRIGHT 1901 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF EW YORK. WHERE HIS VALUE LAY. SachettA Whales Litho & Pg Co Rew York © .mmy—" Dat’s a walluable goat youse got, Mister Dooley !'* Mr. Dootry (innocently)—" He is, me bye, he is thot !’* Cummmy—"' Dead shure he is; he’s got inside of him a half a dozen one dollar baseballs dat beezlong to our club! Odderwise de plug wouldn't be wort’ t’irty cents!”