Judge, 1901-12-28 · page 14 of 49
Judge — December 28, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page presents several holiday-themed satirical cartoons mocking middle-class American anxieties of the early 1900s. **"A Victim"** depicts a father experiencing "nervous prostration" (mental exhaustion) from Christmas bills—satirizing how gift-giving creates financial stress disguised as festive generosity. **"The Woman of It"** jokes that women's first instinct upon receiving gifts is checking the price tag, mocking both consumer materialism and gender stereotypes about female vanity. **"No Home"** satirizes urban apartment living by showing someone cutting down a Christmas tree to fit cramped quarters—commenting on how modernization and city life force compromises on traditional customs. **"The Very Latest"** mocks new automobile culture by inventing a disease called "auto foot" (from constant bell-ringing) as the sequel to "bike face" (from cycling)—ridiculing how emerging technologies create absurd new social anxieties and physical ailments in the public imagination. The poems celebrate simpler, pre-commercial holiday values, creating ironic contrast with the satirized modern complaints.
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eae i i i) a My A VICTIM, * Pa, what is nervous prostration ?"" “ My son, it is the way the father of a large family feels after Christmas, when the bills are coming in for his own Christmas presents.”” UNDER THE MISTLETOE. A HOLIDAY EDEN. ox“ E lived a man w be gre w not pale He lost no steep o'er feathered Ruff ‘Twas Eve at morning, Eve at noon, rev ; , a la mode, No store proclaimed + x Che : Of she G Line fear, For sh were quite unknown, ‘The same by winter's leave— And none were there to him deny The rapturous sweet of which I sing The sweets of Christmas eve. Was Adai hristma THE WOMAN OF IT. NO HOME. Mrs. Dorcas—» What was the first thing she did when she got Jaggles—* Why are you cutting all the branches off the Christ- the Christmas present ? mas-tree 2” Dorcas—" Went to the store to find out what it cost.” Waggles—* To make it fit. I live in a flat.” PE wR uve SD% laws THE VERY LATEST. * Why Is It your husband has such a peculiar habit of tapping his foot? 1 noticed him ‘doing it in the parlor. Has he got St. No, poor fellow! That's the latest disease. It's called the ‘auto foot,” the sequel to the ‘ bike face.’ It comes from ringing the bell on his automobile!" comicbooks.com