Judge — June 6, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two satirical cartoons from Judge magazine (copyright 1903): **Top cartoon ("According to the Looks, Yes!"):** depicts a disheveled man ("Lazy Wilkins") waking after sleeping three days, expressing shock in exaggerated dialect. The satire targets laziness and idleness. **Bottom cartoon ("Would Come in Handy"):** features characters with Irish surnames (Dooley, Kerrigan, Mrs. Dooley) in heavy Irish-dialect dialogue. The joke: a miser named Kerrigan spent his life saving money "for a rainy day" but died without enjoying it. Mrs. Dooley quips he should have saved actual rainy days instead of dollars—satirizing the futility of hoarding wealth without living. Both cartoons use exaggerated dialect and caricature typical of early-1900s American humor, poking fun at working-class Irish immigrants and commentary on greed versus life's pleasures.