Judge — June 27, 1903 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Top Cartoon ("A Big Difference"):** A newly arrived farmer observes many people in a crowded rural setting and assumes they're neighbors. Farmer Brown corrects him—they're actually his *relatives*. This satirizes rural family size and suggests the countryside is overrun with the farmer's extended kin rather than being a community of distinct neighbors. It's a joke about large rural families and isolation. **Bottom Cartoon ("Considerably Higher"):** A hotel guest asks the clerk if the establishment is significantly elevated above sea level. The clerk punts on the geography question, instead making a pun: the hotel is "higher" in price—four dollars a day above standard rates. This is straightforward wordplay humor mocking inflated hotel pricing by exploiting the double meaning of "higher." Both cartoons use rural/working-class characters and simple, pun-based humor typical of Judge's style.