Judge — July 11, 1903 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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# "The Best Way" Cartoon Analysis This cartoon satirizes early 20th-century class attitudes toward domestic service. A well-dressed man (labeled "Mr. Daniels") confronts his waiter with an impossible demand: "Walter, what do you expect me to open these eggs with?"—implying the eggs are served in their shells, unopened. The joke mocks the employer's deliberate rudeness disguised as bewilderment. The waiter's response—"With prayer, boss"—suggests that servants were expected to endure such humiliation with resigned acceptance, their only recourse being prayer. The cartoon critiques both the absurdity of upper-class pretension and the exploitation of working-class people, who had no realistic means to challenge such treatment beyond silent suffering or religious faith.