Judge — January 9, 1904 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several domestic humor sketches typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The cartoons satirize marital dynamics and household authority: **"From Time Immemorial"** depicts a husband's excuse ("barefaced lie") about telephoning business keeping him downtown—a common evasion about infidelity or leisure time that wives supposedly shouldn't question. **"He Obeyed"** and **"About the Size of It"** show a child's obedience to a policeman versus resistance to parental authority, and a child calling his father "Colonel" (a title he doesn't possess)—gentle satire on paternal pretension and household hierarchy. The scattered anecdotes mock masculine pretense, wives' skepticism of husbands' excuses, and the gap between men's self-importance and family reality. The humor targets familiar domestic friction points of the era.