Judge, 1904-05-07 · page 19 of 20
Judge — May 7, 1904 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with several short humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons. The content reflects early-20th-century American social attitudes: **Key humor pieces:** 1. **Election-day banking joke**: Satirizes the practice of closing both saloons AND banks on election day, implying both enable irresponsible behavior. 2. **Elopement cartoon**: Shows a couple fleeing; the woman asks to pray they won't be "overtaken"—suggesting parental or social disapproval of their elopement. 3. **Height-difference joke**: A tall woman tells her short fiancé he'll be "handy" for dress-fitting since they're the same height—mocking both the couple's size mismatch and women's domestic duties. 4. **Temperance joke**: A boy says his younger brother can't join the "Band of Hope" (a temperance organization) because "he ain't a teetotaler"—satirizing strict abstinence movements. 5. **Hercules cleaning stables**: Jokes that avoiding a harder household task (stove-cleaning) represents "easy" work—mocking domestic labor expectations. The page otherwise consists of period product advertisements (tea, coffee, insurance, whiskey, champagne).
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