Judge, 1904-08-20 · page 16 of 16
Judge — August 20, 1904 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate satirical cartoons: **"Quite Unnecessary"** (top): A merchant tries to sell a sombrero to a rough frontier character ("Irksome Ike") from "Graveyard Gulch." The joke is that Ike won't pay extra for ventilation holes in the crown—the bullet holes will come naturally when he returns to his lawless mining town. It satirizes Western frontier violence as inevitable and commonplace. **"Feminine Strenuosity"** (bottom): Playing on Theodore Roosevelt's popular "Strenuous Life" philosophy, this mocks the backbreaking domestic labor women performed. "Lazy Jim Jackson" brags that his wife lives this strenuous life—making fires, dressing children, scrubbing floors, feeding hogs. The irony is harsh: while Roosevelt's "strenuosity" meant vigorous athletics and outdoor pursuits for men, women's strenuous lives meant endless exhausting housework. The cartoon critiques both male complacency about women's labor and Roosevelt's gendered ideal.
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sky ns SCALPS Foe | TRADE. QUITE UNNECESSARY. Mercuant—* Do you want me to put some holes for the ventilation in the crown of this sombrero?" Irksoue Ixe—" Nope: don't trouble yerself ‘bout de holes, Cully. When | git back ter Graveyard Gulch de boyees will look ter dat.” COmrRIEnT 1904 8y JUDGE COMPANY PUBLISMEAS, 225 FOURIH AVE. MEOW YORR FEMININE STRENUOSITY. Scheer Withee Lins b Pig Co NewYork strange life, dis, we's ibbin’ tn “* Yais, ‘tis—wot we calls de strenuous life—fire ter be made in de mawnin’, chillun dressed, beds made, flo’ scrubbed, hawgs fed, wood sawed, an’ "— Deacon’ Crowe—" Hol’ on! Who does all dis ?"” Lazy Jim Jacxson—" Why, mah wife, ob co'se! Who'd yo’ s'pose ?"* comicbooks.com