Judge — January 21, 1905 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two satirical cartoons critiquing social class and labor conditions. **Top cartoon**: An employer interviews an applicant, demanding a man who doesn't smoke, drink, or gamble—for six dollars weekly. The applicant sarcastically notes he'd need to avoid eating too. The satire targets exploitative employers offering poverty wages while demanding moral perfection from working-class employees. **Bottom cartoon** ("A Conservative Hunter"): A boy with a gun aims at birds while an adult warns him to show "confidence in wet birds he'll ketch." The humor appears to reference hunting ethics or conservation—the "conservative" title suggesting criticism of those claiming environmental concern while wastefully hunting. Both cartoons use exaggerated character drawings typical of early-20th-century Judge illustrations to mock social hypocrisy and labor exploitation.