Judge, 1907-05-25 · page 3 of 16
Judge — May 25, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon, "A Kind Landlord," satirizes landlord-tenant relations. A poorly dressed man (tenant) confronts his landlord about rent increases, while a child watches from below and a woman bends over inside the dwelling. The satire targets the landlord's callousness toward struggling working-class renters. The main article, "How to Rig Up an Auto at Home," offers humorous DIY automotive instructions for working-class readers who cannot afford proper cars. It mocks both the aspiration to automobile ownership among the poor and the absurdity of constructing vehicles from wagon wheels and plumbing supplies. The lower section contains brief illustrated jokes about everyday urban life, typical of Judge's satirical humor targeting social class disparities of the era.
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< > YA A KIND LANDLORD. Tue LanoLoro—" I'm here to Inform you, Mr. Hogan, that I'm going to raise your rent.”” Hocan—"' It's koind ye are, sor, fer Oi've thried t' do it mesilf an’ cuddent.”" HOW TO RIG UP AN AUTO AT HOME. a piece of soap has not been left in the bath-tub! This might cause A WORKINGMAN’S home is incomplete without an automobile, the chauffeur to slip up and lose control of the machine. A piece of His children cry for it. For this reason we give below a simple limburger cheese rule for constructing a horseless rig at home. Already we have re- can be placed in ceived thousands of letters from all over the world, thanking us for this the back to give it clever arrangement. Ever since publishing our easy method Tom the odor of a real Edison has been acting sullenly and Nikola Tesla envies us. And motorcar. though perhaps we might jeopardize The above in- the friendship of these great men, yet formation is offer- we will go on publishing these scientific ed gratis, and we hints to the poor and thus enlighten will gladly give those who have been groveling about in more details upon the dark so long, owing to the extor- receipt of letter tionate price of gas. Here is our won- asking for same. derful scheme laid bare : Each letter, how- Go to your family plumber and ask ever, must be ac- him for a galvanized bath-tub, Owing companied by an to the stagnancy of his business just at advertisement con- Present, he will willingly give you one _ tained in this issue free of cost, just to make room in his overcrowded shop. ‘Then take and seven dollars the wheels from someone's wagon or private surrey and fasten them fos Deze to the tub, making sure that the axles are strong enough to hold a large family. “HAVE you After this has been done, go to the butcher's and purchase four seen the lat- large bolognas. Put a hole in each end, and through one of the holes est thing?” asked blow severely until you have blown all the meat out of the hole at the his friend, who other end. When the skin is entirely meatless, blow up the skin with came along after a bicycle-pump and fasten onto the tires of the wheels. After this go he had been stand- down cellar and take the works out of a gas-meter and fasten to the ing forty-five min- axles holding the wheels. As a gas-meter keeps on going around utes on a subway whether you are burning gas or not, you will see at once that it will platform. keep right on going when attached to the axles, causing the axles to “Yes,” he said; THE LURE OF THE DIME. revolve, and thus making the vehicle go along automatically. “I'm waiting for Jimny (the lonesome one)—'* Ah, de fickleness uv Put a few chairs in the tub, and purchase a tin horn at anovelty- it now. I'm mar- Women! Only last night she wuz sayin’ dem same ste Great care must be exercised in one thing, however—de sure ried to it.” spend then.” A home-made automobile. comicbooks.com