Judge, 1908-02-15 · page 5 of 16
Judge — February 15, 1908 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct sections: 1. **Top strip** ("Judge's Moving Picture Machine"): A sequential cartoon showing characters in slapstick situations—people falling, running, and causing chaos. It's entertainment humor with no apparent political content. 2. **"Reaching a Decision"**: A brief anecdote about a commercial traveler (salesman) arriving at a Pennsylvania village inn where a quarrel is occurring. The humor relies on a simple misunderstanding and dialectal speech. 3. **"Among the Suffragists"**: A satirical piece mocking female suffrage advocates, depicting a woman interrupting court proceedings with "confess what?" The cartoon suggests suffragists as disruptive and unreasonable. 4. **Additional items**: Various short humorous notes and illustrations typical of Judge's miscellaneous humor content. The page reflects early 20th-century American satirical attitudes, particularly skepticism toward women's suffrage activism.
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JUDGE'S MOVING-PICTURE MACHINE—THE ur moving puctures Directions for wing ¢ REACHING A DECISION. 1 amusing experi Th veler tells which happened A COMMERCIAL tr to him in the int traveler landed ina village er than of Pennsylv and sought the only hotel inthe pkice 4 not much ised in the average dwelling. He stepped on the porch, but hearing. voices Ap as the excitement showed no indies anger, he paused at the door rently there was a quarrel in progress, and of diminishing, the traveler knocked Jnudly on the door. “Hell “Jest y © Kara an’ me is decidin’ thet print new SHORT NOTES FROM A “NATURE FAKER'S” DIARY. AAS OSPRICH in Tne tried toe hardly squeezed its cranium into the aperture when the sand-hole bit the he cried.“ Who's the proprietor of this plice?” © in feminine tones from the house. ay whar ye ar Al its head in a sund-hole, but it had ontril head off A kangiroo in Zuzu has been trained to yo from door to door and deliver mail whieh it ried in its pouch. “They are now teaching it to blow a whistle and won? with the servants, itu in Noab tried whifle-trees, bo-vines and r to grow Anheuser-Bu: The mice of Ratchez will not cata piece of cheese unless it is accom- panied by a wedge of pie When the wed to move about and A deaf mute had his hands chopped off ina sausage machine. Watcher laid the » the plate they comm shape themselves in the deaf and dumb language as if talking to each other There is a rhinoceros in Buj with skin sothick thatthe perspira July doc ooze out until wt December There is a man living in Tunik four arms and with hands. On rainy days he plays poke with himself AN EDUCATIONAL Moturk—" Where do you fer Sos—"On my EPIDEMIC I sick?” way to School.” for money. PIE-OUS ‘TRAMIP'S ‘TRIUMPH he eyes rapadty along each row from left to right. If you do mot find the pactures moving st must be because you are mot easily moved. AMONG THE SUFFRAGISTS. A MAN in Colorado being defended and prosecuted by female interrupted an exciting tangle with the exclamation, “I confess, I confess!” * Confess what?” inquired the judge. “Oh, damned if E know! But I confess!” PARTIAL COMPENSATION. CYYZELL, Brown, [sce that your son has got his T suppose he gets much attorneys shingle out at last. enjoyment out of his practic Brown (grimly)—“ 1 hope so; that’s all he does get out of it.” REMINISCENT. Bases (on his first rip)" It wasn't such a bad old world after all." comicbooks.com