Judge, 1908-03-28 · page 3 of 16
Judge — March 28, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "He Had an Interest"** This satirizes suffragette activism in London. A man (Mr. Colden-Sanderson) pledges to give ten pounds daily to keep his wife in jail during suffragette arrests—a cynical commentary on the women's suffrage movement, suggesting he'd pay to avoid her activism at home. **Middle Section: "Unreliable History"** Parodies Hercules' labors as analogous to Teddy Roosevelt's tasks, with absurd mythological references. The "dinner pail" cartoon below mocks whether politicians can fill workers' economic needs. **Bottom: "Don't Be Too Careless With That Stick"** Shows someone labeled "Our Industries" being threatened. This appears to critique labor unrest or workplace safety issues of the era. The page uses exaggerated caricature and visual metaphor typical of early 20th-century political satire.
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HE HAD AN INTEREST. THE time the first suffragettes were ar- rested in London there was a big mass-mecting of their sympathizers. Many speeches expressing various degrees of indignation and horror were made, but it was left. for Mr. Cobden-Sander. son to reach the climax of ing, He declared, in vehement tones, “Twill pledge myself to © ten pounds for eve y day my wife stays in jail AFTER THE FAILURE. Expert accountant—* Did you not keep a cash-hook 2” Cashier—* No; the mon- ey went out so soon after it eame in that we could not en- ter it.” HIS MA: R'S VOICE, UNRELIABLE HISTORY. ERCULES had wrestled the Nemean lion, destroyed the H Lernean hydra, captured the Arcadian hind and the boar of Erymanthus, captured the Cretan bull and the man- cating mares of Diomedes, seized the girdle of Hippolyte, brought the oxen of Geryones from Erythia a gardens of the Hesperides, and carried Cerberus from Hades to the upper world, when a messenger boy rushed into his presence with a nd the golden apples from the telegram urging him to proceed at once to Washington and accept a place in a strenuous President's cabinet “Not ¢ r life!” roared Hercules as he beat a hasty retreat toward the fastnesses of Mount (Eta. “I know my limit.” ‘AFRAID OF HIS NEW TROUBLE. Mistress—* Wow is Uncle Mose, Dinah?” inah—“1 don't ’zackly know, missus. De feber is gone, but de doctah says he’s done got de converlessons naw.” CAN HE FILL ‘THE DINNER-PAIL? L'ENVOI OF THE EARLY RISERS. (With due apologies) HEN the last a had to rise early long as they will, late’ to their couches few more minutes still, pall be of their chesnsiny No matter how great But none shall be tre And no one shall all them at all And none shall be guilty of snoring And keeping his neighbor awake, And never a nt alarm-clock Be allowed on his slumbers to break. Bet cach for the joy of the steeping, And cach in his separate nest Shall just getup when hh When he feels he’s had en “DON'T BE TOO CARELESS WITH ‘THAT STICK, MY SON." igh Fest. MARY MORTON. comicbooks.com