Judge, 1908-06-20 · page 8 of 28
Judge — June 20, 1908 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This Judge page combines two satirical sections mocking small-town American life and hypocrisy. **Top cartoon**: Shows a domestic dispute where a wife accuses her husband of enjoying Paris while she labored at home. His defense—that she's "all right" with leisure time—satirizes male dismissiveness toward women's domestic work and unequal marital dynamics. **"Reflections of Uncle Ezra"**: A rural gossip column parodying small-town life through fictional anecdotes—bad matrimonial ads, tobacco chewing becoming normal again, a milliner using shredded wheat as rat poison. The humor targets provincial foolishness and hypocrisy. **Bottom cartoons**: Two panels by Roy K. Moulton illustrating the column's theme: men who publicly tolerate others' flaws while being "a raging volcano of intolerance in his home." The first shows marital discord; the second depicts a man pointing out a child's misbehavior while his wife (arms crossed) observes his own hypocrisy. The satire targets masculine hypocrisy—men preaching virtue publicly while behaving poorly privately.
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bei Tow WILLIAMS, PAIR DIVISION. ¢ in Paris with the w REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. HAVE seen a lot of French horns on automobiles, but, by gravy! Thave seen a blame sight m enhorns on " A feller who puts a matrimonial ad. in the paper is running a long ways down the road to mect trouble. It ix getting so nowadays that a feller who chaws tobacco is almost as much of a freak as the feller was twenty years ago who didn’t. Some men are born poor and others acquire automobiles. A who thinks he has got to tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about yourself is more of a nuisance than a downright durn liar. Our milliner is using a shredded-wheat biscuit for a rat, and the constable is at work on the case, trying’ to find out if she is violating. I the pure-food law. About the most aggravat- Wite's enjoying myself.” porch off from Hilliker’s gencral store and smashed four rod of fence shingles. urch, Spink, of our villag but her grandson ime to give Elmer a good thumpin’. ink has got anew set of false teeth, Let the im- ind we will have a pretty fine-lookin’ town. + its own reward, especially if a feller is runnin’ a seven- Now would be a good time in New York he ut of the stage provements Virtus column ne na one-column town, I hat ly chaw tobacco or smoke a pipe, but, by cracky! Ud rather see ’em doing that than kissing poodle dogs. ere are a whole lot of people sufferin’ from inflammatory religion. ROY K, MOULTON, in’ thing in this world is to dollar dog eat up y Tibbits, of our Hank ory isa place where they keep fish, but Uncle Hod Peters says Hank is a liar, and that a place hey keep fish is an an- Hicks says he wants with money. t is pretty dif- ficult to marry a woman with- out money. Abner Hanks made a mis- take the other day and filled the tank of his forty-eandle- power runabout with gin in- stead of gasoline, and the thing wouldn't stay in |, but knocked the front gz his fellows—— an who tolerates all kinds of humiliating HH) Ah hy EVER MEET HIM? but is a raging volcano of intolerance in his home comicbooks.com