Judge, 1908-08-15 · page 2 of 16
Judge — August 15, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct sections: **"Vacations"** (left): A satirical cartoon showing an overworked American businessman escaping to nature, depicted as "Old Hercules" performing labors. The text advocates for outdoor recreation and contact with nature as necessary relief from urban work stress. **"Mosquitoes"** (center): An article criticizing doctors' lack of scientific understanding about malaria transmission. It sarcastically notes that while mosquitoes are known to spread the disease, the medical establishment hasn't effectively communicated this to the general public—a gap between professional knowledge and public education. **"Hearsed"** (right): Commentary on William Randolph Hearst and the Independence League political party, questioning whether Hearst's political ambitions serve genuine reform or merely his newspaper circulation interests. The bottom cartoon "The Obstacle That Blocked the Way" appears political but is unclear without additional context.
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Mrunwwick Mullding, 225 Fifth Aven New York. Cable Address,“ JOHN A. SLEICHER, President. FW. Schorvier 9130-7 4 Madison Square. Arthur Terry, Treasurer, in: Chicago Ut Hamilton, Art Editor. TH a cory. Burges Johnsen, Editor, KD WHEKLY AT 10 interes soe 290 : 135 nee hy draft on New Vork, of by express of postal order, mot ty laval checks Vor’ Cry inces The contents of JUDGE are crotected by cooyngh in both the Unites States and Great Britain. CONTRIBUTORS must inciose 4 stamped and self-addressed envelope with all manasnDtsy othevivise return uf the latter when found unavailanie cant 6¢ Yuaranieede stand. the pubilahers will be onder obil tact be prometly renorted on postal-card or by letter. O ON your Li JE popular ’ i you turing: the A Y fact that the cause of malaria is the of the summer. Don't mosquito has now been pretty thoroughly impressed upon us take your ‘k or your hy the doctors, All mosquitoes do not carry m: Only fortnight or your month, — the Anopheles is so careless, and only the female Anopheles at that. ast be, in lit- but tle de here. Be= not origi- VACATIONS. thing. of a re ways of distinguishinig this particular spe rit JupGE is not a scientific sheet, details are out of plac 8, we don’t know, M the doctors tell us, doc te in the mosquito, but is merely carried from some human being Americans short who has the disease, He inally got it from a mos- igh playtimes as it is, . Kot it from human being. Just who and we ought to make the began this transmission business the doctors don’t most of them, It is don’t know. But that the mosquitoes have the peful sign that we are effectively down to a science everyboby knows. getting the habit of play- ing outdoors when we We working of cour, which, of cour: Besides, ot of biting play, and the nearer to the ure the better HEARSED, Old Hereu "TIS doubtful whether there is any lel in our political history smber right to th z h has so lately blossomed out its recent convention and the anifested must be balm to the soul of William a terrifi ralty rs wrestled with a myth into al chap who was a — enthusiasm there Randolph Hearsed, who so results of the Ne poor corpse, howe’ And whether he ly ambitious politic of his newspapers, pr The won't tell, One thing w + is likely to disappoint- ant. Wil- he doesn’t know cause every tl to the earth he rose up is a trick financing a poli of Mother Earth's, Get right into clos et with her ix re and you rise up refreshed, Go into the woods, ple, or pla in the sand, and take only your oldest clothes with you, and as fe of them as possible, ‘Thus will you live to be old subscribers! Arthur Dr nof the Independence THESE FISHERMEN. tired of jokes about yinative fishermen and the fish that got away. It isan absurd t ition that fishermen liars th tsmen or golfers, or the dev- intsmen or yacl of any other sport, As tter of Js, his nearness ton » the life a fisherman and the great silences all about hin tend to make him peculiarly truth- ful. We know this to be truc » just been fishing. One Salmon that we almost landed weighed twenty-five pounds, THAT BLOCKED ‘THE OBSTACLE Way.