Judge, 1909-06-19 · page 4 of 16
Judge — June 19, 1909 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **three separate satirical pieces**: 1. **"Judge's Favorite"**: A photograph and caption praising an actress named Anna Held in "Miss Innocence," noting the show's theatrical success. 2. **"Tramp Life Up to Date"**: A cartoon mocking hobos' adoption of automobiles, showing vagrants in a car. The dialogue jokes that tramps now "pound on automobile tires for automobiles" instead of traditional begging. 3. **"Straight Dope"**: A brief dialogue satirizing government fish commissions, suggesting they simply advertise fishing resorts rather than genuinely managing fish stocks. 4. **"Angelo Murillos' Atelier of Tonsorial Art"**: A decorative illustration advertising barbershop services, with an "Art Notes" section below. The page primarily targets **modernization's comedic contradictions** and satirizes **government bureaucratic inefficiency**.
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JUDGE'S FAVORITE. VIDA WHITMORE, WITH ANNA HELD IN "MISS INNOCENCE.” Jupce likes to join the joyful throng That hurries merrily alon The wide sidewalks of gay Broadway To where you "re advertised to play WHEN HE WROTE IT. LONGFELLOW is supposed to have written the lines beginning, ‘* Tell me not in mournful numbers "' after steadily reading the month's magazines. Limousine Larry TRAMP LIFE UP ‘TO DATE. “1 Vought you said you knew de roads aroun’ dis part o de country. I been gittin’ notin’ but jounces an’ jolts since you got me ter quit de trucks fer automobilin’.”* STRAIGHT TIPS. Ted—** Does the government fisheries commission have any difficulty in finding waters to stock?"" Ned—"*T shouldn't think so. resorts that advertise good fishing.”’ ART NO pirit of art dominates ant union control is not All they have to do is to pick out those summer Angelo Murillos 4 ATELIER of Pe THNSORIAL ART. dence, such is the atelier of Angelo Murillo, comicbooks.com