Judge, 1909-06-19 · page 5 of 16
Judge — June 19, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"The Plains Truth"** (top): A sketch mocking an adult's poor eyesight, with a child asking why the adult looks "through the glasses" rather than at them—a joke about misusing spectacles. **"Antiques" and "Confusion of Terms"** (left/middle): Short humorous columns about collecting antique furniture and the ambiguous distinction between "Mildred" and "Reginald." **"How Jones Made the Garden"** (bottom): A four-panel comic strip showing a man's comical misadventure attempting gardening. He initially plans to create a garden, but the sequence suggests his efforts go badly awry, ending with him apparently injured or defeated—a physical-comedy joke about amateur gardening incompetence. The humor relies on situational comedy and visual slapstick rather than topical political satire.
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= Gis Cushing — THE PLAIN ‘TRUTH Visitor —* And how do 1 look through the glasses, my dear?” Child—* Plaines than ever.” ANTIQUES. CONFUSION OF TERMS. A NTIQUE things are for antique minds, The mind that is ca- 66 JS THAT a go between Mildred and Reginald?” pable of being attracted to antiques ought to be steam-cleaned, “Judging from the length of time he spends at her house, overhauled, tar-papered, and laid away in moth balls in a it looks more like a stay.”” musty attic, filled with love letters, Gudey’s Ladies’ Books, Ballou's Magazines, and family skeletons, There it should be left until the You don’t need a horse and wagon to deliver the sgoods, family moves, when it an ahoutd be thrown Inte a HOW JONES MADE ‘THE GARDEN. pile with other truck, from whence it goes to form the substratum of some new real-estate al- lotment but recently r claimed from pulsing tides or stagnant swamps. An antique mind should not be put in an insane asylum, Such an environment would be altogether too rational. On the other hand, there is some hope for the mind that is satisfied with mod- 1. “Since you are going to stay home to-day you fein thingn rads in iraita as well make the garden.”” tionof the antique. That is to say, any mind that doesn’t look ond the label is a material assist- ance to business, If you must lean toward an- tiques, do not be too par- ticular about the age of the articles offered. ELLIS 0, JONES. [15 AS bard for a girl to keep a secret as it is for her to keep her cloak buttoned over a new gown. 3. By 4. “Well, this beats garden-work all right.” comicbooks.com