Judge, 1909-10-30 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 30, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon ("A Terrible Pest"):** A figure labeled "Judge" sweeps up scattered automobiles, suggesting regulatory concerns about automobiles as a nuisance or danger to society—likely early 20th-century automobile anxiety. **Middle Section:** Contains humor about suffrage (voting rights for women) and a philosophical essay by Elgin Burroughs on happiness and experience. **Bottom Cartoon ("He Tripped Up the Old Lady"):** A thin man appears to have knocked over a large woman laden with bottles and containers labeled "Business," "Rulings," and other terms. This likely satirizes conflict between business interests and government regulation or judicial decisions affecting commerce. The cartoons reflect Progressive Era tensions between regulation, women's rights, and business freedom.
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+ phy > A TERRIBLE PEST. PA'S HOME REGALIA. MUSINGS BY THE AMATEUR PHILOSOPHER. OBBIE, along with his mother, was watching a XPERIENCE is a synonym for our blunders, Masonic ceremony in which his father had a E Perhaps the worst quality of the vain man is his socia- leading role. bility. “Oh, ma,” giggled Bobbie, ‘sce pa's We are always as happy as we think we are. apron! Ain't it a skimpy thing? Why A man with prejudices is nearly always reliable. don’t he wear the big one that you make 4 the advance agent of life. him put on when he helps you wash the air of the ‘con’ man is invariably cool and bracing. dishes?” It occurs to me that there is more rejoicing in church with ref- Then “* everybody laughed but father.’’ erence to one millionaire that repenteth than over ninety and nine persons of no means that need not repentance. THE suffragists win the right to vote, the next thing they'll When a man celebrates his birthday he takes a day off demand is that each voting booth contain a mirror. woman, a year. LGN UK HE PRIPPED UP ‘THE OLD LADY—BUT HE DID NOT MEAN TO DO IT. comicbooks.com