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This page satirizes early-1900s America's obsession with automobiles. The main cartoon, "The New Obsession," uses playful neologisms ("automojigs," "automocow," "automocook") to mock how completely motor vehicles have infiltrated daily life—from farming to romance to children's play. The humor works through exaggeration: farmers now use "gasoline automocows" for milking; golf caddies become "automocaddies"; even barnyard hens produce "automo-eggs." The satirist suggests Americans have mindlessly absorbed automobiles into every activity, replacing horse-drawn and manual labor with motorized versions of the same tasks. This reflects real anxiety about rapid technological change transforming society. For modern readers, it's notable as early commentary on how transformative (and potentially absurd) automobile adoption appeared to 1910 observers—capturing genuine cultural disruption, even as the language choices make it seem quaint today.

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SO'4E CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS. THE NEW OBSESSION. FAT Christmas maketh a| Oh, it’s motoring here and it’s motoring lean New Year. ‘there, Better a candied apple on a/ It’s motoring, motoring everywhere. stick than a jeweler’s bill on| The babies in motoring carriages go, the way. The kids soon will coast on the silvery Be tactful in filling anoth- snow er’s stocking lest you put| In automobobs up steep automoslides your foot in it. | In wildly hilarious automorides, Forgive your enemy to- Our dancers are dancing gay automojigs, day, even if you have to Our doctors driv> round in their auto- HEADACHES 104,254,505, & $120 Bottles. ART CALENDARS FOR LOVERS AND OTHERS start a new quarrel to-mor-| row. Let your gifts go into the hands of a receiver, but don’t pet into his clutches yourself. A ton of coal in the cellar is worth two baby grand pianos in the creditors” xbedule. Let the baby beat the drum and Wil- lietoot the horn. That is their idea of pace on earth, It is a mean father who won't lend tis baby his golf stockings to hang up a Christmas Eve.—Success. ATHING OF ODDITY IS A JOY FOREVER. “Isn't your hat rather curious in ape?” asked the uninformed “Certainly,’” answered hia wife. listo be. Any hat that wasn’t curious inshape would look queer.""—Washing- om Star, There are two kinds of rice—wedding tod pudding. —Oneonta Star, mogigs; And those who would perch on fame’s highest bara Now hitch up their wagons to automo- | stars. |The farmer is amiling his harvest to gain When loading his hay on his automo- wain, |Or scarring the earth with his automo- plow, Or milking his gasoline automocow; Or sending the choreman with automo- jegs To gather each morn the fresh automo- eggs "Neath the automohens in the automo- coop, To the tune of the rooster’s shrill auto- mowhoop; While he who plays golf will rejoice at the call Of the automocaddy who chases his ball. The automocamel will soon lead the van From Automosheba to Automodan; And down in the kitchen, by 7 hook or by crook, Some day we'll rejotee in an automocook Who more than a week in the household will stop To joy in the jests of the auto- mocop. Yes, it's motors by day and it’s motors by night; Wherever we look there’s a motor in sight. All over the land they are quite the fromage, And every old barn has become a garage! —Success. THEY ARE STILL RIGHT. Hardup—"There was a time when people used to say that I had more money than brains, but they can’t say that now. Wife “Why not' | Hardup— Because I've come down to my last shilling.”” Wife—* Well, you've still got a shilling." —Illustrated Bits, THE NEW FASHION, Conscience doth make cowards | nvite special attention to an attractive line of 1910 ndars. Her Buo: e 14x ** is our de luxe calendar for this year. \ Hand-tinted, on heavy board. $2.00. JUDG Calendar, for $1.00, con Flagg’s most popular drawings, inch ing Your Reply, Dictated, Recipe for V Nest, Holding Hands, Good-Night, on heavy size 11x16, in colors Our 50 cent line is composed of attractively mounted prints, selected from best sellers by Flagg, King, Jameson, Monahan, ete. Size 9 1-2x13, hand-tinted. CIRCULAR ON APPLICATION, LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY 225 FIFTH AVENUE - - ins seven sheets of Yours Truly, Await- Cake, Homer's stock, NEW YORK TOUCHING VERSE. At first she touches up her hair To see if it’s in place, And then with manner debonair She touches up her face. A touch to curls behind her ear, A touch to silken collar, And then she’s off to hubby dear-— To touch him for a dollar. —New Orleans Times-Demoerat, TWO SIDES TO IT. Artist—“Have you noticed that long hair makes a man look intel lectual?"” His friend—“Well, I’ve seen wives pick them off their husbands’ coats, when it made them look foolish.""—London Opinion. VERY RUDE. “Going to call on your new neighbors next door?” “Not I. They insulted me the day they moved in.’* “Ag to how?” “Asked me to occupy a sofa on the sidewalk. Said they feared 1 couldn't get a good view from be- hind the blinds."’"—Red Hen. THE APPLICATION. Unto those who talk and talk This proverb should appeal The steam that blows the whisi “Oil wo “An? why shure, was that?” tis on account av a remark he made. Will never turn the whe | “Says he, ‘Casey,’ says he, ‘ ye're discharged." | —Chicago News. of us all for fear we'll get found —Landon Sketch. Beware the fur—when it fli out.—N. Y. Press. London Punch. HOW TO TURN THE FRONT ROW TO COMMERCIAL USE. advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. - j comicbooks.com