Judge, 1910-02-26 · page 12 of 16
Judge — February 26, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical commentary on two major contemporary issues: **"Timely Notes on the High Cost of Living"** (top): Mock recipes humorously address the severe economic hardship of working-class Americans facing inflation. Suggestions like cooking old shoes, dog biscuits, and icicles—alongside bitter jokes about eating money itself—skewer both the impossible financial straits of the poor and the inadequate advice from wealthy commentators disconnected from real suffering. **"Water-Power Monopolies"** (center): The nursery rhyme parody ("Jack and Jill") satirizes powerful corporate monopolies (represented by "the Club" and "other Grabs") controlling water resources and blocking public access, literally breaking citizens' attempts at independent development. **"A Welcomed Change"** (bottom): The warden's complaint that he'd "rather" deal with a murderer of eight people who burned down an orphanage than "suffragettes" expresses anti-women's-suffrage sentiment through dark humor—indicating Judge's conservative opposition to women's voting rights.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
(e) © PRIVATION IN THE \S) AND WANT WERE W. LINES OF HIS FACE. JUDGE If you have resolved to live on fish in- stead of indulging in meat as heretofore, what is known as the Esquimau sole is an ex- cellent dish. It is made of an old shoe from which the uppers have been carefully re- moved, and is considered a great delicacy by the canine population of the far north. If you desire a nice, juicy roast that will not cost you a cent, write a play, and the critics will do the rest. If it is only appearances you are after, chopped-up shavings make a first-class breakfast food to the eye. A nice wet soup can be obtained by boil- ing a dog biscuit in water for four hours. A dozen two-dollar bills fresh from the government printing office make an excellent long-green salad that is comparatively cheap alongside of the ruling prices in food products. In cooking your money, if it so happens you have gone on a cash diet, care must be taken that it is not burned. An icicle boiled for two hours over a slow fire, with a little pep- per and salt added, makes an agree- RITTEN TIMELY NOTES ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. F YOU are fond of chops, a comparatively in- I expensive way to get them is to purchase a hatchet or, if you prefer, an axe, and you will find all the chops you want in the vicinity of the woodpile. A first-class stake can always be had of any dealer in garden supplies, It may prove rather tough eating, but if carefully stewed for several weeks its powers of resistance to the teeth will able consommé if by some chance you are not particularly hungry. WATER-POWER MONOPOLIES. ACK and Jill went up the hill, To build a dam of water. The Club came down and broke his crown, And other Grabs came after! HE shirking laborer is worthy be partially overcome. of his fire. na WARDENS iW i) FFICE A WELCOMED CHANGE, JUDGE'S FAVORITE. MARY MANNERING. IN “A MAN'S WORLD.” COMEDY THEATER. When Nature gave her gifts to you She must have hunted her treasures through To find so many of the kind Made from the purest gold refined THE BANK OF LOVE. by VANCE C. CRISS. EPOSITS—Bon bons, theater tickets, and honeyed words. Checks—Quarrels by which you lessen your account of pleasure. Personal Notes—Promises to “love, honor, cherish, and obey."” Security—Children, who make it more certain that the promissory notes will be paid. Loans—Sharing pleasures with another. Discount—Closing the matrimo- nial account through thedivorce court. Deputy—“ Oi si, Bill, don’tcha know thet I brought thet chep heah for murdering eight people and burning down an orphan asylum "* Warden—"' I don't care, Charlie. T ain't had nothing but suffragettes here for two months."” comicbooks.com