Judge, 1910-02-26 · page 5 of 16
Judge — February 26, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"Judge" (top right)**: A sketch of two men at a wayside wall, illustrating a dialogue between "Rudolf Rhoadsides" and "Walter Roadsidy" about roadside advertisements in daily papers. 2. **"Leaves from an Observer's Notebook"** (left): Commentary on Dr. Wiley's Congressional testimony about egg freshness, beef monopolies, and women joining police forces. The satire questions whether these reforms are practical or worth the effort. 3. **"The Palm Room"** (bottom left): A domestic cartoon showing a woman and child in what appears to be a flooded room—likely satirizing luxury amenities in homes. 4. **"Cheer Up! Remember, Lad"** (bottom right): An advertisement or cheerful reminder about fishing, with decorative sunflowers. The page's overall tone suggests turn-of-century Progressive Era skepticism toward reform efforts.
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JUDGE LEAVES FROM AN OBSERVER'S NOTEBOOK. UDGING from Dr. Wiley’s testimony before the Congressional Inquiry on Ome- lets Fresh and Otherwise, it is apparent that he does not think An egg is ever fresh and well Without the date blown in the shell. One fact seems to have been established by the doctor’s testimony beyond all peradventure, however, and that ie that the way to tell whether an egg is fresh or not is no longer to poach it, but to drop it. Talking about the high price of beef, why would it not be a good plan to wire the colonel down there in Africa, and get him to break the beef monopoly by sending a big cargo of rhinoceros steaks over here to be distributed at a merely nominal price for the benefit of the ultimate consumer? We do not know just how toothsome a rhinoceros steak would be, but, after all, nothing could be tougher than this diet of hickory nuts that some of us have been forced to adopt since the price of beef began to seek the laurels of the Wright brothers. ‘They are putting women on the police force in several com- munities of the United States, and the scheme seems to work well. A woman can really do much more effective work with a hatpin than most men can do with a club, and the fact that she is such a bad shot with a revolver is sure to result in a more widespread fear of the officers of the law in the whole com- munity than is generally felt in the presence of the average policeman. A poet of high distinction many years ago wrote a ballad propounding the interesting problem, “ Where Are the Ships of Tyre?’ We have thought over the question now for more than a decade without happening upon any definitely convincing solu- tion, but it has just occurred to us that there is a bare possi- THE PALM ROOM. advertisements in de A WAYSIDE WAIL. Restful Rhoadsides—'* Say, Walker, did ye ever work in yer life?”” Walker Roundley—'De nearest I ever come to it wuz readin’ de help wanted ily pape’s !"" bility they will be found in some one of the navies of the South American republics. The only trouble with this reported plan to make the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt speaker of the House of Representatives appears to be that ina knock-down on the floor of the lower house both the eyes and nose would’get it. If the scheme goes through, we may expect to see the triphammer substituted for the gavel, in which case the speaker's desk will probably be turned into an anvil. In any event such a development would only be in the line of modern progress in the substitution of a gatling gun for the old-fashioned cannon. READY FOR A BARGAIN. Pat (reading sign, ‘‘ Umbrellas 75¢. up. yez charge me for one of thim closed?” —** What will — here are lols of good ish that gel the hooks 1 comicbooks.com