Judge, 1910-06-04 · page 5 of 16
Judge — June 4, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page combines humor columns with satirical cartoons. The main cartoon shows two figures in what appears to be a domestic scene, captioned "DON'T SPEAK TO HIM ELSIE. HE DON'T BELIEVE IN WOMAN'S RIGHTS." The satire targets anti-suffrage attitudes—mocking men who oppose women's voting rights by depicting a man so committed to the position that he won't even speak to someone who disagrees. The humor lies in the absurdity of his rigid stance affecting his own household. The page also includes period anecdotes ("Notes from the Basswood Bugle," "Chanticleer Talk") poking fun at rural life and politics, plus an illustration labeled "A Solid Steel Building" promoting modern architecture. The overall content reflects early 20th-century debates over women's suffrage and modernization.
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ALPHABET FOR BASE- VIEWPOINTS. BALL FANS. Flykyns—""1 see the New York police have put a stop to the play, ‘The Girl with the Whooping Cough.’ "* Slytyns—“Judging from her posters, she was lucky not to have pneumonia. BARGAIN RATES. Howell—* Does your wife care anything about baseball ?”” Poiwell—* She never did until one day when she heard me s FRED CLARKE, OF THE that the’ were going to play PITTSBURGH NATIONALS. two games for one admission."’ Cc is for Clarke of the = ~ Who keows Paseball Country farmer —*1 always He's Feconed a mighty fine cap- get my hens in the spring."” che varatcrackajnc. — Cityfarmer—"Indeed? Why, iene, my poultry book says emphat- Aner battiog he sare shows's ically toset ‘em in adry place.”* wows HOOTS FROM A WISE OWL. THE COMMUTERS OF TO-MORROW. NOTES FROM THE BASSWOOD #UGLE. LTHOUGH a gradu- ate earns his sheep- skin, he pays ten dollars fy ROY Kk. MOULTON. HE last time Salathial : Bibbins called on he to get it. Miss Pansy Brown, old 4 Suffragists believe that man Brown throwed the world owes every man something at him that a living and every woman was large and round and a vote. hard. Squire Peebles says In the school of experi- it must have been a jar- ence everybody pays his dinier, and Salathial says own tuition, and nobody that sounds as though it ever graduates. might be it, as it jarred In school we learn the him in the ear, all right. rule of three ; in court- Old Grandpa Stebbins ship the rule of two; in says he used to have a marriage the rule of one. good many warm friends, They are called divorce and if they all went where suits because nothing but he thinks they did, they a divorce seems to suit. are atill warm. “DON'T SPEAK TO HIM ELSIE. HE DON'T BELIEVE IN The insurgent that Ame Hanks went to WOMAN'S. RIGHTS.” rocks the Ship of State work at his usual occupa- is apt to be ruled out of tion, which is that of firin’ the biler at the stave mill, and forgot to take off his the world of politics. celluloid collar that he had wore to church the day before. Funeral Wednesday —_—This is a fast age, with a few slow-downs at two p.m. Please omit flowers. and many wrecks. Elihu Wiggins says it is blamed funny that, although Congress keeps addin’ new States, the map don’t seem toget any bigger or any dif- ferent shape than it always has been. Ezra Whipple broke his neck last week while tryin’ to rehearse an act that was goin’ to be a headliner in voodville, which is another serious blow to the uplift of the drammer. Samson wasn't much ac- count after he lost his hair, which shows the difference between Samson and Secre- tary Knox. Grandma Firkins has CHANTECLER TALK. planted some bird seed _ "Did you hear how the suffragette meeting came off last’ this spring. Must be she night?”” expects to raise a flock of “* Oh, everything was lovely until the chairman called the ; Pekin duck a pigeon-toed catbird."* canaries. A SOLID STEAL BUILDING. comicbooks.com