Judge, 1911-01-14 · page 9 of 24
Judge — January 14, 1911 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** "Putting the Angel on a Scientific Basis" satirizes modern efficiency and rationalization. An angel—traditionally a spiritual, ethereal being—is depicted as an industrial/mechanical contraption with propellers, megaphones, and technical apparatus. The joke is that even celestial figures are being subjected to contemporary mania for "scientific" modernization and mechanization, reducing something sacred to industrial components. **"The Dinner Season":** Ellis O. Jones's poem mocks the tedium of formal dinner season—the repetitive nature of identical events with identical attendees, speeches, and tired socializing. It captures the era's social obligation fatigue. **Bottom Comics:** Two brief gags—one about charitable collection (children unknowingly donating coins their mother gave them), and another about workers flipping a coin to determine who climbs for gasoline, suggesting dangerous or undesirable labor assignments. The page overall reflects early 20th-century satirical humor about social conventions, modern anxieties, and working-class life.
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Dominie—"* What a lot of peni bank! Freddie—‘‘No, sir. putin THE LATEST REVISED VERSION—PUTTING THE ANGEL ON A SCIENTIFIC BASIS. The Dinner Season. By ELLIS 0. JONES. OW THE season Has arriven When the annual Feasts are given. Same old dinners, Stale and flat; Same old dabs Of this and that. Same old liquors, Dulling sense: Same old stupid Audiences. Same old speeches, Same old stories, Same spread-eagle Oratories. Same old subject, Same toastmasters, Interspersed with Poetasters. Same old high-brows, Same old jokers, Same old crowd of Mediocres. Same old languid Never-minders, Same old busy Axe-to-grinders. Same old ennui, Never ending; Same old midnight Homeward wending. What Did Mamma Do? Were they given you to bi the collection basket.” candy ?"" Those are the ones ma gave me to s you have in your little 66 ETTEM “Ah! “No; he is employed by a collecting agency.”’ Interested in Settlements. in settlement work.’’ is interested Philanthropist, I suppose.’’ A TOSS UP. “Come on, Bill, let's flip the coin to see who climbs for the gasoline."” comicbooks.com