Judge, 1911-02-04 · page 15 of 24
Judge — February 4, 1911 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Upper Section:** "Mrs. Doolittle's Easy Chair for the New Minister" is a humorous domestic story. Mr. Doolittle dismisses his wife's carpentry skills and her plan to build a homemade barrel chair as a gift for their new minister, considering it a waste of money. Mrs. Doolittle believes everyone has special "gifts"—hers being carpentry—and points to previous successful projects as proof. **Lower Left:** A "Don Quixote Up-to-Date" comic strip modernizes Cervantes' classic, with Don Quixote and Sancho Panza encountering an island that mysteriously floods and disappears, thwarting their plans. **Lower Right:** A satirical joke about a mental asylum visitor meeting a patient who claims to be Theodore Roosevelt. The punchline: the visitor himself also believes he is Roosevelt, suggesting both are delusional—likely mocking Roosevelt's outsized personality or political prominence during this era.
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OW what's goin’ on ?"’ asked Mr. Doolittle, jerking his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the wood- shed loft, from which came sounds of plane and ham- mer and saw. “She’s making an easy chair for the new minis- ter,’’ answered Elvira, witha grin, from the kitch- en doorway. ‘‘She read about one that could be made out of a barrel that would look better than achair you can buy for ten liars. The only objection that can be urged against it is it’s so comfortable that one wants to sit in it all the time. The minister's coming to tea Friday, and she’s going to surprise him with it.”” “Oh, fiddle !"? was the terse term by which Mr. Doolittle expressed his opin- ion of his better half’s undertaking. “If she wants to do him a kindness, why don’t she give him the money she'll waste Mrs. Doolittle’s Easy Chair for the New Minister. By EBEN B. REXFORD. = ——— 1. “At last, friend Sancho, you shall be re- warded for’ your faithful ‘services. Yonder is the island I have promised you, and you shall be lord of that castle. (* wiaNo sy J UNoeR WATER 4. —— A murrain on me! Some evil spirit has again frustrated me and inundated your beautiful island ! —— on an old contogglement that won't be worth shucks?”’ Mrs. Doolittle was a wom- man who believed that every person is born with some special ‘*gift.”” “Some women I know have a gift for cooking,’ she would declare. ‘* Some can’t cook worth a cent, but they can keep house. Some can’t do either, but they'll beat the world in fancy work. Now, if there’s one thing I was cut out for, it’s carpenter work. My gift is being handy with tools.’” To this statement her hus- band sometimes responded with a grin and sometimes with a grunt, both signify- ing a very poor opinion of the constructive ability on wife prided herself. DON T JF You &t oT) j At such times she would point to the box lounge in the sit- QUIXOTE UP-TO-DATE. qi ae GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE. Visitor at lunatic asylum (during discussion with chatty lit tle man he has met in the grounds)—'' Now what particular form of madness does that poor fellow suffer from ?"’ Little man—‘ Oh, be imagines himself to be Roosevelt."* Visitor—'' How absurd !"" Little man—" Yes, isn't it—because everybody knows I'm Roosevelt."* which his ting-room and the shirt-waist boxes in the girls’ room as conclusive proof of her skill with hammer and saw. WAT ree will. —— “5. —— d's pancakes! The water Let us climb into the castle or we sball soon be en- is still rising! gulfed ! — 2. —— By lawful right of arms I take un- disputed possession, and henceforth you shall be sole ruler, to do with it as you —eAN 3. —— And that you may not be wanting in honor, I create you Knight of the Chicken Gib- lettes and King Sancho the First. May your rule be long and prosperous. — 6, — Ab, friend Sancho, evil fortune doth still parsve us! Could I but get my lunch hooks on that crusty-faced wicked genie I would show you the power of my stupendous valor !"" comicbooks.com