Judge, 1911-03-18 · page 10 of 24
Judge — March 18, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("In Vaudeville"):** Three stock vaudeville character types are shown—a man with a telescope, a ragged tramp, and a refined gentleman—with the caption noting these recurring comedic personas "go on for ever." This satirizes vaudeville's reliance on tired, repetitive character archetypes and worn-out joke formulas that persist regardless of changing entertainment trends. **Main Story ("No Compromise"):** A legless railroad accident victim is warned by his lawyer never to settle with the company. However, the railroad's attorney uses reverse psychology, advising him that compromise is wisest—causing the legless man to become suspicious and demand full payment instead. The satire targets both ambulance-chasing lawyers and corporate attorneys who manipulate injured workers, while mocking how easily the victim is manipulated by transparent rhetoric, despite his initial instructions. The page also includes humorous short pieces about automobile naming and romantic irony.
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1, “ Say, Charlie! what you tryin’ to play?” 1M WAWEEWILLE 2. Laughs like a goat, and says, Wa al, I'll be gol derned."” 3. ‘* When I married my wife, honest, I was afraid to look at her. Oh, that face !—Say, you ought to see my wife eat,’ etc., etc. STARS MAY COME AND STARS MAY GO, BUT THESE GO ON FOR EVER. NO COMPROMISE. E HAD never been considered a fellow of very much account, but when he lost his legs in a railroad ac- cident his market value rose atonce. It is a mighty poor man whose pair of legs are not worth several thousand dollars be- fore a sympathetic jury, with a soulless corporation as defend- ant. Accordingly he was visited by a sharp lawyer, who volunteered to take his c: and win him big damages (for a consid- eration), but warned him strenuously By EDMUND VANCE COOKE. against compromising. ‘‘The company will be sure to send its lawyer to you and ask you to compromise, but don’t you do it. Just you stick to me and don’t compromise, and I'll get a good thing out of it for you, as you deserve. I won't just say how much, but it will be something good."’ The legless man promised faithfully and the lawyer departed, when along came the railroad’s attorney, according to prophecy. ‘Now, my friend,’? he said suavely, ‘‘the company regrets this affair more than I can tell you. They are very anxious to provide for you and to alleviate your sufferings, and they have sent me here to see of what service I can be. Of course you'll feel easier in your mind if you know you're sure of rans compensation and how much, which the company will be very glad to arrange with you. Don’t let any one persuade you to sue the company, for there’s no sense in letting some cheap lawyer get all your compensation.”” “That's so, that’s so!’’ said the leg- less man. **Nouse in him havin’ a cent of it.”” “Of course not,"’ said the attorney. “You always get more out of a case like this by effecting a fair compromis: “Compromise !"’ ejaculated the legless man, stirred into suspicion at the word. “Compromise!” he shouted again. “Compromise nothin’! You fellows got to pay me full two hundred dollars or I'll sue you till I bust your road!"" Apt Name. SOVES, we've named our auto,” says the lady with the coral eardrops. “*How delightful! It is quite the fad now to call your machine something,"’ says the one with the hairless dog. “*What do you call yours?"’ “My husband named ‘Tax,’ because, he says, so many people dodge i He calls it The Woman of It. HE DID not love him, but she knew Another wished to bear his name. O’er him, therefore, a spell she threw, And proudly took’ him, just the same. comicbooks.com