Judge, 1911-07-15 · page 15 of 24
Judge — July 15, 1911 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes automotive humor with rural satire and a political jab at women's organizations. **Top section:** Nine whimsical car designs satirize emerging automobile variety—from practical utility vehicles (dump truck, fuel carrier) to absurd concepts (a three-story auto-bus, a "slant car"). The caption "THE LATEST WORD IN AUTOS" suggests manufacturers were producing increasingly bizarre vehicles to capitalize on automobile mania. **Middle section:** "Proverbs of a Young Country Gentleman" mocks wealthy urbanites attempting rural life—they fail at farming basics and misunderstand agricultural work, relying instead on hired labor. **Bottom cartoon:** A rooster and hen represent the "Revolutionary Daughters," a women's patriotic organization. The joke ridicules their pretensions: they claim descent from geese that provided quill pens for the Declaration of Independence—an absurd genealogical claim. The rooster's dismissal ("some sort of club") suggests Judge found their patriotic posturing laughable and overstated. This appears to mock upper-class women's organizations of the era.
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CAN BE LEFT ANY WHERE ALWAYS SAFE Tue SLANT CAR THREE STORY Auto Russ THE LATEST WORD IN AUTOS. Proverbs of a Young Country Gentleman. HERE there's a will to return to the land, there is a way to land. When some people go back to the farm, they go there for the first time. Most any cow can tell the difference between a farmer and the man who is trying to be one. The country gentleman and his chick- Rooster—“ WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT? Hen—" THEY CALL THEMSELVES ‘REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTERS.’ ens cannot well scratch for a living in the same garden. The strongest point about the garden is the onion bed, and the weakest is that part which is easily beet. Most country gentlemen eat their bread by the sweat of some other man's IT LOOKS LIKE 80ME SORT OP CLUB.” There is a big difference between what a country gentleman’s. city friends say about him and what his country neigh- bors think about him. Quotation. OSTAGE-STAMP market, Gov. 2s preferred. steady. THEY CLAIM TO BE DESCENDED FROM THE GEESE WHO FURNISHED THE QUILL PENS WITH WHICH THE DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGNED.” comicbooks.com