Judge, 1911-09-16 · page 5 of 28
Judge — September 16, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**"Smoke Rings"** (top cartoon): Five men exhale elaborate smoke rings, illustrating different social attitudes toward cigar smoking. The accompanying text discusses how cigars signify different things to different people—luxury for the wealthy, everyday pleasure for working men, and philosophical indulgence for pipe smokers. **"The Innocent Sufferer"** (main illustration): Shows a crowded street scene with a dog in the center, captioned "I wonder what all this fuss is about?" The image satirizes urban chaos and confusion, with the innocent dog representing bewilderment amid busy city life. The remaining text includes various brief humorous observations ("Borings," "Judge," "Lest We Forget") offering social commentary on everyday behaviors and human nature.
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ee. SMOKE RINGS. Over the Ashtray. U Lest We Forget. ‘T DOESN'T take many cigars for the od DCE OETS may sing the delights of a ave 's income to go up in smoke i yerage MARS income so. Bo'UP In odes that are pleasing and true, ! smoke. . | ___Longears, Peterson Peabody, Lord Wim- But the average man, in the average } What father does is often included in bleby, Lady Wimbleby, Miss Constance wav, i the after-effects of the first smoke. Harringdale, etc., etc., ete. Finds the pleasure of life in a chew. You can’t smoke Havana cigars on a stogy income. Gift cigars are not always the kind | the donor smokes. | There is pleasure } in a cigarette, con- | tentment ina cigar, and philosophy in a cob pipe. A wife's hardest task is to convince her husband that everything isn’t an ashtray. To many a man life’s a loaded cigar —a momentary flash and then use- Jess. — Vance C. Cris. Borings. A SHORT pocket maketh a short temper. i} Some gossip is too good to be true. } A man is not nec- q essarily a philan- derer who spends i his time seeking rare jades. The trouble with platonic love is that | there is more play about it than tonic. Be cautious in trying to castigate anenemy Sy mail. Just ti’: “he stamp j andle ¢ 7 at that. An v.. yicverh An oe tellx us that a govc! a surgeon must have ' NEW ENG- an eagie’s eye, a LAND paper the other day pub- lished the following interesting para- graph: The Pink Star Line steamship Bu- bonic sailed yester- day afternoon, with the largest cargo of cattle and hogs that has ever yet gone out of Boston har- bor, among whom lion’. heart, and u i lady: nand. Still, | if he lacks these he can generally make both ends mee? wna millionaire’s leg and his own bill. HERE was a young poet called Poe, Who wrote many things we ail were Mr. and Mrs. know; F. Barnegat Jones, We now hear Master Barnegat his name Jones, W. W. Bat- In the great terston, Jemmison Hall of Fame, H. Harkaway, Mr. Where the Raven and Mrs. Slythers THE INNOCENT SUFFERER. will sit up and Smythe, Edwin A. Dog—** I wonder what all this fuss is about ?"” Crow. comicbooks.com