Judge, 1912-05-25 · page 5 of 24
Judge — May 25, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct editorial items satirizing contemporary American life. **"A Moving Spectacle"** mocks the massive migration into Chicago during early May, suggesting the city experienced an unprecedented housing shortage. The piece humorously proposes a "satisfactory house on wheels" as a solution, satirizing both Chicago's overcrowding and the absurdity of mobile furniture. **"Sightless Theater Seats"** reports on a Boston court case where a man received refunds for theater seats with obstructed views. The satire questions whether this justice is fair, since the man still benefited from attending despite not seeing the performance. **"Dog on It!"** is a cartoon caption accompanying an image of a dog sitting in what appears to be a "Presidential Booth"—likely satirizing a political figure or presidential candidate through animal association, though the specific reference is unclear from context alone.
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teulecs A Moving Spectacle. VAN and truck owners of Chicago re- port that more people moved in Chicago this year than on any preceding first of May. They estimate that up- ward of one-third of a million people changed their homes at that time. If one could only have a bird's-eye view of such a spectacle, it would probably re- semble an enormous game of puss-in-the- corner. We suggest that some Chicago real-estate man will make a fortune who invents a satisfactory house on wheels, so that this yearning for a change of location may be satisfied without so much injury to the furniture. Or per- haps Chicago people might start the cus- tom of a uniform furniture equipment for all houses. Then a family might move without its furniture, merely taking possession of the set that belonged to the next dwelling place. There are so many ways to save waste and worry if only peo- ple were not so much the slaves of custom! Afterall, why don’t Chicagoans live in their moving vans? Sightless Theater Seats. A court in Boston has com- pelled the refunding to aman of the price he paid for a theater seat from which he could not see anything. It will be conceded that this is justice and that the man was entitled to the refund and also to exemplary damages. But, besides indemnity for the past, the court might have exacted something for the future. The seat was not ordered removed. Probably it will be sold over and over again to other men, who will suffer and be silent. In such matters few men care to fight for their rights. Why should a seat like the one that has been mentioned be placed in a theater, and why should it be permitted to remain? Fifteen hundred men ran in New York City the other Saturday. The average citizen, glancing over the head- lines in his morning paper at that time, found it necessary to read on down the column to discover whether it was really a Marathon race or merely a presidential As a mattter of fact, nowa- doing it. Doing primary. days, everybody's what? Running. “DOG ON IT!" 5 Celestial Headgear. China is making another radical change. Having cut off his pigtail, John Chinaman has taken to wearing silk hats. This change in head garb ought to be for the good of the Occidental trade. All factories and merchants with antique styles on hand can rush them over to China and find a market for them. The heathen Chinee has certainly not yet been posted on our fashions. This is the first opportunity that has ever been offered to get ahead of him in trade. Foreign Methods. In spite of the present-day, world- wide interchange of ideas, national cus- toms still differ widely. When our American police locate a thief in a building, it is their idea to drive him out as soon as pos- sible and chase him down the street, shooting at him as theyrun and bagging nowand then an innocent bystander. In England and France they drive him into a house as soon as they can. Then they summon all the police, the militia, the navy, the ma- rines and nine-tenths of the populace and surround the place. Moving-picture men, fire engines, military bands and other spectacular acces- sories are provided, and the Bas house is then burned or dyna- mited, The European method is really the better one, and our policeshould take the hint to heart. There’s nothing like combining pleasure with business. comicbooks.com