Judge, 1913-04-26 · page 5 of 24
Judge — April 26, 1913 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon titled "Logical Sequence" depicts a social encounter where a well-dressed man asks a shabby beggar, "I say, uncle, why don't you get a set of false teeth?" The beggar replies, "Well, boys, if I did, where'd I get the grub to exercise 'em with?" This satirizes the paradox of poverty: the beggar lacks not just teeth but food itself, making dental care absurdly irrelevant to his survival. The joke targets the naive advice often given to poor people—assuming false teeth would improve their circumstances when basic sustenance remains inaccessible. The surrounding stories and smaller cartoons ("The Last Stand," "A Sudden Cure," "Trying to Dodge") appear to be unrelated satirical pieces on other social topics typical of Judge's humor.
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LOGICAL SEQUENCE “I say, uncle, why don’t you get a set of false teeth?” “Well, boys, if | did, where ‘d I git the grub to exercise “em with 2” the populace stared, for his style was by no means that of the commoner. The smile that this news causes is to some degree a sympathetic one —so many share this prejudice against what the scornful rabble de- scribes as ‘‘plugs.'’’ Putting one’s self in the = other man’s place, one = wonders whether toshiver or grin—or both!—when one tries to im- agine how it must feel to have to ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in a low- necked hack, helpless in a lofty tile, before whole batteries of newspaper cam- eras. The mood of such an occasion can only be measured by the doleful old Puritan hymn: I know that Gon is wroth with me, For I was born in sin: My heart is soexceeding vile, Damnation dwells therein, Awake I sin, asleep I sin, Tain with every breath ; ‘When ADAM fell he went to heli ‘And damned us all to death. A Sudden Cure By TERRELL LOVE HOLLIDAY “Did you notice how sadly that beggar A®, WELL, ‘tis only one more shock, limped when he came in?’’ To learn Ararat’s not the dock “Yes, I noticed, also, how briskly he At which Pa Noah tied his ark walked out after you had given him the And landed from his houseboat lark. quarter.”” The Last Stand We first were told, eons ago, That it was not, could not be so— That wondrous and e’er thrilling tale Of Jonah swallowed by the whale. TRYING TO DODGE “Well, ma, I'm ready for the party. Shall I wash my hands or put on The miracles we've heard explained my gloves? As feats of men in science trained; And one by one the props have gone, Till we have none to lean upon. But one thing's true, we'll e’er maintain, With all our mental might and main— The tale of Adam led astray By Eve. She's at it still to-day. Real and Imitation Mag—The lady that just bought those pins of you is one of our greatest swells. Mame—Are you sure? Her hair and clothes didn’t look a bit like ours. comicbooks.com