Judge, 1913-11-08 · page 16 of 26
Judge — November 8, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents a grid of silent film-style motion picture stills (appearing to feature a character named Reggie Jinks) accompanying three separate joke strips at the bottom. The jokes satirize contemporary social issues: 1. **"Some Travel Far"**: Mocks a man jealous his brother reached Congress despite being small and ineffectual, while he can't even improve his car's fuel efficiency—suggesting political incompetence compared to personal failure. 2. **"Good Reason"**: A cynical joke about a woman who's divorced multiple times, implying her ex-husbands become financially ruined, leaving nothing to sue for in alimony claims. 3. **"Expert Opinion"**: A divorce lawyer equates marriage to a "try, try again" experiment—dark humor about serial marriage failures and the legal profession profiting from divorce. The overall theme ("showing there is nothing like specializing after all") suggests these vignettes humorously demonstrate people becoming "specialized" in particular failures: political ineptness, extracting wealth through marriage, and legal manipulation.
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JUDGE’S MOTION PICTURES Getting an Education: Showing that there is nothing like specializing after all Some Travel Far «eWHAT makes Blinks so jealous of his brother?”” “*Well, he says Tom, who's only a gas- bag, and pint-size at that, got to Con- gress, while he can’t get more than six miles to the gallon out of his car on the road to anywhere.’’ Good Reason “‘Why have you never sued any of your divorced husbands for alimony?"’ “By the time I’m ready to leave a man, he’s always bankrupt.”” What a lucky thing the inventor of sleep did not reserve all rights. > Expert Opinion ‘ «JS MARRIAGE a failure?" asked the inquisitive bachelor. “Oh, no,”’ replied the experienced di- vorce lawyer. ‘‘It is merely an oppor- tunity to follow that good old rule, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try again.’ ’” comicbooks.com