Judge — November 29, 1913 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This cartoon adapts Shakespeare's famous "seven ages of man" concept but replaces the traditional life stages with satirical versions based on money and social status: - **CRIB-AGE**: Infancy (mother with baby) - **ADD-AGE**: Childhood (boy reading) - **BREAK-AGE**: Youth (boy with dog, breaking things) - **CALVE-AGE**: Young adulthood (couple courting) - **SHORT-AGE**: Middle age (two men in formal dress—possibly depicting financial shortage or scarcity) - **MAN-AGE**: Mature adulthood (man with wife and infant) - **COIN-AGE**: Old age (elderly couple by Christmas tree, surrounded by wealth) The joke appears to be a pun-laden commentary on how life progresses from helplessness through various stages ultimately toward accumulating money and property. The wordplay on "age" suggests that financial status—not wisdom or virtue—defines life's chapters in American society.