Judge, 1914-01-17 · page 14 of 24
Judge — January 17, 1914 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a six-panel comic strip satirizing economic hardship. The title promises irony: a burglar becomes a "specialist" not from criminal inclination but from desperation caused by the "High Cost of Living"—a real economic crisis affecting Americans in the early 20th century. The narrative follows a burglar who breaks into a home, finds valuables, but is ultimately captured and returned by authorities. The implicit critique is that poverty and inflation drive ordinary people to crime as survival mechanisms. Below are unrelated jokes about courtship, modesty, banking, and weather. The overall page combines visual humor (the comic strip) with brief gag commentary, typical of Judge magazine's satirical format mixing social criticism with domestic comedy.
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JUDGE’S MOTION PICTURES A Burglar Specialist: or, Driven to It by the High Cost of Living The Frost Flora—\ gave Jack the thirty-second Circumstantial Evidence Her Concession “T thought your daughter received me No doubt her dress, cut very low, rather stiffly.” Would seem to be just built for show. degree last night. “Ah! Then she did go to that tango Our modesty, she would not shock it, Dora—Are you a Mason? lesson yesterday.”” Bo round her neck she’ wears: locket: Flora—No; but that’s the freezing The new reserve banks will never be as__ point, isn’t it? Cold weather inspires many vows that popular with women as the old ‘First —— are dissolved by the heat. National.” Selfishness and self-love are synonyms. comicbooks.com