Judge, 1915-08-28 · page 5 of 28
Judge — August 28, 1915 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon "Sabbath Morn" depicts a woman (likely representing proper Victorian society) encountering children playing near a river on Sunday, apparently distressed that they're engaged in secular recreation rather than religious observance. The caption references a child's near-blasphemous comment. The surrounding text items are brief humorous anecdotes rather than political commentary: - "Her Helpfulness" mocks an aunt's social climbing through railroad networking - "Evident" jokes about fashion terminology - "Modern Spirit" satirizes a film producer's excessive use of elephants in production - "Proof Positive" contains a stock-market joke - "Some Consolation" offers dark humor about comparative misery The page reflects turn-of-the-century American humor focused on social customs, upper-class pretension, and everyday absurdities rather than partisan politics.
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eVRSR BReetered Sek a SABBATH MORN Tommy—Durn it! Sometimes | come pretty near wishin’ | wuz a Natheist! Her Helpfulness yF MY Aunt Fretty Flaws had to wait a sufficient length of time at a crossroads railway station where she had never been before,’ telated P. G. Pester, ‘‘she would hunt up most of the inhabitants within a radius of two miles around and get acquainted with them, so that she might do them the blessed favor of pointing out their duties and shortcomings and direct them toward a nobler life. “Her funeral was the largest ever held in the region where she had lived. People came for many miles to see for themselves that she absolutely was dead."* Evident “What is style?"’ “Style is the manner in which clothes are not worn."* PROOF POSITIVE Judkins—Yes, that broker is one of the best friends I have. Budkins—How do you know ? Judbins—He has never attempted to give me a tip on the stock market Modern Spirit Friend—So you produced a film of Hannibal. Wonderful man, wasn’t he, getting that thousand elephants over the Alps in a week? Moving-picture producer—Yes. It is a good picture, but®we had to fire our stage director. Friend—What was the matter? Moving-picture producer—Too slow. We used five thousand ele- phants, and it took him almost an hour to get them over the Alps. Some Consolation “After all, your biting sar- casm does not bring you true hap- piness.’’ “‘No,’’ confessed evil-minded J. Fuller Gloom; ‘‘but it enables me to worry the other fellow so much that I feel tolerably comfortable by comparison.’’ comicbooks.com