Judge, 1916-06-17 · page 25 of 28
Judge — June 17, 1916 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The text stories mock: 1. **"Draft Clerk"** — A boy claims advancement by merely opening/closing windows, satirizing meaningless job titles and false prestige. 2. **"Met His Match"** — A miserly patient outsmarts a doctor by paying only $2 for repeat visits, playing on the doctor's greed against his own stinginess. 3. **"A Legal Mind"** — A Black man cites the legal principle of double jeopardy to argue he shouldn't face charges for the same crime twice. The humor relies on racist stereotyping ("darky," dialect) while ironically crediting him with knowing constitutional law. The advertisements include Egyptian cigarettes, correspondence school cartooning courses, and weight-loss guides. The "Avoid This Ad!" section humorously warns readers not to fall for correspondence school scams. This reflects early 20th-century American humor conventions: working-class cleverness, professional incompetence, and deeply offensive racial humor presented as lighthearted.
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street one morning and said, “Well, Louis, how are you getting on in business? I spose the first thing we know you will be sident of the bank?” Yes, uncle,” replied the boy, “I’m getting along fine. I'm draft clerk al- rea dy.” “What!” exclaimed the uncle. “Draft clerk? Why, that’s very surprising, but very good.” “Yes, uncle,” replied the lad, “I open and shut the windows according to order, and close ithe doors when people leave them open!” —Youth's Companion. Met His Match—A tight-fisted old man, feeling very ; asked a friend to recom- mend’a physician. ‘The friend named a “Is he very expensive?” asked the sick man, ; “Well, not so very. He'll charge you $4 for the first visit and $2 for each one after that.” The oid fellow soon afterward walked into the office of the physician named by his friend, and, upon being admitted to the sulting-room, planked down $2, remark- in “Well. Doctor, here I am again.” The physician calmly picked up the money and put it in a drawer, which he locked The sick man looked on expect- iting the next move. - |, I'm ready to be examined,” he = _ said at length, ary,” replied the e AVOID THIS AD! [ don’t think it’s sno need todo | alist. “Ther ; » right on taking the same Ty o's ees Good “day, sir."—IWashington caus ean fo tall formation. ZIM’S Corres- pondence School of Cartooning, Comic Art. A Legal Mind—There was recently abd ‘Civicatore: Box Re Horseheads N.Y. pares brought before a police magistrate in the — | te Deny tence University, Dest. 7A, Chicago, TL South an old darky who had fallen foul of Offers YOU : Success Peau tlO, io,t08 yearly, Opportunities Open fa bosincaa as well aa poli [trained men earned $3, sera torre ee ea rman * 3 Look and Wear a bulldog while in the act of entering the Vatcey GEMS ik 5 ‘8 Diamonds hen-house of the dog’s owner. 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Par . rey HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS gang fo" tryin’ to steal some chickens, didn’t | WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME] PAPER WARE HOUSE simple thing to patent? Protect your ideas, they may bring you Nos. 32, 34 and 36 Bleecker Street “Yes; that was the charge.” wealth. Write for “Needed Inventions” and “flow to Get Your ‘Branch Warehouses: OAD dont at ani Patent and Your Moory.”” Randolph & Co, Patent Attorn 20 Beekman Street, New Vork, and 32 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J. An’ don’t de law say yo can’t be charged Dept. 129, Washingtoa, D.C. * iad ALL 8 OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER twice with de same offense?” “That no man shall be twice placed in jeopardy for the identical act, yes.” : There Are No “Hymns of Hate” in “Den, yo’ honah, youse gotta let me go, toms | 5 A DICKENS EVERYBODY'S suh. I was after de same chickens, suh.”— . 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