Judge, 1916-06-24 · page 9 of 29
Judge — June 24, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon satirizes WWI-era labor conditions. A man (representing management) watches anthropomorphized calves dancing while holding a sign ordering employees not to laugh during exercise. The joke: management makes workers perform pointless physical exertion ("exercising the calves"—a pun on livestock and leg muscles) under strict supervision, treating them like animals. Below, domestic comedy contrasts a husband angry about his wife spending money on Shakespeare tercentenary performances with her defense that cultural patronage brings social status. The satire mocks both upper-class pretension and working-class penny-pinching during wartime. A separate item jokes that economists will blame the war for fabric shortages causing shorter women's skirts—a sardonic commentary on wartime economic scarcity and how authorities attribute all problems to the conflict. The bottom cartoon shows an absentminded boat owner failing to navigate despite strong tides—presumably commentary on incompetent leadership.
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EMPLOYEES MusT NOT LAUCH AT THE STOCK WHILE THEY ARE EXERCISING THE GENTLEMAN FARMER SERIES Dancing is good for exercising the calves when it is stormy out of doors y for two tickets to Mrs. DeRemer’s performance of any of Shakespeare's plays, To Whom It May Concern open-air performance of ‘As You Like It,’ but it~ is the proper thing to sup- TD IT ever occur to you when you think and I'm pledged to buy two more tickets a port those affairs, and I may, get in on Of the people who do not survive Our earthly conditions, that there’s a whole lot the same price when ‘A Midsummer Night's the list of patronesses. I never sneaked conditions, | Of danger in being alive? Dream’ is given next month,” off and spent all day reading him when “Great heavens, woman!” declaimed the I was a child, but if Bill akespeare Just being alive and living along colonel in a voice charged with emotion. can help me get a-step higher in society, In a manner that seems to be fit, “Here I have been walking down town for I'm going to be for him on this or any When all of a sudden it happens, and then, three months to save carfare, and you go other tercentenary he has.” You never know why, but you quit. and blow more for one fool society perform- Pechaie fits all siehtos ; ance than all my well-meant economy He Had Been Married Some Time Peqnsps i's ail right at Ieast, you are taught amounts to. What encouragement is there Always let well cnough alone.” If you had the job of constructing mankind, for saving in this world when a woman will 's that?’ Do you think you would do it that way? take ten dollars and blow it on two Shakes- Ss used to marry me at first, then W. J. Lampton. pearean performances just as if her husband — I asked her again.” had been running a munitions plant since Lazytown Local Note the war broke out?” Waiting Fletcher Henstep predicts a heavy plague “But this is the Shakespearean ter- We are waiting with poised bludgeon for — of grasshoppers this season, and as a pre- centenary, as you just told me,” said Mrs. some callow economist to tell us that the caution Yam Sims is going to be very Beanfugle. “I'll admit I'd rather see a war is responsible for the shortage in careful how and when he wears his green moving picture show than an open-air women’s skirts. necktie. —George Bingham. Absenteminded owner—Awful strong tide running this morning! Don't make any headway at all! comicbooks.com