Judge, 1916-11-25 · page 4 of 32
Judge — November 25, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon illustrates "Thanksgiving Thoughts," depicting two figures—appearing to be Native Americans and Pilgrims—over a fish, referencing the historical Thanksgiving narrative. The satire critiques gratitude: the text argues that while Elder Brewster and the Pilgrim Fathers had reason to be thankful (having less), modern Americans with far more possess less gratitude. The piece mocks this irony, noting Benjamin Franklin never invented things from gratitude—only necessity. The right column contains social commentary on topics including French royalist pretensions, Harvard's social elite, and various moral observations presented as brief witticisms. The page functions primarily as editorial commentary rather than comic strips, using humor to critique American social attitudes and contemporary society.
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Thanksgiving Thoughts tlder Brewster, old Governor Bradford, and the Pilgrim Fathers the nation owes a little appreciated debt of grat- itude for originating the Thanks- giving foot- ball game. True, the Elder and theGovernor and the Pil grims never saw the oblate spheroid, nor shared the goal from the field. What ¢ ither did Benjamin anklin the line is busy" or “Do you still want Bedford Naughty Naughty ught No, Benjamin Franklin never met Central; yet in spite of that fact—surcly not because of it—he went right ahead and invented electricity and to him we owe the boon of the countless kilowatts and short circuits and amperes we pay for In like fashion Elder Brewster and Governor Bradford invented Thanks- giving football. Not the least merit of our forebears is that they never were deterred from inventing things because they did not know what they were inventing. Had they been, would the Father of His Country ha invented the cherry tree—with the inviting but insidious cocktail appended thereto? We are wont to think of the Pilgrim Fathers as sitting over their frugal meal joys of that? ever hear with an Indian behind them, tomahawk in hand—and bowing the head as they said: “For what we are about to receive, Lord, make us truly thankful.” Un- doubtedly it is true that they were more thankful than we. That is because they had so much less to be thankful for. The man who has much to be thankful for has mighty little time to be thankful. He has to put in, say, cighteen hours a day worrying for fear he won't have so much to be thankful for next day. He hasn't time even to be thankful that Congress has adjourned, before he has to get busy worrying about its reconvening. There is a whole lot of philosophy in these few suggestions—but we must leave them to the uplifters and hurry on to get to press. Thanksgiving yields a maximum of contentment not only to football en- thusiasts but to those interested in raising the price of turkey meat. On the other hand it causes only a minimum of dis- comfort to church janitors, for but few disturb their hymnals, their psalters, or their pews. Still, there are those—would their name were Legion!—who on that historic day emulate the prayer of the pious old lady: ‘Lord, let me do whatsoever Thou biddest' me. pro- vided it is honorable!” Closely Related “Some people are so tight that if you ask them to sing ‘Old Hundred,’ they will sing ‘Ninety and Nine’ and save one per cent.”"— Billy Sunday. Twin cousins—on both sides+to the man who sang “The Consecrated Cross I'd Bear. Sixes and Sevens HE re of F his marriage DivineRight did it’ with the ax—not the alimony. cd ‘The son of President Hadley, of Yale, has entered the Harvard law school. Like the restaurant keeper who went out to get something to eat 2 ‘The wages of sin is death. scale for overtime. alist. pretender to the throne ance has brought suit to annul In the good old days No sliding An Englishman has invented a non-slippa- ble egg-cup for use of one-armed. people. War never created a necessity that science didn’t meet. Detroit Free Press. One-armed men don’t cat eggs. Both arms are needed to dig for the price. 2 \ French lady recently married because the bridegroom's taste and hers were similar. “LT don’t care very much for him and he doesn't care very much for me," she ex plained.—Boston Transcript. How can a true woman take the ali- mony from a man she doesn’t care for? ‘The man who has never married can con sole himself with the thought that peace hath her victories.—- Philadel phia Record. ace with inexperience ace with alimony? An ignoble 1 what's that to pr comicbooks.com