Judge, 1917-06-30 · page 24 of 29
Judge — June 30, 1917 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon depicts a landlady confronting a laundry service about a tablecloth damaged during washing. The laundryman's response—that he'll only charge for *one* ruined tablecloth instead of two—attempts to frame this as a fair compromise. The satire targets working-class dishonesty masked as reasonableness. The laundryman's logic is absurd: he damaged the item, yet presents charging the full price as generosity. The cartoon mocks both his transparently self-serving "arrangement" and implicitly critiques service workers who exploit their position over wealthy clients' property. This reflects early 20th-century class anxieties about domestic servants and service providers—stock characters in Judge's satirical repertoire. The joke assumes reader sympathy with the exasperated middle-class householder facing casual dishonesty from her inferiors.
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