Judge, 1918-02-16 · page 4 of 36
Judge — February 16, 1918 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the practice of using portable individual heating stoves in homes and offices during winter. The cartoonist (Orson Lowell) depicts various scenarios where people attempt to use separate small heaters rather than central heating systems. The humor mocks the inefficiency and social awkwardness: people huddled separately around individual heaters, the expense ("Well, hardly. And yet that $300 if it cost a cent, and her husband wearing that same overcoat all six winters"), and the absurdity of trying to heat oneself rather than the space ("just one thing after another it seems...Well, to make a long story short—But you're not—you're only spinning it out"). The final image of families gathered around individual heaters in a field suggests the ultimate ridiculousness of this approach to winter warmth.
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