Judge — February 15, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Chawlie" in "The Curse of Fatigue" This is a 10-panel slapstick comic strip drawn by Zim featuring a character named "Chawlie" (likely depicted with an exaggerated accent or ethnic dialect based on the spelling). The narrative follows Chawlie's exhausting day: he's hired as a watchdog but criticized for poor performance, attempts various schemes to stay awake (strawberry beds, smoking, cuddling), grows increasingly fatigued, and eventually passes out while being chased or confronted by his employer. The "joke" relies on physical comedy—the progressive deterioration of an incompetent worker facing fatigue—typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine humor. The final caption promises next week's installment involves Chawlie disrupting a women's suffrage meeting, suggesting the strip uses the character for broader social satire. The humor is crude by modern standards, relying on slapstick and the character's apparent incompetence rather than wit.