Judge, 1923-03-03 · page 16 of 36
Judge — March 3, 1923 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page showcases wildlife photography from African expeditions, presented with humorous captions. The content celebrates naturalistic documentation of dangerous animals—elephants, rhinos, zebras, and camels—as an alternative to zoo study. The humor is genteel and tongue-in-cheek: comparing wart hogs to "road hogs" (reckless drivers), joking that rhino-hunting costs hunters their shirts, and suggesting the zebra resembles a "pony ballet" performer. A caption credits photographer H.A. Snow's "protective rifle," acknowledging the actual danger of the expedition. The page reflects early-20th-century American fascination with exotic wildlife and adventure narratives. It's not satirizing politics or current events, but rather celebrating exploration and photography as entertainment for armchair travelers—readers who'd "walk a mile" to see such pictures without personal risk.
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Hunting Big Game with Gun and Camera The wart hog and the road hog dis- pute the right of way. To anybody who has been cagey enough to confine his study of wild animals to the Zoo, this moving picture will increase his knowledge of the deni- zens of the African veldt without danger to life or limb. There is nothing the matter with this pic- ture. Behind the protective rifle of H. A. Snow Not the kind elephant which eats the children’s peanuts, but the kind of elephant that devours the peanut’s children. 14 A dangerous game is the two-horned white rhino. Many a shirt has been lost playing it. The broad-striped African zebra, with his gaudy cos- tume and bare legs, is prob- ably the original pony ballet