Judge — April 12, 1924 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This page contains two satirical cartoons about poverty and crime, likely from the early 20th century. **Top cartoon**: A child negotiates movie ticket prices with a cashier, asking for "one 'alf ticket, one quarter, and one for nothin'?" — demonstrating how poor families stretched meager resources to afford entertainment. **Bottom cartoon**: A burglar boasts to his accomplice about stealing goods, expecting five years imprisonment but claiming he won't "wait breakfast" — dark humor about the inevitability of arrest and incarceration for criminals in desperate circumstances. Both cartoons satirize urban poverty: the first shows children's resourcefulness in accessing culture, the second depicts crime as a predictable consequence of destitution. The humor relies on working-class dialect and the grim acceptance of poverty's cycle.