Judge — September 12, 1925 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "If Good Little Boys Really Wore Halos" This is a humorous cartoon strip imagining what would happen if children who behaved well actually displayed visible halos like religious depictions of angels and saints. The comic shows a series of escalating mischief scenarios: children playing with hoops ("Jump!"), throwing them around, one child complaining his halo was bitten by a baby, another frustrated that his halo has drafts, and finally a child dragging a wagon that's caught fire while claiming he's "making" one and asking another child "how much will ya take for it?" The satire's point is straightforward: real children constantly misbehave and cause chaos, so if halos actually appeared on "good" children, they'd be in constant danger of damage and loss. It's gentle commentary on childhood behavior versus adult expectations of angelic innocence.