Judge — April 7, 1928 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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# The "Thirteen Club" Annual Dinner This cartoon satirizes the "Thirteen Club," a real organization of superstition-defiers who deliberately flouted bad-luck beliefs, particularly the notion that thirteen was unlucky. The club members held annual dinners on the 13th, often with thirteen guests. The joke shows well-dressed club members huddled under umbrellas indoors during their dinner—suggesting that despite their brave skepticism about superstition, they still behave superstitiously by taking protective measures. A bird perches ominously overhead, possibly hinting at further "bad luck" befalling them. The cartoon mocks the contradiction between the club's stated purpose (dismissing superstition) and their actual paranoid behavior, suggesting humans cannot truly escape their fear-based beliefs.