Judge, 1929-09-21 · page 5 of 36
Judge — September 21, 1929 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "Helping Hands" and "Hopeless" **"Helping Hands"** satirizes the financial burden of twins. Two men discuss how twins will "run you into money," debating whether pooling expenses (sharing clothes, combining costs) makes economic sense. The cartoon shows a broken-down car, illustrating the financial strain. The humor targets middle-class anxieties about child-rearing expenses during an era when large families strained household budgets. **"Hopeless"** contains two brief anecdotes mocking wives as poor drivers—one English woman who drove on the wrong side of the road, another Scottish woman who brought a baby to the hospital fearing silver spoons in its mouth. The final quip about prisons and Commander Eckener (airship pioneer) is unclear without additional context. The satire relies on period stereotypes about women drivers.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“Helping Hands” When you learn that it's twins. “Put er there, old man! You certainly showed up the doubters, ch? It’s going to run you into money, though, isn’t i “Well, I think it’s a good idea to have the whole thing over with, once and for all. And you can always revise your budget, you “Glad? Of course —who wouldn't be I'd sort of rather take : like that in stride, so to. spe Wha ure you going to call ‘em? “Why, just think of it—they can wear one another's clothes! That's no end of a saving right there to offset the double costs you hadn't figured on.” “Nothing doing, my boy—all bets are off! I've just bec ing it over with the gang, you get is a hearty handshak “Go on, you cin take that car- riage back ‘and get Su-re, the stores death to aces double one. - tickled to ute men like that’s only one ‘ome again, come Staxtey Jones Exorin help you down. JUDGE Swatx-—Come, dearest—here’s the ladder and I'll | | | moe : ~ Ss “Y¥? can come out now, Mister, the rain’s all over.” Hopeless | “Never again will I motor through Europe. My wife is the worst driver in the world. There was only one single time when she — | drove on the right hand side of the road.” And where was that?” “In England.” | A Scotchman’s wife had a | baby. He hurried to the hospital | to see if the kid had any silver spoons in its mouth. Maybe the big idea is to make the prisons so homelike that people will stay away from them. No one but the Lord can help Commander Eckener when he has a puncture. iy ~-comicbooks.com