CARTOONS
BY
McCUTCHEON
CARTOONS
B Y
McCUTCHEON
A Selection of One Hundred Drawings
By JOHN T. McCUTCHEON
INCLUDING THE FAMOUS “BOY IN SPRINGTIME” SERIES, ETC.
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO
1904
Copyright
By A. C. McClurg & Co.
1903
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Published May 2, 1903
Second Edition, May 20, 1903
Third Edition, June 20, 1903
Fourth Edition, July 15, 1903
Fifth Edition, January 1, 1904
The cartoons in this volume originally appeared in “The Chicago
Record-Herald,” and they are now reprinted through the courtesy
of the publisher of that paper, Mr. Frank B. Noyes.
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
CONCERNING
MR. McCUTCHEON’S CARTOONS
THOSE who have studied and admired Mr. McCutcheon’s cartoons in the daily press doubtless have been favorably impressed by the two eminent characteristics of his intent. First, he cartoons public men without grossly insulting them. Second, he recognizes the very large and important fact that political events do not fill the entire horizon of the American people. It has not been very many years since the newspaper cartoon was a savage caricature of some public man who had been guilty of entertaining tariff opinions that did not agree with the tariff opinions of the man who controlled the newspaper. It was supposed to supplement the efforts of the editorial in which the leaders of the opposition were termed “reptiles.”
¶ The first-class, modern newspaper seems to have awakened to the fact that our mundane existence is not entirely wrapped up in politics. Also, that a man may disagree with us and still have some of the attributes of humanity.
¶ In Mr. McCutcheon’s cartoons we admire the clever execution, and the gentle humor which diffuses all of his work, but I dare say that more than all we admire him for his considerate treatment of public men and his blessed wisdom in getting away from the hackneyed political subjects and giving us a few pictures of that every-day life which is our real interest.
George Ade
A BOY IN SPRINGTIME
“Dog gone it! I wish they hadn’t found her till after the baseball season.”
A BOY IN SPRINGTIME
“Aw, that’s easy. I can do lots harder ones than that.”
A BOY IN SPRINGTIME
A BOY IN SPRINGTIME
A BOY IN SPRINGTIME
The Last Day of School
THE FRENCH EMISSARY STUDIES OUR INDUSTRIAL METHODS
Up-to-Date Architecture
THE FRENCH EMISSARY STUDIES OUR INDUSTRIAL METHODS
The Enterprising Daily Paper
THE FRENCH EMISSARY STUDIES OUR INDUSTRIAL METHODS
The Stock Yards
THE FRENCH EMISSARY STUDIES OUR INDUSTRIAL METHODS
The Board of Trade
THE COLISEUM HORSE SHOW
AT LAST WE ARE TO HAVE FOX HUNTING NEAR CHICAGO
A SUNDAY TROLLEY TRIP ALONG THE NORTH SHORE
SUNDAY IN LINCOLN PARK
DERBY DAY
THE LAKE FOREST HORSE SHOW
THE WOMEN’S GOLF TOURNAMENT
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
The Pirate Chieftain—“We’re Surrounded by perils. Behind Us is a Herd of Wild Buffaloes, on One Side Is an Unfriendly Shore Swarming with Hostile Natives, and in Front of Us Are Breakers and Deadly Reptiles.”
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
The Blowing-up of Penelope
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
“For the land’s sake, child, where do you put all the stuff you eat? This is the fourth piece you’ve had since breakfast.”
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
“Come and look at your new sister, Johnny.”
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
“I wonder if she likes him better than she does me.”
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
A BOY IN SUMMER-TIME
“Suddently Attackted” by Serious Illness on the First Morning of School
THE VACATION SEASON
READING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CIRCUS DAY
THE DINNER-HORN AT HARVEST-TIME
THE COUNTY FAIR
THE OPENING DAY OF THE COLLEGES
THE COLLEGES ARE NOW IN FULL BLAST
THE FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
“’Cept Spring and Summer, I like Fall the best of all.”
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
“Little Brother visits the School”
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
“Poor little fellow, I’m afraid he’s a pretty sick little dog.”
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
The Burial of Kafoozalum
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
“Go ahead, Bill, you’re braver than I am. We’ll just pertend we’re pirates and the crulls is a ship filled with gold and joolry.”
A BOY IN FALL-TIME
Three Days before Thanksgiving—“I believe I’ll just pertend it’s Thanksgiving already.”
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
A Little Exhibition of Democratic Simplicity at a New York Luncheon
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
Ten Minutes in St. Louis
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
Puzzle—“Whom are they expecting?”
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
A Costume Event at the Auditorium, illustrating Life in the Wild West
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
Milwaukee
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
Niagara Falls
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
Boston
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
Boston
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
An Afternoon Tea in New York
ENTERTAINING PRINCE HENRY
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for a very Pleasant Visit”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS RESTING AT OYSTER BAY
| First he chops down a few trees. | Then takes a cross-country canter. |
| Then takes a cross-country canter. | After which he gives the children a wheel-barrow ride. |
| He then rests for a moment. | By which time he is ready for breakfast. |
OUR PRESIDENT ENTERTAINS SOME OF HIS FRIENDS AT OYSTER BAY
| He first entertains an old fellow tennis-player. | And then shows a few fellow rough riders around town. |
| After which he is visited by some fellow LL.D.’s. | And then a couple of old hunter friends. |
| A few fellow politicians then call to discuss the situation. | And finally he has a pleasant chat with some fellow authors and historians. |
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VISITS MR. CLEVELAND AT PRINCETON
“Ah! Welcome to Princeton, Mr. Roosevelt.”
“Would you like to look at my photograph albums?”
“That one weighed eight pounds, Theodore.”
BEAR HUNTING IN MIASMA, MISSISSIPPI
“Now, you jest be patient, Mr. President, and ye’ll soon have a nice mess o’ bar.”
(Four hours later.) “I wonder where the bears are to-day. This is unbearable.”
(Eight hours later.) “Strange there wa’n’t none o’ them bar around. Reckon you all wa’n’t patient enough, Mr. President.”
CAMPAIGNING WITH BATHHOUSE JOHN
The Poet Candidate Gives an Author’s Reading before Literary Circles in the Lodging-House District
CAMPAIGNING WITH BATHHOUSE JOHN
Courier from the Front—“They’ve routed the ‘Old Guard,’ General!”
OUR CHICAGO ALDERMEN IN NEW YORK
“Ah, gents, permit us to show you our beautiful city.”
“Now, gents, step right up and try to pick out the little joker.”
“Great Scott, Shorty, who wass them guys, anyway?”
OUR CHICAGO ALDERMEN IN BOSTON
“Ah, gentlemen, you are interested in literature, are you not?”
“Why, sure.”
“How is the literary movement in the West, gentlemen?”
“Fine. Moving right along in great shape.”
“I suppose you enjoy Emerson, gentlemen?”
“Why, yes, I suppose so. What paper’s he on now?”
“And do you not love Holmes, the dear old Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?”
“You bet! There’s nobody like Sherlock for a good, rattling detective story.”
A BOY IN WINTER-TIME
“Look, Ma! See how much wood we carried in, and you didn’t haf to ask us to, either. And we watered the plants, too.”
A BOY IN WINTER-TIME
A Letter to Santy
A BOY IN WINTER-TIME
“Well, how lovely for you to come over to visit your Aunt Mary! And you’re just in time for dinner, too. Isn’t that nice? Did you tell your mother that you were going visiting?”
A BOY IN WINTER-TIME
“Come on! Hurry up, fellers! The hounds have found the trail!”
A BOY IN WINTER-TIME
The Fairy Story—“Once upon a time there was a very beautiful little fairy princess—”
A BOY IN WINTER-TIME
“I bet yer glad to be out again, haint you, Johnny?”
MR. MORGAN VISITS KING EDWARD
KING EDWARD MEETS MR. MORGAN
| “Good-evening, Your Majesty.” “Good-evening, Mr. Morgan.” | “You look well in your knickers, Morgan.” “I came on my bike, King Edward.” |
| “Your crown becomes you very much, King.” “I’m afraid it needs pressing, Pierpont.” | “Have a fresh cigar, Pierp.” “Thanks, Edward. It looks like a good one.” |
| “Let me reciprocate, Ed. Have a bunch of stocks on me.” “Thanks. Don’t care if I do.” | And then Pierpont settled down to business. |
MR. MORGAN MEETS THE KAISER
“I hope you like my original painting, Mr. Morgan?”
“Very clever, Your Majesty.”
“I hope you enjoy my original musical composition, Mr. Morgan?”
“It’s very clever.”
“My original poetry interests you, I trust?”
“What’s that about ‘trust’? Ah, now you interest me, Your Majesty.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIVERS AN ADDRESS TO THE TRUST MAGNATES
President Roosevelt—“We must regulate the bad trusts, and—
“Perhaps revise the tariff on articles that are sold cheaper abroad than at home.”
THE SPEAKER THAT SPOKE AT THE WRONG TIME
“Sh! Do not speak, or else you’ll wake the tariff.”
And just then Speaker Henderson came along.
SOCIAL HAPPENINGS AT BIRD CENTER, ILLINOIS
A Reception in the K. of P. Hall in Honor of the Hon. Ephraim Pumphrey, Congressman-Elect
“Among those present were Mrs. Riley Withersby, widow of the late Riley Withersby; Rev. Walpole and wife and children, Dr. Crosby Niebling and wife, Judge Horatio S. Warden, Mr. Smiley W. Greene, the popular undertaker, and wife and children; Captain Roscoe Fry and wife and children, Mine Host, ‘Mort’ Peters, of the Bird Center House, and wife; Attorney D. I. Black and wife and children, Messrs. Winthrop K. Biddle, of Philadelphia, Elmer Pratt, Homer Withersby, Orville Peters, Riley W. Peters, Wilbur Fry, and ‘ye editor,’ J. Oscar Fisher; Misses Flossye Niebling, —— Barnard, of Xenia, Ohio; Lucile Ramona Fry, Grace Niebling, Kate Warden, who is home for the Thanksgiving vacation; Mae Niebling, Myrtle Peters, Elizabeth Nicklefield, Anna Walpole, Clara Black, and Alys Fry. Chris C. Newbower was also among those present.”
SOCIAL HAPPENINGS AT BIRD CENTER, ILLINOIS
Mrs. Riley Withersby entertains the Bird Center Reading Circle
“A delightful affair was that given last evening at the pleasant residence of Mrs. Riley Withersby. It was the monthly meeting of the Bird Center Reading Circle and was an unusually successful and happy function. Among those present were Mrs. Riley Withersby, Rev. Walpole and wife and children, Mr. Smiley W. Greene, the popular undertaker, and wife and children, Mine Host, ‘Mort’ Peters, of the Bird Center House, and wife and children, Messrs. Elmer Pratt, Homer Withersby, Orville Peters, Riley W. Peters, Wilbur Fry, and ye editor, J. Oscar Fisher, Misses Lucile Ramona Fry, Grace Niebling, Kate Warden, Mae Niebling, Myrtle Peters, Anna Walpole, Clara Black, and others. Chris C. Newbower was also present for a while.”