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Cartoons and Caricatures
of
Seattle Citizens
Published by the Associated Cartoon Service
E. A. Thomson. Manager
From the Press of the General Lithographing & Printing Company
Seattle, Washington
Photographs from which these Pen and Ink Sketches were
Produced have been furnished principally by
James & Bushnell and E. S. Curtis
Engravings by the Art Engraving Company
Seattle Artists
- F. CALVERT
- JOHN R. GILL
- CHAS. H. DICKSON, Jr.
- EDWIN F. BROTZE
- ERNEST JENNER
- A. BOBBETT
- GEORGE HAGER
- TOM THURLBY
COPYRIGHT BY
E. A. THOMSON
1906
A Word About the Wise
“A laugh,” wrote the gentle and genial Charles Lamb, “is wortha hundred groans in any market.”
Our hard-headed and far-figuring men of business have been quickto see and seize the truth of this great law of supply and demand. Beingthemselves alert men of the market place, and appreciating fully themelancholy world’s urgent need of the titillating tonic called laughter,they have cheerfully set to work to supply that need. The man wholaughs, they wisely argued, is the man who buys.
They required, however, in their altruistic schemes, just a littleassistance from their brothers of the pointed pens and the black inkpots—the newspaper cartoonists. Would these kindly step forward andhelp in a noble cause? Gaily these worthies sharpened their rustingpens, right merrily they stirred the thickening ink, and here you havethe crystallization of their comic brew—a precious handful of gildedhomeopathic pills, sometimes called cartoons, which will prove to be asure cure for all business troubles of an internal nature, as well as formany that have nothing to do with business.
These cartoons are sweet and clean and wholesome, very pleasantto the palate and remarkably efficacious in chronic cases of indigestionand disordered spleen. They clear the mind and restore business confidence.They enrich the blood, the brain, the liver—and the purse.Mixed with the wine of good sense they produce a volatile drink thatsparkles and effervesces into rippling mirth and bubbling laughter, adraught the high Olympian gods might long for. Best of all, not asingle pill is bitter to the taste.
In short, the cartoonists of Seattle prove conclusively, so he whosmiles may read, that a laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
ANTONY E. ANDERSON.
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