Judge, 1894-08-11 · page 5 of 16
Judge — August 11, 1894 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page collects multiple satirical comic strips and jokes typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: **"A Terrible Strain"** mocks ambitious modern women through a hen struggling to lay oversized eggs—commentary on women's expanding social roles. **"An Expedient"** satirizes young couples' public displays of affection at beaches, with characters debating whether their constant romantic behavior is admirable devotion or annoying excess. **"The Modern Eve"** directly attacks women's suffrage and emerging feminism. The poem ridicules a woman loudly advocating for voting rights, equal treatment, and even smoking—while her husband timidly stays home darning socks and caring for their baby. The satire suggests women's liberation causes domestic role-reversal and emasculation. **"Why He Ran"** contains a pun about electric cars being controlled by "poles" (electrical poles). **"It Makes All the Difference"** contrasts a fat man's embarrassing beach appearance with clothed dignity. These pieces reflect pre-suffrage anxieties about changing gender roles and women's rights activism.
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JUDGE A TERRIBLE STRAIN. 46 YOU look weary,” said Mr. Cochin China to his ta- vorite wife. “I look just as I feel, then,” cackled the ambitious hen, “The exertion of keeping my eggs up to the size of modern hailstones is wearing my life away.” AN EXPEDIENT. Lily Gushington (with intense sympathy)—" Dan and Kitty are so devoted to each other!” Mr. Smith- Perkins —\ should think so. The way they carry on!” Lily. Gushington —* Carry on?” Mr, Smith- Perkins —* Yes—wandering on the beach moonlight nights holding each other's hands and skulking behind rocks with osculatory intent, and "— Lily Gushington—*Why, of course. They are so fond of each other. And they don’t like bathing the least bit because it’s so public. So many bathers and people watching from the sand that they can’t do or say any- ing.” ‘Mr. Smith- Perkins —" How cruel!" ET WASTROUCE 70 THE Lily Gushington— "Ves, But they're going to get eon, around it, They're practicing it every day. Haven't you Mavp—" But we could never make noticed them ?” both ends meet on your salary, Bob.” Mr. Smith-Perkins —" Practicing what ?” : Bon—"*Oh, yes, we could — with Lily Gushington —“* Why, diving from the float and ~~ | what I'd borrow of your father. ! . Ht staying under water long enough to kiss each other. n WHY HE RAN, Jones —"*I believe all the ele country are controlled by foreignes Brow: “* What makes you think so?” Jones —" Because they are run by poles.” THE MODERN EVE. NE aired with great intensity her woman’s-rights propensity — talked of the soul's immensity, and books and books she wrote About man’s asininity — said that it was infinity and vowed in each vicinity that woman ought to vote. If we would have prosperity, she said with great severity, “twas due to our posterity that men should share the yoke. And why should insobriety be base man’s impropriety? And with immense anxiety she asked, ‘* Shall women smoke 7” But while with much loquacity she dwelt on her capac- ity and with such stern pugnacity she cried, “When will this stop?" Her husband quit liquidity and home with deep timidity darned socks with great rapidity while baby called her ** pop. Tom sasson, THE FASHION. Hank Rawuones—" By gum ! 1 guess I ain't fer behind the fashions in hats nowadays." FOR THE OPEN ELECTRIC. seo HATS allowed on this car unless IT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. THe FAT MAN—"' Don't get mad, Sam. It's only a harmless joke of the boys'." comicbooks.com