Judge, 1899-08-26 · page 7 of 16
Judge — August 26, 1899 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge's social commentary: **"Thirteen Thoughts of an Idleress"** offers witty aphorisms mocking women's idleness and romantic notions—satirizing both unmarried women's views on marriage and the era's assumptions about women's intellectual limitations versus beauty. **"Summer Girl Engagements"** cartoon depicts a rural father warning a young man away from a "summer girl," suggesting these were frivolous visitors known for breaking hearts and causing emotional damage to local boys. **"Striking Incompatibility"** is a legal joke: a husband and wife seek divorce because they disagree on getting one—he refuses while she wants it, making them fundamentally incompatible. **"A Widening Gulf"** poem warns against marrying young women, noting that men age faster, creating an increasing gap as husbands grow older while wives remain youthful—a commentary on the marriage age disparity common in the era. **"An Unexpected Caricature"** shows animals observing a large shape, with an old man revealing it's "cheese"—likely a visual pun or absurdist humor. All pieces reflect early-20th-century attitudes toward courtship, marriage, and gender roles.
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THIRTEEN THOUGHTS OF AN IDLERESS. 2 WOMAN should ride a hob- by in public; there is only room for the men. No one is so eloquent on the subject of matrimony as the unmarried. If you have nothing to unlearn the chances are you have learned nothing. Marrying your ideal is almost as dangerous as be- ing wedded to an idea. Of all cultivated tastes that of laughing at a joke on yourself is most usetul. The man of one idea is tresome, but the man who hasn't one is more so, None but the brave de- serves the fair; but it is the man that stays at home that gets her. Persons who always discuss their neighbors are SSS TOTC SOG “ae Letra RD REE Gonoes whe aa 4 NO SUMMER. GIRL ENGAGEMENTS. ** Be you one o' them summer gals? ’ er do are unbearable. : * Well, [hardly know. Why 7 The woman who says she would rather be clever “Well, if you be you don’t want to do none o" your heart-breakin’ funny business with my boy Silas, ‘cos he’s of that tender an’ lovin’ disposition that an't stand disapp'intment.”” than handsome has never had the chance to be either. Of course it is preferable for a woman to be beautiful rather thaa intellectual; for there are tinany stupid men, but few blind ones. To condense the material for a long article into an epigram requires courage—or the certainty that the article would have been rejected. Whea your fairy godmothers have given you a sense of humor, a love of books and a keen imag’ nation you may snap your fingers at the bad fai who come alter. ‘To learn tact in a year—Study when to be silent for three hundred and sixty-four days, twenty-three hours and fifty-five minutes; then spend the rest of =the time learning when to speak. A WIDENING GULF. DON'T marty t00 young a maiden, For you will be growing older: STRIKING INCOMPATIBILITY ‘When years are upon you laden Lawyse—* You wish a divorce from your husband on the ground of incompatibility? How does t She will. be growing colder, this incompatibility of temperament manifest itself 2” Your age so much greater, and there's the blame ; Lavy—" Why, I want to get a divorce and he doesn’t ?” But a woman's age remains just the same. Ee seit 4 rs a rar PECTED CARICATURE. ‘THe ANimats —"* What a cinch!” ** Cheese it, the old man !” comicbooks.com