Judge, 1901-03-02 · page 6 of 12
Judge — March 2, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces mocking gender differences and social behavior of the era: **Top illustration**: An elopement scene from "Puritan Days" where a young man urges his reluctant bride to flee on horseback. The joke: she's named "Prudence" and lives up to it, doubting the horse's quality. **Main comics below** satirize contrasts between men and women: - Women notice clothing and fashion details; men notice only a woman's face - A woman's emotional response to a tramp cat versus a man's dismissive cruelty ("Scat, you brute") - A woman loves dancing; a man at a ball feels like a jumping toy - A man plans to wear his wife's coat to a masquerade as a "lawn-tent" (joke about her dress size) **Side items** mock journalism ethics (hiding under tables for stories) and family pride in "creepers" (climbing plants, implying inferior relatives). The satire reflects early 1900s gender stereotypes: women as emotional, fashion-conscious, and sentimental; men as superficial, callous, and crude.
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COPYmiant, 190t, ey JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK DEACON ELDERBERRY AND HIS TIME AN ELOPEMENT IN THE PURITAN DAYS. Young Caspar is urging his Birdie to ly—oh, fly with him; but Birdie, not belying her given name, which is Prudence, has noticed the calibre of the steed upon which they are supposed to fly, and has her doubts, AN ERROR. THEY proudly ushered me in to see The latest branch of the family- tree, And wouldn't you think they'd feel the cheaper ?— For, ‘pon my word, ‘twas only a creeper. MAKING PROGRESS. Penfield—" How are you get- ting on in the noble profession of journalism?” Yellow journalist — First-rate. Yesterday I was hiding under the table in the grand-jury room, while to-day I'm hustling subscriptions for a loving-cup.” INNUENDO, [7 ISN'T the thing you say, dear, But the thing that you leave un- said— ‘The meaning shrug of the shoulder That leaves a character dead. In the spoken word lies peril ; One might be brought to book ; But who can convict an eyelash, Or prove murder against a look? MARGARET WENTWORTH. HIS HAPPY IDEA. $+ GOING to the masque, Sport- man?" “Sure thing. I'm going to borrow my wife's new street-coat and appear as a lawn-tent.” A woman sees nothing but another 5 A man sees nothing but her face. woman's dress. A woman “just loves * to dance. SOME A woman sees an old tramp Aman at a ball feels like a jump- cat prowling along the street and A man sees the same cat and says, ing-jack. says sympathetically, ‘Poor ‘Scat, you brute!" and then chuckles, kitty!" EVERY-DAY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE AVERAGE MAN AND WOMAN comicbooks.com he" WEA. a ee ee aa ee eee ee, ee