Judge, 1904-01-09 · page 4 of 16
Judge — January 9, 1904 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several domestic humor sketches typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine. The cartoons satirize marital dynamics and household authority: **"From Time Immemorial"** depicts a husband's excuse ("barefaced lie") about telephoning business keeping him downtown—a common evasion about infidelity or leisure time that wives supposedly shouldn't question. **"He Obeyed"** and **"About the Size of It"** show a child's obedience to a policeman versus resistance to parental authority, and a child calling his father "Colonel" (a title he doesn't possess)—gentle satire on paternal pretension and household hierarchy. The scattered anecdotes mock masculine pretense, wives' skepticism of husbands' excuses, and the gap between men's self-importance and family reality. The humor targets familiar domestic friction points of the era.
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FROM TIME IM- MEMORIAL, 46 BAREFACED lie!" exclaims the wife, hanging up the receiver of the tel- ephone. “ What is it, my daughter?" asks her mother, who is visit- ing her. + John telephones that business will de- tain him down town to-night and that we are not to sit up for him.” “ Barefaced lie?" cries her mother. “Why, Lizzie, that story has been used so often by husbands that it is in need of crutches, Barefaced ? It had whiskers on it before Adam raised a JUDGE'S FAVORITES. beard.” VIOLET HALLS IN “THE OFPICE BOY."* When we see you kick, aglow, ARGUMENT WAS Dull care into Jericho, USELESS. Which, we one and all agree, “BUT.” protested Is your blooming special-tee, Abeer Then, oh, siren ripe and rare! the loving wife, tn your art beyond compare, “before I was mar- Of the wid andlgreat demand Hed (1 “always had a For the rose that brings each day new bonnet every One dol-lar upon Broadway. time I wanted one.” Pe RSS “Yes,” answered the brutal husband, without looking up from his paper; ‘and I put fresh cheese in the mouse-trap every night until I had caught that mouse in the pantry.” COULDN'T SLEEP STANDING. oe PHATS thot ?" said the newly-hired maid, pointing to the folding-bed in her room. “ A folding-bed,” was the reply. “If thot’s th’ case Oi can’t shtay here. Oi niver cud shlape shtand- in’ up.” A HUNGRY, YEARNING SOUL. Mr. Newlyblessed—* Indeed, sir, a home without a baby is a home without a soul. It is an absolute family need.” Singleton— Yes ; a crying need, | fancy.” HE WAS IN IT. ** But, papa, he owns stock in twenty different corporations."" “Phew! I didn't know he had been in politics so long as that. Have him call whenever you like.” DIAGNOSING HIS DISPOSITION. (eTHERE'S old Blithers. He takes such a jaundiced view of the world,” remarks Gilworthy. “Not always,” says Migglebury. “He only gets those pessi- mistic moods on him when he has been drinking.” “Same thing, in effect. He takes a demijohndiced view.” ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT. Willie Littleboy (who has an inquiring mind)—“ Papa, ‘ col- onel’ is a title, isn’t it, that belongs "—— Papa—* No, my son; it is an opprobrious epithet.” HE OBEYED. Poticeuan—" Here, you young scamp! throw that snowball away.” Bor—"All right, sir!"* comicbooks.com