Judge, 1904-04-02 · page 7 of 16
Judge — April 2, 1904 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical cartoons mocking marriage and gender relations, typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American humor. **"His A-1 Joy"** celebrates a man's simple pleasure smoking a clay pipe—innocent escapism from domestic life. **"The Future"** presents a husband's philosophical joke: heaven is where women eternally shop for bonnets; hell is where men eternally pay for them. This reflects period anxieties about women's consumer spending and male financial responsibility. **"A La Mode"** depicts marital conflict over fashion—the wife demands ruffles; the husband criticizes her temper. She "basted him" (verbally attacked him) for the insult. **"What a Woman Intends to Do"** shows the disconnect between premarital promises and reality: Mrs. Knowhat vows her future children will behave properly when visiting; seven years later, her actual children are chaotic during visits. The humor relies on stereotypes: frivolous women obsessed with shopping and fashion, nagging wives, and harried husbands. These cartoons satirize domestic friction by exaggerating gender role expectations and marital disappointments.
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HIS A-t JOY. EIT PTER all my day's labor TAy Tike a snipe And take down from the cupboard my dandy clay pipe, And T blow up the smoke-rings in time double quick As 1 puff and 1 blow on the killikinick. Oh, T see all the towers that climb on a string, And T sce all the robins that chirp as they wi And T dre Round the pipe-stem T twist my gay bottle-green smile. the Large and the picnic the wh Oh, my pocket ' ined and my head wears a crown As [swing high my arms while T dance a breakdown 5 Au secret of all my wild joy as T kick May be found in my pipefal of killikinick. THE FUTURE. THE husband sits in deep thought, In his hand is a huge book of philosophy. On the floor near his chair are other books, in which the world’s great thinkers have set forth their views on the future life. Across the room, at a mirror, the wife is trying the effect of a new bonnet with her hair done in different styles. Jo," says the husband at last; “tall these fellows are wrong about the next What is it, Henry 2” asks the wife. +L have just decided that heaven is a place where women are always buying spring bonnets and the other place is « spot where the men are forever paying for them,” APPROPRIATE. “Why do you call your mule ‘ Golf-ball," uncle ?” “**Cause yo" hab ter hit him so blame hahd ter drive him enny distance, sah." SSS NOY PROVEN! “Hivin fergive me fer iver makin’ th’ shtatemint thot a dude wor no use in this wor-ruld!"" A LA MODE. se] IS unkind of you to say | may not have ruffle: 1 frills, when they are in fashion,” protests the wife. ‘The husband preserves a grim silence, Here the wife grows angrier still and gives him a large piece of her mind. “Tt would not be becoming to you,” a the husband alter she has paused for breath how you look when even your temper is ruffled.” Then she basted him, gu ‘ 7) Ay Mm hi Ly MMM WHAT A WOMAN INTENDS TO DO WHEN SHE GETS MARRIED. Mrs. Knownat—"" Well, there is one thing certain—if 1 ever have children they'll behave themselves when we go visiting.” Seven years later. Mrs. Knowhat making a visit with her "* model family."" comicbooks.com