Judge, 1906-03-24 · page 4 of 16
Judge — March 24, 1906 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several distinct satirical pieces: **"Pride"** (top left): Features Ida Conquest, an actress from Collier's play "On the Quiet." The text's wordplay on her name suggests satirical commentary on theatrical vanity. **"The Sly Things"** (middle): Mocks a women's convention that resolved to wear old fashions and hats. The satire suggests women's resistance to fashion change while ironically pursuing new hat-and-dress trends—poking fun at contradictory female consumer behavior. **Bottom section**: Two comic panels illustrating the aphorism "Between money and debt there is a swinging door," depicting financial precarity. **"Kept Her Word"** (bottom): A brief joke where a woman promised not to marry the handsomest man—and she didn't, suggesting the man she married was less attractive. The overall tone is characteristic of early 20th-century Judge: lighthearted social satire targeting women's fashion, theatrical culture, and financial anxiety.
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sician, your little daughter's foot seems to have been bruised severely, that is all. Prob- ably she struck it agitinst a stone, or the wall, At any rate, you need not worry. [would suggest that you apply the old-fash- joned remedy —a bread + and - milk poult “How com. mon!" murmured the proud mamma, whose husband, by the way, had just succeeded in turn- ing another mil- lion-dollar trick in JUDGE'S FAVORITES stocks.“ Bread- IDA CONQUEST IN COLLIER’S PLAY, "ON THE guier.” —_and-milk poultice ! Now this we hold 's a mystery Doctor, don’t you Why you a name should bear think it would be So nicely fitted to your way more in accord Of conquering everywhere. awening every with our position But not alone this mystery stands; in society if we Another grows right by it . a Why such a blithesome conqueror used a poultice of EVEN INO THOSE Dave Should be starred ** On the Quiet.” cake and ice- a —_— ee They’s a schooner on our weather-bow, captin. creams * Wot's her name?” “De mate makes her out de Slowpoke." caine anblibtbbe ded “*Gwan wid de game, boys; she hails from Philadelphia. to break the shackles of fashion and to continue to wear the hats AS EVER. and nice-looking Twenty minutes after the meeting adjourned they*met again This time they met each other in the shops, where each was selecting One sneeze, in memory of its ice and snow, anew hat and dress, feeling that the opportunity to make the others ‘Then flaunt our shirt-waists where the sunbeams play. And gentle spring has come—in negligé. the dear departed we bestow and dresses they had last spring, and which were still perfectly good (EP winter wrapped in far as pased aay Up look like back-numbers was too good to miss. Even then they did not realize that the anti-new-hat-and-dress convention had been worked up by the arbiters of fashion. But hark! What sound is here—what note Rasps out from open-worked and lace-garbed throat? Upon the smiling spring we throw more e A: + ree A look suspicious ; then we BETWEEN money and debt there is a swinging door. When you hid tein Tae ALsecle baths or, tAUiS PERN, run out of one you run in the other. LUHANA \, SHELDON. . PT HER WORD. “Mamma, | wouldn't marry the handsomest man living.””