Judge, 1908-12-26 · page 12 of 17
Judge — December 26, 1908 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains several satirical pieces targeting early 1900s social issues: **Top section**: "How Christmas Toys Are Made" mocks toy manufacturing quality—children test defective products, and a rocking horse falls apart, suggesting toys were poorly made or fraudulently "guaranteed." **Middle content**: Multiple brief jokes on social topics: - "The Woman Turned" celebrates Miss Mary Gawthorpe, a real suffragette, who cleverly retorted to sexist hecklers asking if she wished to be a man. The satire approves her quick wit. - "After the Honeymoon" and "Too Late" are standard marital-discord jokes—wives as burdens. - Other pieces mock theater audiences and mothers. **Bottom**: "The Umbrella Joke in a New Dress" shows a recurring tramp joke: two vagrants exchange a stolen umbrella for food, framed as "fair exchange." The page blends political commentary (supporting women's suffrage wit) with conventional domestic humor and working-class satire typical of the era's illustrated magazines.
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HOW CHRISTMAS TOYS ARE MADE. M IT WAS GUARANTEED. “Please, mother says will you give me another toothbrush? “The whiskers have dome out of this *un.— Punch, WOMAN'S WAY. Patience—** That Miss Bellow is go- ing to sing. Olivia—** Oh, is she? What shall we talk about?"’—The Tatler, Suburbanite—"* He's a very faithful He often carries my package orse wulptor —Punch. THE TEMPERATURE. “T hear she found the audien cold last night. ey were at first; but when they ed that they had paid good the show they got very THE WOMAN TURNED. Miss Mary Gawthorpe, the suffragette, who so completely turned the tables on an interrupter who, in a clumsy attempt at ridicule, asked her, ‘ Don’t you wii you were a man?” by replying, do you?’’ has added to her laurels: “Don’t you think mothers should stay at home with their children?” asked a callow youth, eager to score off a well- known married suf- fragette who had just spoken. “Well,’’ she said, her voice taking an ear- nest, intimate note, “I don't know about that; but I do think chil- dren should stay at home with the mothers."* —Lon- don Times, “WHERE THERE'S A WILL THE! AFTER THE HONEYMOON. My dear, are you not courting trouble by being so friendly to thy No, my dear; I have already married it."”"—Megyendorfer blaetter. TOO LATE Husband—"} must marry dearest, whet am gone, # that will be © will marry an woman like You ought to b died ten yer ago for that 'S ALWAYS A WAY. Meggendorfer B —Kleds Hans, ter. THE UMBRELLA JOKE IN A NEW DRESS. 2 Tramp—“ Zack! ‘That bumbershoot is worth a ood meal." Easy! A fair exchange is comicbooks.com