Judge, 1909-01-23 · page 6 of 16
Judge — January 23, 1909 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge contains multiple satirical vignettes targeting early 20th-century social issues: **"When the Dear Things Get the Ballot"** mocks women's suffrage through a husband using his wife's political candidacy for "electioneering"—treating her ambitions cynically. **"Getting the News"** jokes about Sunday newspapers arriving too late, with the householder complaining that advertising gets discarded before the actual news content arrives. **"Fashion Notes"** uses puns to mock fashion pretensions—"butcher dressed to kill" with "cutthroat collar," and jibes at wealthy women for concealing their bodies' flaws under loose clothing while hiding their "pockets" (implying hidden wealth or infidelity). **"Barbers' Union No. 1"** satirizes labor unions by charging premium rates for customers with "too much cheek," "swelled head," or "rubber neck"—personality insults disguised as union pricing. **"Before/After Marriage"** depicts the stark contrast between courtship and married life through contrasting domestic scenes. **"On Pay Day"** cruelly suggests only the father matters financially; the rest of the family "amount to nothing." The overall tone reflects period anxieties about changing social structures, women's rights, and labor organization.
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WHEN THE DEAR ‘THINGS ¢ HE BALLOT, WHAT'S SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE, ETC 1, Hubby make a scene; you forget that Lam the Republican candidate for alderman from this district, Just a lit- tle electioneering, my dear.”” GETTING THE NEWS. 6EYJHAT do you mean by delivering my Sunday paper at this hour of the day? Why, it's most noon!" shouted the irate householder. ** But, boss, de’re so heavy "” “Then get a wagon. If you can’t bring it around before noon, I'll find some one who can. When it comes as late as this, I don't any more than get the advertising pages sorted out and carted away before the Monday morning edition comes."” FASHION NOTES. BUTCHER, dressed to kill, should wear stunning effects in the matter of waistcoats, He should have a cutthroat collar. He could secure such an outfit to advantage at any place where prices are slaughtered. A woman desiring to hold the affections of her husband must wear the clinging drapes. However, husbands of rich women sometimes relish a looseness in the figures of their wives. Every married woman, rich or poor, should keep up on the styles 's garments, as the de- ceitful creatures sometimes try to conceal the location of their pockets. winusaM 4. twee of me BARBERS’ UNION NO. To THE ordinary man we will continue to charge customary prices, Lut ‘fo the man with too much cheek we will charge twenty cents for a shave, To the man with a swelled head we will charge forty cents for a hair-cut. To the man with a rubber neck we will charge ten cents for a neck shave, NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED. RESS me closer, closer still, h what fervor you can master! All my nerves ive thr Press me closer mustard plaster! ON PAY DAY Father is the only ONE of the family. . ‘The rest even put together amount to nothing. 1. BEFORE MARRIA i ii 5 a good deal cheape HIS SPECIALTY. 66]S THERE anything you can do bet- Ze ter than any one else?” “Yes,” replied the small boy. ‘I REVELATION. HE truth that “figures never lie” I never dared assert, Until | saw Babette go by Clad in her new sheath skirt. But now I know, I must confess, My feeling can’t be hid, ‘That when it comes to women’s dress "Twere better if they did. AN EXCEPTION. ‘eman (pointing to large placard, ‘* No Smoking, as It Inter- feres with Insurance "’)—"* Hey, Mulligan! Don’t you see the sign?” Mulligan (between puffs)—* Rest aisy, sor! Oi'm too ould to be examined for loife inshurance, inyway.”” F 2 Wifey Twas after the De counts, hubby darli “Why, John, how foolish of you! Dida’t you hear that rati¢ nomination for city council? Every vote AFTER MARRIAGE, 10 p. m. 10 p. dq. LIGHT ON ECONOMY. soyou ALWAYS want to try todo all your reading in the daytime,”” said the stern teacher of physiology, unlight is addressing the class, much better than any artifici ma‘am,”’ said Edwin, ** It's kin read my own writing.”” comicbooks.com