Judge, 1909-03-27 · page 7 of 24
Judge — March 27, 1909 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: **"The Call of the Wild"** mocks the extreme fashion constraints imposed on women—corsets, tight lacing, and elaborate styling that deform the body. The female speaker rebels against being artificially shaped by fashion designers (referencing "Worth," the famous designer), comparing women's suffering to whales wearing their own bones naturally. **"Big Bands and Little Noise"** satirizes orchestral padding—the practice where bandmasters hire non-musician "dummies" to fill out bands for parades, inflating headcount without improving sound quality. The joke targets both the dishonest practice and the useless dummies who simply "mark time." **"Electrocuted"** and other brief sections offer light social humor about modern life. **"Reflections of a Club Man"** and **"At the Young Ladies' Club"** present cynical observations on marriage and relationships—typical satirical commentary on domestic life. The naval cartoon advertises a boat product. Overall, the page targets fashion excess, orchestral fraud, and marital discord—common Judge targets for social satire.
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THE CALL OF THE WILD. 'M TIRED of this fuss and this fixin’, These psyche-knots, lacings and curls, And all of the foolish old tricks in The making of fashionable girls. Let the whale wear his own bones— he needs them Far more so, I'm sure, t dol; Though they give us the grace of a pipe-stem, It’s out of these tube things I'll pry. off at the elbow, lit up to the kne Style does, you all know, w much you shall see, Last year w we ’ We are pulled long, jerked short, or flattened, Just to fit the v And modistes hav By keeping us one horrid fak § A man has a right to the shaping ‘That's meted out to t birth; APTER ‘THE We're this, that or Uother, while aping The latest dementia of Worth. jie tatiy MPRCIA MARTON TAYLON ae the hlahens € ELECTROCUTED. sweet things were no SEYJAITER, has this s Yes, sir; by “Well, e it back, shock. bers didn't make more noise than another but smaller one in the same procession? Perhaps you did. But did it oceur to you, | then, that this larger collection of musi- | cians blew out a volume of tore woefully ak in proportion to the number of men in Mo it? likely not. son for this disparity of volun is due, in many cases, to the fact th bandmasters take advantage of the ocexsiens to pad their bands with dummies. These le ‘ious t re t some pecial Jers, however scrupulous and con- ym for musicians for the can supply. ‘To meet this: ine-« plit up their orginal sei pe at other times, ac- cept orders furnishing. > mazd, thereto, | A“HEARTY LAUGHL organizations into as many sections as there are bands to be sent oat. ‘Then they add whatever floating, players they find available, “ring: in’? the {send these padded bands off to the dummies to fill out, These dummies, a bandman told the writer, but unfortunately, their instruments 1 the a double ~ bassoon, they cannot utilize these harmony 1 street bund, Nevertheless, these dum- mies are as well qu till they are red in the fa the artists on th lar instruments. 1 differer the ti dummies They cours mal sim: ply mark time. Moreover, tion is the liste and at the ians, who otherwise would ad this decep- ated by street, arely penet ers in the time, musi- ii aw their pay when nd be id the we is over, everybody is satistied. MEAT MOTHERS’ MEETING, ist stop feed Mrs, Bluel al ot REFLECTIONS OF A CLUB MAN. WORD to the wife is suflicient— to start In who row. marriage hes where fears to tread, It is a wise débu- tante who never shows how ** wise"? she is. In union there is divorce, The way of the transyressor is to South Dake It is better to have loved smd lost than to have to pay atinicey. When poverty enocks ut the door lo ut to dinner with ano her in a A widow and her yaa uti weeds are soon parted, withat FOR RACING YACHTSMEN. HOSA OS Sally THE YOUNG LADIES CLUB. J A fel kind. comicbooks.com