Judge, 1909-08-07 · page 6 of 16
Judge — August 7, 1909 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This *Judge* magazine page contains two satirical pieces about late 19th/early 20th-century American life: **Top cartoon ("From Best Soil")**: A vendor selling produce claims his potatoes were "raised next door to the priest," implying proximity to the clergy makes them virtuous. The joke mocks Irish immigrant stereotypes and the tendency to invoke religious authority for mundane commerce. **Main story ("The Old Grad's Research Work")**: An alumnus returns to his college to investigate reports of freshman hazing. He disguises himself as a naive new student using theatrical makeup and deliberately unfashionable clothing (striped trousers, red padlock shoes, polka-dot socks). The satire targets the prevalence of hazing as an acceptable college tradition while mocking the obvious disguise—the sophmores quickly identify and grab him anyway. The piece's tone suggests hazing was common enough to warrant investigative concern, yet treated as inevitable student behavior. The accompanying "Hints to Good Dressers" and "Cheer Up" sections appear to be filler content typical of era magazines.
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FROM BE! Mrs. Flyun—* Be them good pertaties ? Vender—** Shure they be. Ivery wan ov thim was raised nixt dhoor to the pri HINTS TO GOOD DRESSERS. THE OLD GRAD'S RESEARCH WORK. OOD dressers will do well not to take up with any HE INVESTIGATES PRESENT-DAY HAZING. G of the reform m Tj HE OLD graduate, having seen a lot of stuff in the newspapers + f } about the shameful hazing of freshmen at his alma mater, took a trip back to investigate matters first hand, He site of a good dresser, brought an actor’s make-up box along with him to the college In order to obtain the best results, one should pre- town, and, as soon as he had arrived at his hotel, assumed the pare a careful schedule as to just what time of day each td rosy checks that he remembered helped typify the college \# hooked and each shoe is buttoned, buckled, or laced, an newly off the farm. He had purposely neglected as the case may be. We know of a lady who, in this ; is hair for several weeks past, so that it was now in perfect way, was enabled to dress nine times a day, whereas ‘ disorder. At a local clothier’s he purchased a pur- fore she could only dress eight times a day Say e serge coat, a pair of kangaroo-striped peg-top trousers, a k shirt, a green tic, a white hat, black and yellow polka- j dot socks, and a pair of red padlock shoes. In appearance if not in age—he was the genuine freshman article. With a lighted cigarette held listlessly between his lips, that night he started toward the campus. Disguised as a freshman, he would see for himself whether the hazing was as fierce as the newspapers claimed, If it was, he would take the matter before the board of regents. His alma mater must no longer be disgraced by outrageous sophomore misconduct. A professor wear- ing a silk hat and carrying an armful of books, and a washerwoman with a basket of laundry, reminded him of his own college days. Presently he heard the old r** Rah, rah, rah!"* and soon in lock-step a gang of collegians rounded prner, ‘The leader started a song: frage. These mov. it, but they take time, and time is the first requi- It is considered bad form to have "re going to the hamburger show, the elephant and the wild bazoo; And we'll all stick together, In fair or stormy weather, For we're going to see the whole show through."* Of one thing the old grad was sure--they had not grown less poetical since , even if, as the newspapers charged, they had grown more rough. He his own da They noted his verdant m p, and grabbed him, thought was spied. Drink oF fhe poor “F ; areas ass would cat. and his adua set on doing original freshman research work, so it would not nine lives! At last he had it figured out: '09 plus four years. The sophs c ure him. ** Nineteen thirteen,"’ answered the old grad.