Judge, 1910-03-05 · page 11 of 16
Judge — March 5, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains multiple satirical pieces mocking the high cost of living (likely early 20th century inflation). **Main Content:** The "Timely Notes on the High Cost of Living" section sarcastically suggests absurd economy measures—broiling birds from old hats, making flapjacks from brown flannel, and noting that "air inside" cakes costs nothing. The humor targets widespread economic hardship by exaggerating desperate cost-cutting to ridiculous extremes. **Other pieces** include: - A gender-role cartoon about a couple in a boat—she steers while he rows, a metaphor for wives controlling marriages while husbands do the labor - "The Roller Towel" poem mocking communal towels in public facilities (hotels, boarding houses), which travelers and Kansans objected to on hygiene grounds - A farmer-tramp exchange about "conserving water powers"—likely political satire referencing Progressive-era conservation debates The cartoons and text together satirize economic anxiety, domestic dynamics, and public health concerns of the era.
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hat. to the taste. THINGS NOT WHAT THEY SE Pouter pigeon—"" 1 do believe he thinks I've swallowed his golf ball.’ THE ETERNAL FEMININE. by ROSCUR GILMORE STOTT. WE SAT within a dainty skiff, While I my love made clear; Most manfully I pulled the oar- The fair one chose to steer. The years have flown. O’er life's rough sea We plunge through doubts and fears; And while I pull and puff and pull— She only sits and steers. ‘*Theve dots ate intended to give the gentle male reader atime and opportunity for tears Tramp—* JUDGE TIMELY NOTES ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. SUCCESSFUL game supper can be provided by broiling the bird on your wife’s last year’s If it tastes pulpy at first, pass it gently over the surface of the nutmeg grater a few times until it is thoroughly shredded, and season Be careful of your pet poodle these days. The high price of sau- sages may make the seas of life per- ilous to his frail bark. Camembert, Roquefort, Gorgon- zola, and Limburger cheese are no higher this year than last—not in flavor, anyhow. A very interesting flapjack can be made of an old piece of brown flannel or thick felting. When this is covered with a syrup made of mucilage and powdered sugar, you cannot tell it from the real thing with the naked eye. If you cannot have all you want, try to be content with a part. For instance, if you are fond of cream cakes, remember that even though the cream and the cake may be ex- pensive, the air inside costs nothing. If you can discipline your appetite to get along on that, you are allright. OETS and infants are wonderful beings, mostly because no one can understand what they say. REASONABLE PHILOSOPHY. Farmer—"* Say! why don't you jump into the water there and take a good wash ?"* "Cause I believe in the conservation of our water powers." “AN EDITION DE LUXE." THE ROLLER TOWEL. ir By GERTRUDE v0.) ENZIE the tollet towel of fond mem- ment statted last year by the tt) OLL on, thou stiff and dark old towel—roll! A hundred hands are wiped on thee each day ; Thou bearest mystic records, like a scroll, And finger-prints of all who passed thy way; And where be those that said thou shouldst not stay; The New York Traveling Men who bade thee hene The Kansas people, who did sternly say, “* Each his own towel—count not the expense." They pass—but thou still roll'st thy length im- ! comicbooks.com