Judge, 1910-04-30 · page 11 of 16
Judge — April 30, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"Love Finds a Way"**: A domestic comedy sketch mocking courtship propriety. A father objects to his daughter's lengthy kiss goodnight with a suitor named Eugene, but she justifies it because Eugene stammers—implying the long kiss compensates for his speech impediment. **"Caloric Color Combinations"**: Harvey Peake satirizes fashion's absurd trend of naming colors after burnt vegetables ("Ashes of Iris," "Burnt Orange"). He ridicules this by suggesting increasingly ridiculous vegetable-based color names and mockingly proposes burning an entire market cart to create a plaid pattern called "Cremated Truck." **"The Agriculturists' Paper" (cover suggestion)**: A satirical fake magazine cover mocking wealthy farmers' pretensions. Article titles like "Should a Farmer Keep More Than Three Autos?" and "Europe's Most Delightful and Expensive Places" mock prosperous farmers adopting urban luxury lifestyles, contradicting traditional rural simplicity. The subtitle "How to Keep the City Man Away from the Farm" suggests ironic concern about losing agricultural workers to city attractions.
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“LOVE FINDS A WAY." Here, Annabel, I said kiss him good-night, but not such a long kiss.” * Yes, papa; but Eugene stammers.”” CALORIC COLOR COMBINATIONS. By HARVEY PEAKE A FASHION journal declares ** Ashes of Iris '’ to be the smart- est new shade. This is not the first time we have taken our new color tones from incinerated vegetable matter. There were ‘‘burnt orange”’ and ‘* baked onion,”’ for instance. If we accept ‘‘Ashes of Iris,"” which is a sort of mongrel mixture of purple and blue, why not ‘‘Cinders of Cabbage,”’ which would probably be green; ‘‘Smoke of Squash,’’ that sounds as if it would come out yellow; ‘‘ Scorched Prune,’’ that would blend well with the peculiar complexions of boarding- house cooks, and ‘‘ Flame of Fennel,” that might run through the whole gamut of color. Then if a scheme for a many-colored plaid or stripe of the A LESSON IN NATURAL HISTORY—A PACHY-DERM. same character were desired, what wonderful results might be obtained by setting fire to a market gardener’s cart. Such a combination might be called ‘‘ Cremated Truck. MOVING-DAY TRAGEDY. H, WHERE on earth's that moving man? I want to grab him, club, and throttle! He 's left the in-dis-pen-sa-ble! 1 cannot find the baby’s bottle! Ix THE springtime—‘* Ecce Hobo"! SUGGESTION FOR THE COVER OF A FARMERS’ MAGAZINE. THE AGRICULTURISTS’ PAPER Vou. 002 SOMEPLACE, SOMETIME Do Not Fail To Read in This Number: SHOULD A FARMER KEEP MORE THAN THREE AUTOS? A symposium, by successful farmers from Indiana, lowa, Illinois, Kansas, ete. HOW TO INVEST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ‘The third of the series of these helpful little papers. THE CARE OF MAHOGANY FURNITURE Of intense interest to present-day farmers. THE LATEST STYLES OF HAIR DRESSING Something of interest to the farmer's wife. EUROPE S MOST DELIGHTFUL AND EXPENSIVE PLACES Particularly timely now that vacation time is near HOW TO KEEP THE CITY MAN AWAY FROM THE FARM A practical discussion of this important question, with a resume of the means pursued by some success- ful farmers to keep the city youths in the city. PRICE, ONE DOLLAR A COPY CIRCULATION OVER THREE MILLION COPIES comicbooks.com