Judge, 1910-06-25 · page 9 of 25
Judge — June 25, 1910 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This *Judge* magazine page contains three distinct pieces of social satire: **"That Summer Girl"** mocks the superficiality of high society. A beautiful young woman attracts numerous suitors, yet the piece cynically notes she remains unmarried by her third social season because she lacks money—despite being "a society girl." The satire targets both the phoniness of society editors (who praise women they're paid to promote) and young men's foolish pursuit of romance regardless of financial incompatibility. **"A Case of Skin"** is a brief joke about a farmer claiming immunity from mosquitoes, playing on the absurdity of tall tales. **"The Yarns of Captain Fibb"** is a six-panel tall tale where a sea captain describes collecting various oils during a storm, dumping them overboard, which miraculously calms the sea. It's gentle absurdist humor—exaggerated sailor mythology with no satirical target. The page emphasizes period anxieties about marriage, class, and wealth among the leisured classes that *Judge*'s affluent readership would recognize.
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JUDGE THAT SUMMER GIRL. D° YOU see the girl? Is she not a homely girl? She is about the girl? Has some accident hap- not a homely girl. On the contrary, she is extremely pened to her? Not at all; but an ac- pretty. The society editor says she is ‘‘ phenomenally beauti- cident will shortly happen to the young ful.’ Is the society editor a gentleman? No; the society men, and they will be all mussed up. editor is a woman, Then how is it possible What causes the ecci- for her to say such lovely things about any Ks dent? The girl. Acci- other woman? She is paid a salary for y ZL dents of this sort fre- writing “ Pleasant Personals about Promi- f YAMA: quently happen to young men nent People."” y of very affectionate dispositions. . > Why are there so ¢ 4°? y Is the girl toblame? She is [revere (ervey many young men gathered <4 i hy not. They all want to marry her, oo and they all cannot; but they never think of that until it is too late and they have got the bump that musses them up. Why do they not keep away from the danger line? They are unable. The love of danger is inherent in every brave man, and the danger of love does not scare them alittle bit, When they have grown older and wiser they are different. At least, they are unless they are very rich and very old. However, there is not a great deal of danger if they are very, very rich and the girls are up-to- date girls who love better the things which wealth can supply than those which it cannot. Is this that sort of a girl? As this is her third season in so- : ciety and she has not yet chosen from A CASE OF SKIN. among those likely youngsters who have The new boarder—'* What the deuce do you mean by advertising that you are not bothered by mos- offered themselves, the chances are that quitoes ?"" (Bang! biff! slap!) : e : Farmer Khino—* Well, mister, it's the bonest truth, I've lived here all my life, and ain't never ‘She is. It is a shame, is it not? Oh, no; she is a society girl without money. been bit by a mosquito yet.” THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB. 1, “* We wuz roundin’ the Hom when we run in- 2. —— Well, it got wuss and wuss, ter the worst storm I ever see. ‘The waves went and if somethin’ wuzn't done purty pipes all hands on deck to gather to- clean over the mainmast, and we tossed about soon the tight little craft would be gether all the ile they could find splintered to slivers. —— aboard ship.— \ == 2Tm 4, —— Purty soon we has a fine collection of hair 5. — Then we dumps the hull mess 6. —— Blow me tight, me lads! that wuz a won- ile, cod liver ile, machine ile, olive ile, and a doz- overboard inter the angry sea! — derful mixture. In half a jiffy the sea around us en other kinds of ile, which we mixes all together wuz asca'm as a mill pond, and we wuz in a in the empty water butt —— safe harbor till the storm ‘blowed over.”" comicbooks.com