Judge, 1910-10-15 · page 8 of 18
Judge — October 15, 1910 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor page from *Judge* magazine featuring multiple short jokes and satirical cartoons, likely from the early 1900s based on references to "hobble skirts" and suffragettes. Key content includes: **Social satire**: "But She's Not Here Yet" mocks the "model suffragette"—a woman claiming to want equality and perform men's labor, yet the joke suggests she's all talk. This reflects anti-suffrage sentiment common in the era. **Gender humor**: Multiple jokes target women's roles: "Any a woman's life is an open cook-book" and "Love is an intoxicant" suggest women's limited spheres and irrationality. **Other jokes** include mild puns (the "electric" opera "Joan of Arc" is "Light, of course") and domestic humor about weight inspectors and manicuring yards. **The cartoons** illustrate these concepts with simple line drawings—a woman doing household chores, a rooster with suffragette wives. Overall, the page represents early-20th-century satirical humor targeting feminism and women's changing roles, though by modern standards the "jokes" appear simply as expressions of gender prejudice rather than actual humor.
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NOTHING IN THEM. “Do you mean to say that you haven't heard the news? Byron Up-to-date. AID OF ATH Ga., ere we flirt, Change, oh, change that hobble skirt. OVE is an intoxicant age there is no prohibition move: JUDGE Over the Fireplace. Py CHARLES F. LUMAHS. OVE and a Fire, y lit; But to keep Wood to No Short Weight. TINE order hat been passed to weigh the archor. “Oh, that's all right, cap, said the new recruit. ‘* The in- spector of weights and meascres was round just before w port, and he said it was all r Electric. “ HAT kind of opera is ‘Joan of Arc’? “ Light, of course.” ANY a woman's life is an open cook-book. A TAKING NEIGHBOR Farmer (proudly) —"' See what fine ‘taters Lazy Jef (complacent| Hub! Ab But She’s Not Here Yet. by ROY K. MOULTON HE TALKS no silly persiflage. She'd just as soon disclose her She's anxious to bear all the hardships that a man must stand, Sue loves to tote a dinner pail and work all day to earn the kale to keep the family living on the best that's in the land, Sue loves to leave her bed and rout the bur- glars who may hang about. She likes to feed the furnace at the chilly break of tes on splitting wood. She peat the carpets good and stand off the collectors when they call to get their pay. Sue loves to manicure the yard, for mowing grass is not so hard. She likes tor angements for the credit at the stc likes to wear plain clothes and ha and doesn’t care for curls or rats or any of the silly things that women liked of yore, Sue loves to worry and night to keep finances running right, and stick around an office six days out of every week. Sue loves to make the garden grow and buy the coal and shovel snow and climb upon the kitchen roof to try and stop a leak. likes to stand up in the car and ride, it matters not how far. We've heard a lot about her, but she hasn't got here yet. Sue thinks the men have got a snap and wants todo like hub and pap. The lady we refer to is the model suffragette. Appropriately Named. GMT has a lovely baby girl The stork left her with a flutter. Smith named her Oleomarga+ rine, For he hadn't any but her. Original and Genuine. ADAM and Eve were the original fresh-air bathers --also the original vegetari- ans—also the original insur- gents. On the Gridiron. HOUGH to come back Some find it tough, A quarterback Is quite enough. A Conserver. tidate—** What a pretty , I favor conser- vation of kisses. Not the One Hoped For. THE sentimental gict_who waits and waits for the Black Knight to come along usually gets the black sheep. AN EVEN BREAK Rooster—"* Have L troubles? Oh, no! Four of my wives are suffragettes and the other four ain't."” No Uncommon Occurrence. By GRACE MCKINSTRY A large emerald said to be tea boars ia the main lobby covered yest ULL many a gem of purest ray serene Fair ladies buy upon account, no doubt; Full many a husband pays large bank-notes green For it, with protests—thus it’s kicked about. HE early book-agent catches the book- worm's pocketbook. OUR EXCHANGE BUREAU. Exchange Anything You Doo't Want for Something You Do. A SIDE-SPLITTER. Near-sighted croquet player—* Now for a corkiag split shot."” comicbooks.com