Judge, 1910-10-22 · page 3 of 16
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This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"The Pajama Cure"** (top left): A humorous essay by Floyd G. Jones advocating pajamas as a health cure-all, claiming they improved his various ailments. The tone is satirical commentary on contemporary health fads and medical quackery. 2. **"Ballad of a Terror"** (top right): A poem by Carolyn Wells mocking a girl's "bobble skirt"—a fashionable but restrictive garment of the era. The satire critiques both the impractical fashion and the writer's difficulty composing poetry about it. 3. **"Wanted—An Improvement"** (bottom cartoon): Shows a woman at a typewriter in an office while a man reads nearby. The caption jokes that they've replaced the office's self-playing piano with a self-playing typewriter—satirizing workplace modernization and mechanical efficiency trends of the early 1900s.
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tal dy t 50 ite —re mous f you wean JUDGE The Pajama Cure. By ELLIS 0. JONES. HREE years ago my life was despaired of by an osteopath, an allopath, a homeopath, a hydropath, eight sana- toriums, two sanitariums, and a phys- ical culturist. I had one foot in the grave, spent all my time reading epitaphs and undertakers’ advertisements, and all my heirs quit work. One day, however, I was passing a haberdashery, when my eye was caught by the sign: TRY OUR PAJAMAS. NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL. As a last resort, I went in and bought a suit of a light pink shade. I took them home and put themon at once. The next morning I felt much better. Inthe short space of one week I felt so much improved that I could stand a stronger color, so I went back and bought a suit of crushed maroon, with light green stripes running both ways. Two weeks later I found I was strong enough to wear a suit of Chantecler red, with lavender cres- cents, without overtaxing my system. Since then I have never been without a complete assortment of pajamas in the house. Although I have entirely regained my health and seldom find it necessary to wear pajamas in the daytime, I still wear them at night as a precautionary measure. I therefore uahesitatingly recommend pa- jamas to all sufferers, and especially to those who suffer from the heat. If these Ballade of a Terror. By CAROLYN WELLS. LOVE to write ballades of girls, In lines that are lilting and light; I touch on their ‘‘sun-tangled curls, I refer to their “eyes, starry bright.”” I mention their gowns’ filmy white, Perhaps with a gold zone engirt; But, good heavens! what can I indite To the girl with the hobble skirt? Long trains, with curved swishes and swirls, My fancy pursues in glad flight; And soft satin, 'broidered with pearls, Hangs in lines which my raptures in- vite. Why, even the sheath gown, though tight, Could not my bland pen disconcert; But Poesy shrinks in affright Se ———= From the girl in the hobble skirt. a 5 CANNING TIME IN BUGVILLE, “For goodness sake, Maria, the next time you buy peaches to pat up, insist upon freestones.’” latter will put on a pair of pajamas after each meal during the summertime, they will find wonders worked thereby. New Mother Goose. IGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY, my black hen! She lays eggs for gentlemen— Gentlemen who store them away And ask a price I cannot pay. Though the daughter of hundreds of earls, is far from a beautiful sight; ike the meanest of churls, But I cannot to her play the knight. Right gladly I’d praise, if I might; Alas! but the truth I can blurt: On the earth she’s a blot and a blight— The girl with the hobble skirt. L'ENVOL. Oh, Muse, though in rhythm I delight, ‘And though practice has made me expert, My poetic feet stumble when I write Of the girl in the hobble skirt. WANTED—AN IMPROVEMENT. won We have the self-playin~ piano in the parlor, now give us the self-playing typewriter in the office. comicbooks.com