Judge, 1910-11-26 · page 16 of 24
Judge — November 26, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This Judge page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **"The Style to Which She Was Accustomed"** (top) satirizes wealthy American society's class anxieties. It contrasts an old-money family (Vanderpeyster—suggesting Dutch aristocracy) with a nouveau-riche woman (Mabel Noorich—name obviously mocking "new rich"). The joke targets the gaudy fashion choices of newly wealthy Americans: her pink velvet bathing suit with gold braid and spangles at Newport scandalized even jaded reporters. The satire mocks both the pretensions of the newly rich and the snobbery of established families who view such ostentation as vulgar. **"Don Quixote Up-to-Date"** (bottom comics) is a comedic parody updating Cervantes' classic tale to modern urban settings—replacing windmills and giants with actual city problems: dragons become subway stations, and Sancho and Don Quixote encounter crowded transit, petty criminals, and literal cave-like spaces. The humor lies in applying quixotic idealism to mundane modern urban life.
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The Style to Which She Was Accustomed. By HORACE DODD GASTIT. E CAME of one of the oldest families in the country. His sires for many generations back had been men of achievement and of affairs. They had not laid by a very large fortune for posterity, but in the character and quality of their lives they had left Vanderpeyster a heritage of price- less value and a sufficiency in the way of worldly goods to keep the wolf from the door. As for Mabel Noorich, no one could question her beauty, nor could any one properly criticise her on the score of the sweet, womanly virtues. There were those who looked askance upon her taste i which was, to say the least, peculiar. combinations of color in her gowns and hats were such as to make the judicious griev and when she appeared at Newport in a bathing suit of pink panne velvet, with gold braided edgings and an overplus of spangles rioting along its vociferous length, even the reporters gasped. Nevertheless, Vanderpeyster loved her. There was a certain demure loveliness about her that attracted him strongly, and behind the awful clouds of her sartorial ec- 1, "Look you, friend Sancho! There before us is the great Watch-your-step Dragon's cave. Fol- low me into its terrifying depths and you shall wit- ness the most stupendous battle fought by mortal 4, —— Odds flapjacks! ‘The inexorable dragon hath swallowed up the whole bunch. But, fear not, I shall rend a hole in the demon’s side to let them escape ! —— Aer noae SMELL YE SHALL KNOW THEM."" “Did you get his number, Pat ? “Wat do I care for his number centricities he, with his loves able to see the silver lining of true woman- hood, It was a long time before he was able to get his own mother to consent to 's eye, was DON QUIXOTE UP-TO-DATE. 2. ——It isas I expected. Yon wicked jailer is penning that vast multitude behind iron bars to feed them to the monstrous dragon which is now approaching with a thunderous roar.—— I can tell him anywhere by the smell."" the alliance that had become the cherished object of his life, but even here he found no objection to the girl herself. It was Mrs. Noorich, Mabel's mother, that she 3. —— Avast and avaunt, wicked ogre! Release those prisoners instant- ly, or by the tarry knothole in my father's wooden leg, I shall let daylight 5, —— The thing moveth off with a fierce swift- ness, proving beyond the peradventure of a doubt that ‘it is sore afraid of me, and I have got its goat.—— good sooth, there is a strange spell upon this cave! A queer tickling feeling doth consume me, and I am sore bewitched !"" comicbooks.com