Judge, 1910-12-31 · page 11 of 27
Judge — December 31, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**"Newspaper Row"** depicts men reading newspapers on a New York street bench—a satirical look at public life in the city. **The jury duty anecdote** mocks how people escape civic obligations through clever schemes; the man's sympathetic story about his wayward son amuses the judge enough to dismiss him. **"Bargains"** satirizes the women's suffrage movement, suggesting that when women gain political power, even market prices will be artificially inflated—a common anti-suffrage jab implying women are poor economic managers. **"The Problem of the Kiss"** presents romantic mathematics as absurdist humor, playing with equations where X represents kisses, ultimately endorsing unlimited affection ("X ad libitum"). **The magazine cover suggestion** mockingly proposes a ladies' magazine entirely devoted to pleasing men, with articles by "thrice-divorced wives" and spinsters—satirizing both women's magazines and their presumed obsession with male approval. **"Passing a Good Thing Along"** is a gentle joke about a child literally applying his mother's proverb advice to prayer, misunderstanding her lesson about persistence.
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“NEWSPAPER ROW "—A WELL-KNOWN PLACE IN NEW YORK. One Way To Avoid Jury Duty. (THERE are a great many ways devised for avoiding jury duty. The story is told of one man who was noted in the county because of the badness of his son. Finding that there was no way of escape from serving, he had an obliging friend telegraph him at the Court house. The telegram read: ‘*Your son is no better. The judge was so amused at the ingenuity that he let the man off. Bargains. WHEN suffragettes shall rule the Reform, I beg to state, Will see $2 votes marked down To $1.98. town, (THE MAN who persists in going round with a chip on his shoulder is in danger sooner or later of losing his whole block. “SO HE'S A LUCKY DUCK, EH?" “YES, HE LIVES WITH A FAMILY OF WHICH EVERY MEMBER IS A VEGETARIAN.” The Problem of the Kiss. By ELIZABETH PENN THORNE. Let X = 1 kiss, What say you? Well, then X +1 = kisses, 2. Now X—1 = time lost. Or, perhaps it = A bit of a frost! X«1, As you know, = just one, That seems rather slow! If we -- X by 1, It’s in the same class, But better than none! Can't we do better ? Now let us see, . . Yes! X ad libitum, . . Ecstasy! SUGGESTION FOR THE COVER OF A LADIES" MAGAZI ST M A M Mainty About Mea MENUARY WHAT; 1911 READ IN THIS NUMBER. WHAT MEN LIKE IN WOMEN By a Thrice-Divorced Wite. MEN—HOW TO PLEASE THEM By A. Spinster. DISHES MEN LIKE By Miss Wedwed. SHOULD WOMEN DO THE COURTING? A Symposium, Net INTERESTING DEPARTMENTS Beautiful Men of the Stage, etc.. etc. Circulation more than 3 Million Copies Weekly Passing a Good Thing Along. ‘TRE MOTHER of a small boy had spent a long time that day explaining to him the meaning of ‘the proverb, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’” That night she was much astonished to hear him pray: “Dear God, make me a good boy. And if you don’t succeed, try, try again.’’ A NEW FIELD FOR SIGNS. comicbooks.com