Judge, 1911-01-07 · page 11 of 26
Judge — January 7, 1911 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from the satirical magazine Judge contains multiple brief humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines. **"Just My Luck to Have Married a Suffragette Hen"** (top): A rooster complains about marrying a suffragette hen—referencing the women's suffrage movement. The joke equates women's rights activism with nagging domesticity, a common anti-suffrage trope of the era. **"Where Ignorance Is Bliss"**: A man marries a woman without recognizing her later—mocking male obliviousness. **"Highly Probable"**: A joke about someone playing chess-by-mail making only one move per week—absurdist humor about slow-moving correspondence. The remaining pieces ("Appearances," "Dopes for Doctors," "Airy Persiflage," "A Woman's Reason") are brief satirical quips about deception, medical practitioners, aviation, and gender relations—typical Judge content mixing topical references (aviation, Christian Science, suffrage) with everyday social observation. The overall tone is lighthearted mockery of contemporary life and emerging social movements.
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Ser Ry nN “JUST MY LUCK TO HAVE A MARRIED A SUFFRAGETTE HEN!" Where Ignorance Is Bliss. oe E MARRIED the girl he first saw drying her hair in her back yard.’” “Love at first sight, eh?” “Not much; he never knew it was the same girl.’’ Appearances “DoT look like I dida’t have any sense f"— Hem, Victor Murdoch of Kamias. By WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. Ts any one should say so, Vic., Is quite beyond believing; But then, you know, appearances Are oftentimes deceiving. HIGHLY PROBABLE. fficer, what ’s all that excitement about over there !"" ‘There "s a chap playing a game of chess by correspondence, and he's making his second move this week.”” Dopes for Doctors. By CHARLES IRVIN JUNKIN. WEEN the patient is ill, he bubbleth thanksgiving; but when he is abroad again, he babbleth of extortion and seeketh a way of escape. A bread pill for the neurasthenic and a Latin prescription for the gouty Croesus; but hypnotism by any other name is just as expensive as Christian Science. The night bell for the young medico, and the poverty-stricken patient for the unknown; but the Great One picketh the ripe cherries as he listeth. There is peace for the surgeon and balm for the physician, where life ceaseth from troubling and Fra Elbertus is at rest. Airy Persiflage. By CAROLYN WELLS. eo HAT’S become of Larry?” “A-little flyer in wheat.”” “I knew that man’d be sorry If he dabbled in the Street.” “Oh, no! The chap was trying His home-made aeroplane, And o'er a wheat field flying, He broke down in the grain.”” A Woman’s Reason. soy,” asks the inquisitive per- son, ‘‘do you enjoy having some one tell you that you are pretty, when you know you are not? Does it make you believe that you are?’’ ‘‘No,’’ she answers readily. ‘‘But it makes me believe that he believes 1 am.”” comicbooks.com