Judge, 1911-02-11 · page 8 of 24
Judge — February 11, 1911 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page collects several humor pieces satirizing domestic life and social pretension in early 20th-century America. **"A Life Job"** depicts a marriage negotiation where a woman, previously married, warns her suitor that accepting his proposal means endless domestic labor—"keeping you saved" becomes a lifetime job with no days off. The satire mocks both male helplessness and the exhausting, thankless nature of wives' domestic duties. **"The Borrowing Neighbor"** jokes about a man who avoids visiting because the neighbor has borrowed so many of his possessions that returning home reminds him of what he's lost. **"Dangerous Curiosity"** shows a nearsighted man unable to read a warning sign, leading to comedic disaster—satirizing human foolishness and the consequences of curiosity without caution. Other pieces include light verse about romantic sentimentality and observations about women's competitive shopping habits. The humor targets domestic friction, marital power dynamics, and middle-class anxieties—typical Judge magazine fare mocking everyday life absurdities.
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THE BORROWING NEIGHBOR. ** Say, John, yer haven't been over ter my home since my birthday gatherin’, jest a year ago ter-morrer."” “‘Ttain't that I have hard feelin’s ag'in’ you you have so confounded many things what belong: me that when I come it kind o' makes me homesick Love Song. (Poem found in a padded cell at Matteawan.) WHEN the sun is in the north, my dear, And the cow is on his nest, When the ring is in the pawnshop, dear, And the wheels in my head need rest, Oh, then I think of you, my dear! Oh, then I think of you! Yes, then I think of you, my dear! Ah, then I think of you! WOMAN'S whole shopping day is spoiled if on the way home she meets another woman who bought some- thing five cents cheaper than she did. A Life Job. ry} Rees "he said, “that my future is in your hands. If you re- se me my whole life will be “Yes; and if I accept you,” she bitterly replied, for she had been mar- ried before, ** you will probably never give me a chance to let up for a day in the business of keeping you saved!" DOG TALK. cat “ They call the big liners ocean greyhounds. I wonder what they ‘Il ter he aeroplanes ?"” ie terriers, probably Both in Same Boat. The Creation—Compensation. HE NEW cook, who had come into My ROBERT E. INNIS: i ; HAT dress has a thousand the household during the holidays me household:siaring:-the. holidays. All hooked but one asked ber mist - Yet her vigilance never dies “Where ban your son? I not seeing Till that one’s done. him round no more."" “My aor?!" Fepliéd the mation ae The peacock has a thousand eyes, My son?"’ replied the mistress pride- Me wife bat two: fully. ‘Oh, he has gone back to Yale. Yet the light of their beauty vies He could only get away long enough to When I am through. stay until New Year's Day, you see. I al him dreadfully, though.’’ Hicks—* A good woman can reform a Yas. I knowing yoost how you feel. — man.”* My broder, he ban in yail time since Picks —‘*But it takes an expert mo- T'ankgiving."” diste to reform a woman."* DANGEROUS CURIOSITY. ay 1, ‘Thain't got me spectickles with me. I wonder what 2. Thunder ‘n’ lightnin’! Why didn’t the blamed fools put that sign says over there."” it nearer shore where a fellow could read it !'" comicbooks.com