Judge, 1911-04-15 · page 8 of 24
Judge — April 15, 1911 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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The page contains three satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **Top cartoon ("À la Kipling"):** References Rudyard Kipling's quote about human detritus. The sketch shows fashionable women gathered around what appears to be a social gathering, satirizing the vanity and superficiality of high society. **"Cynical Citizen Saysos":** A collection of witty one-liners by Charles C. Jones mocking conventional wisdom about love, competition, and gender relations. Notable: "Man's inhumanity to other men is something fierce, but it has nothing on woman's inhumanity to herself"—reflecting period attitudes about women's supposed self-destructiveness. **"Impudence" anecdote:** A photographer's assistant refuses to send photographs of Mrs. "Shoppan-Rush" without her sitting for them, despite her expecting service-on-demand like grocers provide. The joke satirizes nouveau-riche entitlement and the absurdity of expecting photographers to produce images from nothing. **Bottom verse:** Crude gender commentary about women's vocalizations and behavior. The page reflects turn-of-century attitudes toward wealth, gender, and social pretension.
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A LA KIPLING “* Some rags, some bones, and hanks of hair." CYNICAL CITIZEN SAYSOS. By CHARLES C. JONES. ILENCE may be golden, but there would be mighty little satisfaction in clinking two silences together. “Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us"’—to see also the mental phenomena that literary psycholo- gists observe in the minds of helpless heroines. Faint heart never won fair lady, but many a fair lady has won a faint heart, and many a faint heart has nearly fainted at the unfairness thereof. Competition is the life of trade, but not every man is live enough to trade competition for success, Man’s inhumanity to other men is something fierce, but it has nothing on woman’s inhumanity to herself. THEIR SIMILARITY. “ Say, Bun, why is pork-sausage like a woodchuck?"* “ *Cause it 's ground-hog."” Love is the light of the world, but poverty is a poor oil that will smoke up the globe, and too much money seems to be a high wind. A man’s home may be his castle, but his castle isn’t always his home. A magazine poet's idea of heaven is that it must be a place where nobody reads advertisements, Impudence. sors THIS Snappem, the photographer?”’ coos a sweet voice over the 'phone. “This is Mr. Snappem’s assistant, madam,” replies that worthy. “Well, please send me half a dozen photographs of myself.’’ “Yes, madam. With pleasure. Who is this, please?”’ “Mrs. Shoppan-Rush.’” “But we haven’t a negative of you, madam." “Well, send me half a dozen photo- graphs, anyway.’’ “Of yourself?” “Of course!’’ “You will have to come to the gallery and sit for them, madam.’’ “How silly! Inever heard such im- pudence! Why, the grocer and the meat man and the stores all send anything I want when I order it on the 'phone! DO NOT like a woman when She chirps and cackles like a hen; But when she rubbers like a swan, Oh, then it is that I am on! comicbooks.com