Judge, 1911-04-29 · page 9 of 26
Judge — April 29, 1911 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains small-town American humor from the early 1900s. "Early Spring Notes from Queehawkett" satirizes rural village life through exaggerated local announcements: a band so loud residents need ear cotton; a tourist house offering minimal upgrades (two rocking chairs); a hotel demanding key deposits because guests steal them; restaurants raising prices due to inflation; and a laundry charging overweight customers per-item instead of by the dozen because heavier patrons' washing cost more. The cartoons illustrate social themes: "The Extension Table" shows marital stages (newlyweds and fifth-year couples), while the duck-netting device mocks animal-cruelty prevention societies. A final joke depicts a wife suggesting her hat is more palatable to eat than his—implying it contains actual fruit, mocking feminine "domestic improvement." The humor relies on period-specific economic concerns, class anxieties, and gender dynamics rather than timeless comedy.
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EARLY SPRING NOTES FROM QUEEHAWKETT. (Prom the Queehawkett Blast.) HE SPRING rehearsals of the village band will be- gin on the common a week from next Tuesday night. We make this announcement early, so that nervous residents of Queehawkett will have ample time to lay in their regular supply of ear cotton before the noise reaches its height. The Squiggs House will open for visitors as usual upon the first of June, its comforts enhanced by two new rocking chairs for the front piazza. The office also has been refurnished with a brand- new waste basket and the walls decorated with a handsomely lithographed view of the Northern Pa- cific’s new time table, framed in gilt. The moose head which has hith- erto hung over the fireplace in the office has been transferred to the dining-room, where it will be used as a hat-rack hereafter, thus com- bining beauty with utility. Owing to the careless habit of some of its patrons of carrying away their room keys at the end of the season, the proprietors of the Dab- ney House will require a deposit from all guests using keys this sea- THE EXTENSION TABLE. ETTING—A SPORT OF THE FUTURE A high-speed decoy flyer designed to satisfy wild-duck hunters by netting the birds instead of riddling or maim- ing them with shot Approved by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ducks. son, save those who are willing to accept keys having a ten- pound dumbbell attached to them by means of a steel chain. On account of the increased cost of living, Messrs. Clab- by and Riddell, of the Howling Clam Tavern, have been obliged to raise the price of their popular ten-course shore dinner to twenty-five cents, instead of fifteen, at which rate they were available last year. No extra charge will be made, however, for pickles and other entrees of a similar sort. Mrs. Abbie E. Wigley, of High Street, will open her laundry on June 15th, taking washing by the dozen as usual, except in the case of patrons weighing over a hundred and seventy-five pounds, who will have to pay by the piece dur- ing the summer months. Mrs. Wigley has been forced to make this exception much against her own personal wishes, because of heavy losses on the wash of stout patrons who paid by the dozen last season. Now, Aren't You? (CARNEGIE made millionaires Till it became a bore; But you are willing, reader dear, To have him make one more. More Palatable. Mr. Benham—‘‘I'll eat my hat!” Mrs. Benham—‘‘Try mine, . FIPTH YEAR APTER MARRIAGE. dear; there’s some fruit on it.’” comicbooks.com