Judge, 1911-05-06 · page 13 of 28
Judge — May 6, 1911 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains several satirical pieces and cartoons about gender relations and social absurdities circa early 20th century. **"Seeing Nellie Home"** is a poem about romantic disappointment—a man escorts an attractive woman home, only to discover she's slovenly and unkempt indoors, revealing her public facade. **"An Unfortunate Combination"** mocks rural business practices where one person combines unrelated trades. The humor peaks with a sign reading "UNDERTAKER AND SEEDSMAN / Do Your Planting Now"—a darkly comic double entendre suggesting corpse-planting. **Other pieces satirize contemporary concerns**: women's fashion (oversized "pantaloon skirts"), suffragettes (women demanding voting rights), and romantic fickleness. **"Dangerous Banking"** jokes that a woman hides her "pin money" (discretionary cash) in her hose, creating a physical injury—satirizing both women's financial dependence and their improvisation. The overall tone reflects early-20th-century attitudes: women are unpredictable, vain, and intellectually limited, yet financially resourceful within household constraints.
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Seeing Nellie Home. By JORN D. WELLS. WEET, she used to be, and pret- risa Neat as wax from foot to dome. Oh, those nights, as chosen escort, I was seeing Nellie home! But she really was a sloven! How she needed brush and comb On that night when, unexpected, I was seeing Nellie, home! An Unfortunate Combination. T IS not uncommon in a good many sections of the United States, espe- cially in the remote country districts, for business men to combine all sorts of trades in their pursuit of the elusive dollar. We thus find blacksmiths some- times announcing their readiness not only to shoe horses and repair wagons, but to supply their patrons as well with patent medicines, canned goods, and all the latest novels. One cobbler that we wot of was not only a maker of shoes, but ran a prosperous real-estate agency and cigar stand as well, all of which was fitting enough. But we must confess to something in the nature of a chill re- cently, when passing through a certain hamlet which shall be nameless, to ob- serve the sign of an individual who varied the duties of the undertaker with those of a garden seedsman. A sign reading: JOHN GRIMM UNDERTAKER AND SEEDSMAN Do Your Planting Now is, to say the least, infelicitous. SUFFRAGETTE at home is worse than two that roam. EVERY PAMILY SHOULD OWN AN OSTRICH. ly Yi THE FICKLENESS OF THE FAIR SEX “ Why, Effie, are you eating that candy? I thought Bobby gave it to you for a keepsake."” “Oh, that was yesterday.”” A Delusion. A THINKER deep, who lived from FA life apart, Called woman a delusion. If ’tis so, Perhaps it may explain why man will go In chase of her and hug her to his heart. Those Wide Cuts. HE ‘‘pantaloon skirt’? may be all right, But of all the dunce buffoons It is the chap Whose trousers lap— The man with the skirt pantaloons. Love. OVE is not for sale, but fair imitations may be purchased at exorbi- tant rates. It’s a long love that has no turning. A woman loves a man; a man loves women. There are as many kinds of love as there are kinds of people. An idle love is the devil’s workshop. Love can live ona crust and starve on pie. Passion is the scum of love. Ht Dangerous Banking. HE TOLD him the tale of her woes. The surgeon declared it unmatched. Her pin money, banked in her hose, Her ankle had fearfully scratched. A CERTAIN UNCERTAINTY. “You can never tell what a woman is going to do next.” “And if you could, she would probably do something else."" Legal Advice. “ Y DEAR man,” explained the young lawyer, “‘if you can’t get over the matter, get under it, for that may be your only way of getting around it” . comicbooks.com