Judge, 1911-06-03 · page 10 of 24
Judge — June 3, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early-1900s attitudes toward marriage and gender, using mock-Socratic dialogue. The main cartoon presents philosophy in cynical terms: **Faith** is a woman accepting a man; **Hope** is her marrying him; **Charity** is her tolerating married life afterward. The joke's bite comes from the Philosopher refusing to answer whether he speaks from "theory or observation"—his wife sits nearby trimming a "hair shirt with barbed wire" for his birthday, suggesting his own marriage validates this bleak view. Secondary items mock social hypocrisy: a clergyman is sent to Europe because his congregation finds him *too honest* about marriage responsibilities (discouraging proposals); a traffic accident victim is humiliated not by injuries but by being hit by a cheap car worth only $750. The overall theme: **marriage is a trap for women, who sacrifice happiness for duty**—a common satirical position in this era's humor magazines, reflecting contemporary anxieties about matrimony and gender roles.
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From the Dialogues of Holeproof Sokrates. «¢()H, SOCKRATES, mighty Master of Sagacity,”’ said Omar Kha- yoodle, seating himself at the Philoso- pher’s feet, ‘ you tell me what Faith is?” “Tt is that qu heart of a woman when she accepts a man,’ replied Sockrates. “And how, oh, Holeproof One,”” said Marcus O'- Ptutt, ‘would you define Hope?” “It is that quali- ty that possesses the heart of a wo- man when she marries the man she has accept- ed,’’ returned the Philosopher, with a smile. “And Chari- ty?” queried Toothpictetus. “It is that quality which the heart of a woman must possess if she is to live comfortably with the man she has accepted after she has married him,”’ said Sockrates. And do you speak from theory or ob- servation, oh, Wise One?’ asked Omar Khayoodle. “I decline to answer, on the ground y which possesses the Aviators should keep at a reasonable altitude in crossing the ocean “* Our bosom friend.’’ that it would tend to incriminate me,”’ replied the Philosopher, with an uneasy glance at his wife, Mary Anntippe, who sat in one corner of the stadium, trim- ming a hair shirt with barbed wire for her husband's birthday present. RULE NO. 987 A Matter of Economy. “\{JE HAVE decided to get up a purse to send you and your wife to Europe for the summer," said Mrs. Van Scadds. “That’ is very kind of you, indeed,” the Rev. Mr. Whitechoker; “but, really, I hardly feel as if I needed a rest just now.”’ “Well, we want you to go, anyhow. It will be cheaper to send you than for all the rest of us to go.”” In Philadelphia. “ HOM is the flag at half-mast for?” asked a visitor, addressing a policeman and pointing to the flag ona public building. “‘Dunno,’’ was the reply. “It’s been that way all day. Guess it just slipped down.”” replied ECHNICALITY is nine points in the law. Humiliating. "* GROANED the sufferer, ‘‘I don't mind the bruises so much. It’s the humiliation of the thing that is hardest upon me.” “*But,”’ his friend said, ‘‘you were on the right side of the road and keeping within the speed limit. The papers agree that it was- n't your fault.’”’ “Yes, yes, I know; but the fel- low who ran into me was driving a little old machine that couldn’t have cost more than seven hundred and fifty dollars when it was new."’ Frightened Out of It. Maggie—'* Why did they make a in minis- your change ters at church? Annie —*Why, the former one spoke so often on the responsibilities of marriage that none of the unmarried men in the congregation would propose. "” PEEK-A-Boo Waists make woeful want. Sh.corehetia= FIDO'S BOGIE MAN. Small boy—"* He's guaranteed never to run away again, ma’am. I took him down tosee Pumpernickel’s wienerwurst works."” comicbooks.com