Judge, 1911-06-10 · page 5 of 24
Judge — June 10, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines practical summer advice with satirical humor typical of Judge magazine's style. The top illustration shows people in various states of summer distress—appearing overheated and uncomfortable in urban conditions. The main cartoon "Take the Car Ahead" depicts someone fleeing the oppressive city heat by automobile, likely referencing early 1900s aspirations for car ownership as escape from crowded, sweltering urban environments. The accompanying text offers tongue-in-cheek advice about staying cool: avoiding heavy foods, frequent ice baths, walking in shade, and greeting friends by slapping their sunburned arms. The right column presents a philosophical dialogue between characters discussing what defines "chief end of man" versus "woman"—likely social satire about gender roles and expectations of the era. Overall, the page satirizes summer discomfort while gently mocking period concerns and social conventions.
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HOT-WEAT ‘AKE things cool —- liquid, with cracked ice. The humidity in the air is heaviest in the hot-air stories in the daily news- papers. Husbands should spend an hour each day in the hot kitchen of the home in order to appreciate the electric fan at the office. Do not drink too much ice wa- ter, eat too much ice-cream, or put eracked ice in your bath, for it is better to die of the heat than to fall dead upon sight of the ice bill, Walk in the shade whenever Shady places can be found in every city. Always greet your friends by slapping them on their sunburned arms and shoul- ders and merrily ask them, ‘‘Is it hot enough for you?”” Don’t eat heavy, greasy food in the summer weather. Stick to lobster, terra- pin, bacon and eggs, potpies, and steaks, avoid- ing angel cake, possible. By DON CAMERON SHAFER. Saratoga chips, toast, cheese straws, and lady fingers. Take a hot bath every morning, fol- lowed by a cold plunge and a brisk rub- down with a cake of ice, then cool off for an hour in the refrigerator, and your HER CAUTIONS. blood will be in shape to last the day without boiling. Keep your temper even and sweet, practice these precautions, and you will be as cool as the fellows in the ad- vertisements of summer underwear in the late maga- zines. A Dialogue of Holeproof Sock- rates, “QTOW TELL N me, oh, Sockrates, in thy Holeproof Wis- dom, what is the chiefendof man?” asked Marcus O'Ptutt. “*Woman,”’ re- plied the Philoso- pher, without a moment’s hesita- tion. “And what, then, is the chief end of woman?”’ queried Toothpic- tetus. “*Man,’’ said the Philosopher in- stantly. “And can you tell us what should be the chief aim of both man and woman?’’ asked Marcus O’Ptutt. “To make both ends meet,”’ said Philosopher, ing a bumper of hemlock juice to the last splin- “TAKE THE CAR AHEAD." ter. comicbooks.com