Judge, 1911-06-24 · page 12 of 25
Judge — June 24, 1911 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking upper-class pretension and social hypocrisy circa early 1900s: **"She Understood Him"**: An elderly wealthy woman and her fortune-hunting suitor exchange brutal honesty—she appreciates his candor about marrying her money rather than loving her, calling him a "fool" if he claimed otherwise. The satire targets both mercenary courtship and the woman's cynical acceptance of it. **"Recessional—Toward the Surf"**: Appears to mock wealthy men's summer departures, with women and luggage leaving while men remain behind, "contentment in his guilty heart"—suggesting relief at escape from wives/social obligations. **"Fashion Proverbs"**: Mock aphorisms satirizing women's obsession with fashion as economically wasteful and psychologically controlling. **Central cartoon "Checkmate"**: Two working-class men discuss experiences; one references a coal mine, likely contrasting the wealthy's complaints with actual hardship. **"Frontier Hardships" and "Disgraceful"**: Mock wealthy "roughing it" at Adirondack camps (still employing servants, serving multi-course dinners) and a wife's naive concern about baseball players' "bases being full." The page consistently ridicules upper-class superficiality and self-deception.
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She Understood Him. SAND. DO you love me for myself alone?’’ asks the millionairess who is in the sere and yellow leaf. “Well, to be honest with you,’’ frankly says the suitor, ‘‘I love you for your fortune. No, I do not love you for yourself alone.’’ “I'm glad,’’ she sighs. ‘‘I’d hate to think you were as big a fool as that.'’ “Ob, Oi dunno, Recessional—Toward the Surf. TRE SHOUTING and the tumult dies; The women and the trunks depart; Still stands the nigh-broke sacrifice, Contentment in his guilty heart. Comrades of poker, 'phone him yet; Lest he forget, lest he forget. LTHOUGH it takes two to make a bargain, it requires only one ad. to make a bargain hunter. | Fashion Proverbs. PPEARANCES are a dear school, but women will go to no other. The shops will never run on the fash- ions that are past. A straight front is the shortest dis- tance between two shops. The mills of fashion grind swiftly, but they grind exceeding finery. Eilts 0. Jones. Wu, ~~ iw in iv Gy "2s « \ t “a ay aN A ° 4, NING j 7 ) LMG OWNG 7 eye ER INS we MNT Le ts a] av : i" SCO ee ar 4o¢ 3) CHECKMATE. “There, Pat ; you never saw anything as wonderful as that before?"’ Wanst, whin Oi waz a young fella, Oi wuz down in a coal-moine."" Frontier Hardships. Disgraceful. Eye to the Future. “ HAT kind of a dog would you like, madam?’’ asked the fancier. ‘*Well,’’ replied the society woman, who was ined to be both sentimental and thrifty, ‘I’m looking for one that is not likely to go out of fashion just as soon as you become attashed to it.’ «-)H, YES,” she says, ‘we are going to our camp in the Adirondacks during August. We really rough it up there.’’ “You do?’’ “Yes. We leave the under butler at home and we only have six-course din- ners."” 4] DON’T think you ought t go to baseball games,"” said his young wife. “Why not, my dear?” he asked. “‘T was reading an account of a game to-day, and the paper said that the bases were full three times yesterday afternoon!’’ | comicbooks.com