Judge, 1911-06-24 · page 7 of 25
Judge — June 24, 1911 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon**: The "Anti-Hat Pin & Big Hat Nuisance League" satirizes a genuine public complaint of the era—women's elaborate hats adorned with long pins worn to theaters and public events, which obstructed other patrons' views. The cartoon advocates for legal prohibition of this fashion hazard. **Main Article "The Girl Scout Movement"** (by Harvey Peake): This is satirical social commentary on the newly-launched Girl Scout movement. Rather than praising it, the piece mockingly proposes a "Girl Scout" program teaching young women to hunt husbands using calculated feminine manipulation—coquetting, pouting, coldness, and other "wiles." It suggests instructors could be experienced widows and expands this to "scouting" for social position, theater tickets, and material goods. The satire critiques both dating/marriage customs and the emerging movement itself, suggesting women needed organized training in age-old male-hunting tactics. The accompanying sketches and final joke about a man's "sighs" reinforce themes of courtship as strategic performance.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
ERECTED By he a ANTI-HAT PIN BIG HA NUISANCE LEAGUE, FOR SUFFERING HUMANITY'S SAKE. Let us pass a law to remove a parade-day nuisance—the big hat and pins in the front row. THE GIRL SCOUT MOVEMENT. OW THAT the Boy Scout movement has been so suc- cessfully launched, why not the Girl Scout movement? It would seem that the latter would be even more successful than the former, for there are so many things for which girls should be prepared to scout. NOY ON DUTY. Mr. Smith (bebolding clerical acquaintance in seat I thought at theater) —"* Why, doctor, how is this ? you strongly disapproved of theater-going.’” Clereyman—" Well, you see, I'm—ah—on my vacation."” By HARVEY PEAKE Take, for instance, the matter of men, Heretofore this has been a hap- hazard, hit-or-miss sort of undertaking. But under the shelter of this movement a girl might go scouting for a husband according to an often tried and rarely unsuccessful plan. In other words, she would go to her task fully prepared. She would have been taught all the wiles and subtleties of man baiting — coquetting, pouting, apparent indifference, coldness, warmness, showing favors to rivals, hauteur, and other lures. This branch of the move- ment would be very popular if placed in the hands of a compe- tent and experienced instruct- ress—say, a widow who had been married about six times. Bargain-counter scouting would be reduced to a science by careful coaching. All the best methods of tackling, throw- ing, worming through the mass, demanding, grabbing, securing attention, and getting away with the pick of the collection would be taught and brought to perfection by daily practice. In the department of board- ing-house scouting would be taught the knack of getting the best room for the least money, the best place at the table and the choice of viands, the undisturbed use of the drawing-room four nights out of the week, and the ability to glare in a man- ner that would repel criticism. Under this head would also be taught methods of obtaining entrees to and get- ting possession of best seats at weddings, parties, entertainments, etc.; also an absolutely sure method of obtaining seats in crowded cars. Many other special branches might be added, such as scouting for social posi- tion, for automobile rides, theater tick- ets, and bonbons, for sartorial pre- eminence, and for footlight favoritism. Who is the long- headed and long-suf- fering individual who will start the move- ment? = ip BREADTH AND DEPTH. He—"*Do you not hear my sighs ?"” She—"" No; bat I see it.” comicbooks.com