Judge, 1911-07-29 · page 16 of 24
Judge — July 29, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Femininity" (top left):** A horse wearing a hat jokes about fashion constraints—likely mocking Victorian women's restrictive dress codes and the absurdity of fashion trends. **"With the Help of Charley" (main text):** A wife's gushing letter praising her husband for doing all housework—cooking, cleaning, ironing, sewing—while she plays music and relaxes. The satire is obvious: this inverts traditional gender roles to mock either lazy wives or husbands foolish enough to enable them. Judge's readership would find this ridiculous role-reversal humorous. **"What Did He Mean?":** References Theodore Roosevelt ("Teddy") refusing a presidential nomination, questioning whether the "calamity" he mentions would harm him or the country—political commentary on his ambitions. **"A Flying Escort" and "Deduction":** Brief comic vignettes about kites and a woman's occupation, using wordplay and visual gags. The page satirizes contemporary social anxieties about changing gender roles and marriage dynamics.
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FEMININITY. Miss Maud- these hats are the style."” EAR mamma—We are fully _ giving the whole house a good overhaul- ding present, Charley just sat down and settled in our housekeeping ing for Sunday. He makes beds so ran it a whole hour for me. He is so arrangements and it’s such beautifully, and the other day, when I clever! good fun. But I couldn’t get was having such a lot of bother trying some old machine for me. He helps me along nearly so well as I do to learn how to run the new sewing ma- with the ironing and he can make such if it were not for the help of Charley. chine Uncle George gave me for a wed- beautiful biscuits, and instead of having He is such a dear in help- ing me! In the morning he gets up and gets the gas stove to going and makes the coffee and often broils the steak or fries eggs while I am dressing. Sometimes, if Iam awful- ly, horridly sleepy, he brings me a cup of coffee and some toast before he goes downtown, and I do not get up until nine or ten o’clock—such a dear as he is! Then he orders about everything from the grocery and always comes home in time to help me get dinner, and he washes the dishes while I dry them. Then he puts the kitchen to rights while I play his favorite airs and sing to him. He does all of the sweeping and heavy work, and just lets his ‘own little wifey,’ as he calls me, do the lighter work. You know he has his Saturday half holidays the year through, and he spends them beating and sweeping the rugs and ** T used to object most strenuously to wearing blinders, but I don’t care now, as long as What Did He Mean? “THINK not of nominating me, It would be a calamity To start that boom.’ Thus Teddy shooed away the bee. Did he mean a calamity For him? Or whom? They Were. ITTLE ELSIE came into the kitchen with some eggs in abasket. ‘‘Mamma,”’ she said, “our hens are getting awfully absent-minded."’ “Why, dear, what makes you think so?’’ asked her mother. “Look here,”’ said the little girl, holding up a soft-shelled egg, ‘‘this makes the third one this week that they forgot to put a shell on.” Mormon best man (APTER THE WEDDING)—“ CONGRATULA- TIONS, GEORGB, AND MANY HAPPY RETURNS OP THE DAY.” WITH THE HELP OF CHARLEY. He says he will run the bother- A FLYING ESCORT. 1 ‘Ab, Algernon, cousin Eddie wants you to hold his kite tor him. You will, won't you? 2 He certainly does, and hangs on, too. me bother sewing on his buttons he actually sewed several loose buttons on my jacket the other day! It is all nonsense about it being so much trouble to keep house. We just get along beautifully and Charley says Iam just a dear little housekeeper. He has just rung the bell for me to come down to dinner, and I haven't time to write any more to-day. He is such a dear, and it makes meso happy to think that he likes my housekeeping. Annie. JL Harbour, Deduction. «67 WONDER what that slender young wo- man works at,’’ says the man with the vibrant rs. “She must be a school teacher,” answers the man with the deep-set eyes. “I overheard her say that she tans very quickly.” comicbooks.com