Judge, 1911-09-16 · page 10 of 28
Judge — September 16, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon (Bankrupt—Voluntary Receivership):** This satirizes a wealthy woman's transparent hypocrisy. She refuses to give reporters anything for publication while simultaneously posing for photographs and arranging elaborate social events—clearly craving the publicity she claims to avoid. The "voluntary receivership" title suggests her financial troubles, mocking her pretense of importance while she's actually in decline. **Text Section (My Girls):** A sentimental poem about romantic nostalgia, likely humorous in its maudlin excess—typical of the magazine's parodic approach to popular poetry of the era. **Bottom Cartoon:** Two brief jokes: one mocks a soap-box orator's disheveled appearance, suggesting his passionate speech-making has literally damaged his face; the second makes a pun about aviators being unafraid ("not rattled") when airborne. The page exemplifies Judge's satirical approach: mocking social pretension, vanity, and the absurdities of public figures trying to manage their images.
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finally, last week, to Mr. Jimsonberry Wiltonstein, my manager, exploited for advertising purposes. I should like to oblige you, dear boys, by giving you something, but on principle I cannot.’’ “‘We are very much obliged, just the same, madam,” said Grigsby, of the Gazoo. ‘‘Is there anything else you would care to have withheld from pub- lication?"" “Nothing that Ican think of at the moment,”’ said the lady graciously; “but if I think of anything later, you may perhaps avail yourself of it by call- ing at the St. Gotham, where—confi- dentially let me tell you—I have taken two floors and engaged a private ele- vator for the season. But as that has nothing to do with my art’’~— ‘*We won’t mention it,’ said the re- porters, in one voice. ‘*May we have a photograph to go with these suppressed paragraphs?” “Oh, I couldn’t think of such a thing!" she replied, drawing herself up haughtily and striking a graceful pose as the cameras clicked. ‘*That would look as though I sought publicity, while, as a fact, my one desire is to avoid it.’’ Then, smiling graciously, she held an- other equally striking pose for forty Y Uy BANKRUPT—VOLUNTARY RECEIVERSHIP. seconds, before hiding behind the manly form of her husband-manager, who sub- sequently invited the disappointed re- porters to luncheon at the St. Gotham. “SLIGHTLY DAMAGED BY SMOKE.” My Girls. (Apologies to Ella Wheeler Wilcox.) By ESTELLE MAY NOLTE. F ALL the girls I’ve gone to see Should come back in my dreams to me— Ah! then my dream ship soon would fill— With Gertrude, Susan, Kate, and Lill— If all my girls came back to me. If half the girls I’ve gone to see Should come and want to marry me, Though they had wealth and beauty, too, I'd run away from all but you— So awful frightened I would be If half my girls came back to me. If but One Girl I’ve gone to see Should come a-drifting back to me (What though the others never came), Though She were sick or blind or lame, Still rich and proud and glad I’d be If that One Girl came back to me. On the Face of It. “ HO is the leather-lunged W speaker?”” “*Some soap-box orator."’ “Judging from the appearance of his countenance, he needs a better acquaint- ance with his platform. HE only man who, when ‘up in the air,”’ is not rattled is the aviator. comicbooks.com