Judge, 1911-10-14 · page 5 of 23
Judge — October 14, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains satirical humor pieces targeting early 20th-century social conventions. **"Judge" (top)**: A silhouette cartoon mocking women who collect engagement rings. One woman shows off multiple "commissions from the jeweler on every engagement ring given her"—satirizing women perceived as serial fiancées who break engagements for jewelry profits. **"She 'Done Well"**: A dialogue jokes about Maggie Smart's advantageous marriage to a man with steady employment and decent prospects—portraying marriage as primarily transactional economic arrangement for women. **"Not Always" and "In Wrong"**: Brief humorous anecdotes questioning whether marrying older men guarantees women's financial security, and a joke about a farmer undervaluing his cow to a stranger. The overall theme critiques both women's marriage-market calculations and the commodification of matrimony in the period.
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«sQAY, [heard the other day that Mag- gie Smart had went an’ got mar- ried. Do you know if she done well?’” asked Annie when she met Jennie on the elevated car on their Thursday after- noon out. “Done well? Well, I should ruther say Mag has done wel was the re- ply of Jennie. “He's got a stiddy job at fifteena week, with achance to rise, an’ he takes his dinnerwith him, an’ she hasn’t a blessed thing to do until he gits home at nearly seven at night; an’ his folks are nearly ail dead, so she ain't got to bother with none o” them. She told me with her own mouth that she had went to two matinays an’ three movin’ - pic- ture shows in one week, an’ he’s bought her a new hat already an’ taken her to Coney Island twice; an’ she says he ain’ta bit fussy about his OH, RING OFF! Willie—" There's a git who made her vacation pay." Nillie—"' Why, how 's that?"* Willie—' She got a commission from the jeweler on every engagement ring given her."” SHE “DONE WELL.” eatin’, so she can pass out most anything to him an’ have more time for herself. They got four nice rooms an’ a bath, an’ hot an’ cold water an’ a gas range. If she ain't done well in ropin’ him in, I sag Bluff—‘'1 understand that Jones was let in on the ground floor in Smith’s financial scheme of fifty per cent. profit. Sham—'‘He got in on the ground floor all right, but the trouble was that he found the cellar already full."’ Is that so?"’ with a suggestion of longing in her voice. ‘‘Some folks is born to good luck.’’ Not Always. “Pont you think,”’ she asked, ‘‘that an old man who marries a young woman makes a great mistake ?’’ “Not necessari- ly,” he replied. “Once in a while a young woman who marries an old man lets him go on hav- ing the use of his money till the end.”” In Wrong. Stranger —“What do you value your white cow at?” Farmer —‘‘Five dollars if you’re an assessor, and three hundred if you’re a railroad agent and your blamed cars have killed her!" Stranger —-‘‘I'm neither. I wanted to buy her.’” O bankers en- dorse check suits ? comicbooks.com