Judge, 1911-10-28 · page 13 of 24
Judge — October 28, 1911 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This **Judge** magazine page contains several satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century social conventions and contemporary absurdities: **Top panels**: "The Dingle Family Before and After" contrasts a chaotic family dinner with an orderly, refined one—likely satirizing the pretensions of social climbing or etiquette guides. **Main jokes**: - A romantic proposal sketch playing on repetitive courtship language - "Unprofessional" mocks how the Italy-Turkey war moved faster than film crews could document it—critiquing journalism's obsession with motion pictures as news - "First Aid to Thought" ridicules pseudoscientific claims that colored neckties improve mental performance, predicting colleges will adopt this absurd trend - "Down in Delaware" uses racial caricature stereotypes (unclear racist wordplay involving peaches) - "Society Will Be There" dismisses wealthy society's leisure pursuits as predictable The satire targets vanity, gullibility toward pseudo-science, and social pretension—typical Judge magazine fare mocking American middle and upper-class aspirations.
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“PEE TOUGH OF MIDAS” A Girl's “Never Again!” “ EVER again,’’ Ne een, “Must you try to propose to me.’’ But the man_ smiled and whispered, “Darling Nan, Pray, will you my little wife be?”’ Nan shook her head at the man, but— she smiled— “Is it never again?”’ he said. “Yes, never again you'll ask,’’ she re- plied. “We are going to marry, instead !’’ Lida KAb Wieins, said a maid to a Unprofessional. Crawford—This war between Italy and Turkey was rather sudden, wasn’t itv” Crabshaw—I should say so. They started in before the moving-picture men could arrive on the scene."’ ye eA “| = mii Ay ooo AND APIER co HE water wagon now should change Its label a great deal; To fit the times it should be called The aqueous mobile. “BOW TO” IN VEST. First Aid to Thought. (A writer ina curtent magazine, discussing “The Psy- chology of Colors,"* quotes a” shrewd observer "as say ing,” Whenever the day is overcast of I have to do a piece of work calling for unesual mental exertio wear a fed of yellow necktie. 1 Sind that a beneficial effect on ty thinking apparatus. HREWD haberdashers will immedi- ately lay in large stocks of gaudy neckwear, especially in college towns, and we may soon expect to see the staid old professor of psychology become quite the gayest thing on the campus. Down in Delaware. Black—‘‘How’s that girl of yours?’’ White—‘‘A perfect peach!’’ Black—‘‘A free stone?” White—‘No. A cling stone.’’ Society Will Be There. LITTLE horse show, now and then, Is relished by the Upper Ten. comicbooks.com