Judge — November 25, 1911 — page 17: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE LAST ROLL-CALL OF THE VICTIMS OF THE REIGN OF TERROR. (Thanksgiving Eve 1s not so merry in the barnyard.) Cost Cards for Courtship. OUNG man, aré you carrying on the business of courtship in the same old-fashioned ways as did your grand- father and great-grandfather? If so, why so? You would never dream of conducting your industrial affairs by the antiquated methods of fifty or a hundred years ago. Then why, in the most important matter affecting your future welfare, do you persist in being a mere copyist of men who, however estimable in their own day and generation, would be hopelessly back-numbered in this era of progressive efficiency? Efficiency! Scientific management 4 These are the clarion slogans of to-day. You are eagerly rallying to them in the office and factory, in civic and national affairs; but in the parlor and hammock, on shady path and sandy beach, you are still using the haphazard, hit-or-miss, impulsive, unscientific methods of moldy, bygone centuries. Why is this? Knowing your trained intelligence in As originated by FREDERICK MOXON. affairs of the head, what are we to think of your apparent stupidity in affairs of the heart? We can only conclude that the subject has not been brought to your attention. We, theréfore, propose to show you how, by a system recently perfected by ourselves, you can keep as accurate, as clear and concise an ic- count of your love affairs as of your business interests, Familiar as you doubtless are with card systems as used in modern account- ing, we feel that you will readily grasp and speedily adopt our ingenious applica- tion of the principle. We call it a “Cost System of Courtship.’’ We have designed and patented a set of cards to cover all possible needs of the system. By their use you may at any time determine the position you oc- cupy in the regards of the particular girl you may then be courting; and dur- ing the time covering a series of court- ships, and affecting different girls, you can make up comparative sheets and tabular statements showing your exact expenses to date, degrees of likeness or difference in the girls themselves, and ascertain with satisfying clearness just how you stand, both from a financial and affectional point of view. Let us illustrate. Our cards are let- tered and numbered in alphabetical and numerical order. We will assume that you are a beginner in the courtship busi- ness and that you have just become in- terested in a young lady named Jeanette. Take card No. 1, and back of this file the one lettered ‘‘J.’’ On this write the name ‘‘Jeanette,’ with her surname if you wish, although as a concession to sentiment this may be left off, espe- cially if it should happen to be some prosaic attachment, such as ‘Miggs’’ or ‘‘Bobble."” Under card “I” you will find ‘Intro- duction,’’ with space for entering date of meeting, by whom (if any one) intro- duced, and where. This card has a gen- erous ‘‘Remarks’’ margin, for the re- comicbooks.com