Judge, 1911-12-30 · page 18 of 25
Judge — December 30, 1911 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon:** A wealthy motorist in an open car offers shelter to a freezing tramp, who refuses—not from pride, but because riding in an open car on a cold night is too unpleasant. The satire inverts expected class dynamics: the poor man rejects the rich man's charity based on comfort standards, mocking both upper-class condescension and the tramp's fastidiousness. **Other Content:** The page includes domestic humor columns ("Culinary Comments," "Easy," "New Year's") mocking marriage, cooking, and New Year's resolutions—standard Judge fare. A brief joke references "suffragettes" smashing windows, referencing early 1900s women's suffrage activism. **Context:** This appears early 20th century, when Judge satirized class pretension, gender roles, and social reform movements through exaggerated scenarios and light verse.
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The Fastidious One. By WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. Twilight had let her cur- tain fall and pinned it with a star, as the man in the motor car, wrapped and furred against the sharp cold, spun along the coun- try road. At a turn he came upon a tramp sitting on a sheltered log, asleep or frozen. It was up to him not to let the homeless one freeze to death, and he went to his rescue. | “Here!’’ he said, shak- ing him; ‘‘here! Wake up! You'll freeze! Come along with me!’’ The tramp straightened up, rubbed his eyes, looked at the man and the car waiting in the road, and shook his head. “‘Aw,"’ he growled, ‘go on and lemme alone! This is no kind of a night to be riding around in an open | car. | Culinary Comments. ‘OUR refrigerator won't be cold if you are cold to the iceman. The most expensive reci- pes are often found in the cheapest cook books. Even if your husband asks for a rare steak, he doesn’t want one that isn’t well done, When you make an in- ventory of your kitchen fix- tures, don’t, unless you are the lady yourself, include the cook. Should your husband re- fuse ta indulge in the culi- nary delicacies that you originate, don’t feel bad; he won't. Endeavor to bear in mind the fact that a pudding should not be made so it will be best served from a tureen. If salt water leak from the freezer into the ice cream, don’t mourn and don’t throw the mixture away; warm it up for New minister—'‘ How old WORTH THE COST. 5 are you, little man?” Can I trust you with an important message, my boy ?"” behest Siht - “You sure can, boss. Wot is it, love, finance, or high jinks ? Slum child—"'I ain't old; | While remembering that *Cause high jinks I charges for."’ I’s five years young.” a man’s heart is reached 7 } by his stomach, don’t forget that hisdys- sandwiched between such volumes as New Year's. | Pepsia is reached in the same manner. the “Family Doctor” and ‘How To Cure +5 w fading institution, | If your husband brags of his forbear- _Indigestion.”” For, when all is said and done, ance, wait till eggs are selling foreighty ‘Try not to feel puffed up with a feel- _ Don’t we treat each resolution j cents a dozen, then make a sponge cake ing of generosity when you give tramps With the accent on the ‘‘Shun’’? | every day. donations from bakings that are flat ] Boast all you wish of the healthful- failures. ness of the food you prepare, but don’t, Don’t flatter yourself that your splen- | at the same time, have your cook book did cooking impels your husband to take all his meals at home; he may have ex- < P — “") _ hausted his credit at the restaurant. If you find, the evening before your husband must take an early morning train, that the alarm clock is broken, give the man a good, big, hearty dinner of Welsh rabbit. Before you serve a meal which you are sure will be disappointing, don’t fail to greet your husband with more ALSO, A LOBSTER than your usual show of affection. This “* Pa, what is a boob ?"” procedure on your part may ward off “*A boob, my son, is a lemon's affinity."" some of his exasperating comments. Looking Upward. Easy. (In 1999)—‘‘Marie, bring out the aeroambulator and take baby up for an Poverty—“Did you have any trouble S°r°sm" airing. flying out of the window?” ee mck Love—‘Not a bit! A suffragette A New Year’s thought: We make ‘em “ALL BUT—.” smashed it for me.’’ to break ’em. comicbooks.com