Judge, 1912-03-09 · page 5 of 24
Judge — March 9, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains four separate humor pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: 1. **"A Utilitarian"** (top): A domestic scene satirizing furniture practicality—a wife mocks her husband for immediately sitting in a new drawing-room chair, suggesting he prioritizes comfort over aesthetics. 2. **"It Is"** (left): A wordplay joke listing synonyms for "messy" (Muddy, Achy, Rawy, Chilly, Howly) in response to "Sherlockian" detective work. 3. **"Why She Blushed"** (right): A woman on a crowded streetcar is embarrassed when a colored woman sarcastically thanks her for a seat, implying the white woman's gesture was performative rather than genuinely courteous—commentary on social hypocrisy regarding race relations. 4. **"No Prude"** (bottom): A bathroom humor joke about undressing in public. The content reflects period attitudes, including casual racial stereotyping common in early 1900s American humor magazines.
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Wife—"* That's right, Edmund ! It Is Muddy, Achy, Rawy, Chiliy, Howly. Sherlockian. “‘Flubdub has just been calling on his best girl.”” **How do you know?’” “He has taken three cigars from his waist- coat pocket, and every one of them was bro- ken.” Into the Frying Pan. “T see that E. H. Sothern is interesting himself in the Shake- speare-Bacon controver- sy. I don't blame him for worrying. How would it look to read on the boards:} ‘Sothern and Marlowe in Bacon’?"’ A UTILITARIAN. No sooner do ! get a decent-looking chair for the drawing-room than you go to work and sit in it."" Why She Blushed. A very pretty but ex- tremely slender girl en- tered a street car and managed to seat herself in a very narrow space between twomen. Pr-s- entlya portly colcred mamny entered the car, and the pretty miss, thinking to humiliate the men for their lack of gallantry, arose. “Aunty,”’ she said, with a wave of her hand toward the place she had just vacated, ‘‘take my seat.”” “Thank you, missy,”” replied the colored wo- man, smiling broadly; “but which gen’man's lap was you sittin’ on?”” Lady—"You eat in an awkward way.”” NO PRUDE. “Oh, Ruth! Don’t undress here in public. Wait until the reader turns the page!"’ Tramp—"‘Yes, ma- ’am. But, you see, I’m a bit out of practice.’” comicbooks.com