Judge, 1912-04-06 · page 12 of 28
Judge — April 6, 1912 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on two topics: **The Caricaturists' Lament (main feature):** Fashion designers have inadvertently destroyed caricaturists' subject matter. Women's clothing was once so extravagantly exaggerated that cartoonists could mock it through caricature. Now that modern fashion itself has become so extreme and avant-garde, cartoonists can no longer exaggerate beyond reality—fashion designers have "beaten them to it." The poem mourns losing the "Goose of the Golden Eggs." **Judge Waxem's Political Proverbs (bottom):** Folk-wisdom commentary on contemporary politics, including jabs at women's suffrage activists and critiques of politicians prioritizing being "right" over winning elections. The final proverb references Diogenes searching for an honest man, suggesting Congress lacks integrity. The page reflects early 20th-century anxieties: changing fashion norms threatening traditional humor, and skepticism toward progressive political movements like women's suffrage.
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Jedge Waxem's AIN'T doubtin’ that Skedule K is all wool and a yard wide, but it ought to be a good deal wider. Thar’s some rivers in this country that I'm in faver of improvin’ fram ther hedwarters to ther mouth and back agin ef necessary; but when it comes to spendin’ the taxpayers’ money on lockin’ and dammin’ a gravel bed, I raise my voice in oppersishun on this floor till my last breth. Caricaturists. I. It’s hard to think that we are robbed Of a portion of our field. For our pens have scratched and our brains have throbbed And fair has been the yield ey Of caricatures of Women's Clothes, (Ob! the foolish things they wore.) And it’s hard to think that those times have gone— We can't do that any more. I. The days have gone when the clothes they wore Could be drawn in exaggeration. We can’t draw now as we did of yore, They have stolen cur vocation. For they've killed the Goose of the Eges of Gold (Oh! our race we fear, is run.) They have knocked exaggeration out, And this is the way twas done. M1. The Goose that laid the Eggs of Gold They killed in a simple way. For the caricatures that we think so bold Are fashion plates today. We may try to exaggerate more than they, but ala.! we cannot do it. For Our wildest schemes are their mildest dreams— They have simply beat us to it. Political Some wimmen-suffridge wimmen was talkin’ to me the other day about re- pairin’ the Statute of Libberty, and when I ast them ef they wanted to put pants on her, they said I insulted them —as though a statesman uv my carack- ter, and me a married man, too, would insult a lady. Something is wrong with a politishan when he would ruther be right than be President. Robert J. Wildhack Proverbs. When a candidate gits so inthusiastic he throws his hat in the ring, he had better have a string tied to it er he may have to go barehedded. Thar’s wuss ways of killin’ the coun- try than chokin’ it to deth on conserva- tism. I gess Congress wasent in seshun when old man Doggynes was goin’ round with a lantern in daylight lookin’ fer an honest man. comicbooks.com