Judge, 1912-04-06 · page 7 of 28
Judge — April 6, 1912 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct satirical pieces reflecting early 20th-century domestic and social attitudes: **"As It Really Is (in Most Cases)"** depicts a marriage debate where the husband pressures his wife to buy expensive new clothes as a status symbol and business advertisement, while she tries to economize for home ownership. The satire critiques male vanity and consumerism masked as concern for appearance. **"Enough Said"** mocks a schoolchild's innocent misuse of "-tion" words, creating unintended humor by describing family members' hair loss through malapropism (e.g., "father's hair is a recollection"). **"Cause Enough"** is a misogynistic joke where a sea captain claims women from South America had "no tongues," and when asked how they communicated, he says they couldn't—implying silent women are "wild" or desirable. The humor relies on period attitudes denigrating women's speech. The "Easter Parade" illustration shows anthropomorphized objects and animals in a spring procession, typical whimsical Judge magazine filler art.
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Look at the bills! It’s enough to make a man gray- headed,”’ etc., etc. As It Really Is (in Most Cases). John—‘Amelia, I wish you would go to the milliner’s and buy you a decent hat. When I go out on the street and see other women, whose husbands haven’t half my income, wearing clothes and hats that make yours look dowdy, I’m almost ashamed of my wife. There are some mighty gcod-looking hats in the windows now and you want to be natty for spring. You might get a new hat and a new suit, too—or a couple of both. Get the best I'd rather pay out a cou- ple of hundred dollars than have you go around looking as though I was about to fail in business and couldn't af- ford to buy my wife a gown."’ Amelia—But, John, you know we're trying to save to buy that house, and you know how high things are. Besides, I can fix this hat over, and my last spring gown looks as good as new with a little new trimming. If anybody ought to get new things, it’s you. You've worn that same spring overcoat for five years."” John—**My dear, it doesn’t matter how shabby aman is. It's his wife that THE TOPIC. “« Let's see—whom were we discussing ?”” “‘T forget. Who went out of the room last ?"” really counts. If he has her decked out, people figure he is shabby himself merely because he’s eccentric. Before we were married, you used to doll out in the nif- tiest clothes ever, and I want you to do it now—partially because it’s a good ad- vertisement for the business, and mostly because I’ve got a pretty wife I want to look her prettiest.’’ Amelia—‘ Well, if you in- sist, dear; but two hundred dollars is an awful lot to spend!’” Enough Said. The teacher in charge of one of the grades in a gram- mar school wroteon the board a number of words ending in the syllable ‘‘tion.’’ After explaining the meaning of each to the class, she told them to use the words in sen- tences. Her pupils wrote busily for a few moments, and then one of them aston- ished her with the following: “Father's hair is a recol- lection, mother’s is an acqui- sition, auntie’s is a compila- tion, sister's is an aggrega- tion, brother's is a conflagra- tion, while baby’s is a mere premonition.’’ Cause Enough. “*When I was shipwrecked in South America,’’ said Captain Bowsprit, ‘1 came across a tribe of wild women who had no tongues."’ “Mercy !’’ cried one of his listeners of the fair sex. ‘‘How could they talk?” “They couldn't!”” snapped the old salt. ‘‘That’s what made ’em wild.”” EASTER PARADE comicbooks.com