Judge, 1912-08-24 · page 7 of 24
Judge — August 24, 1912 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short humorous anecdotes satirizing early 20th-century domestic life and social issues. **Key satirical points:** - **"And Draws Checks"**: Mocks marriages between American heiresses and European aristocrats (likely referencing the "Gotrocks" wealthy family type), suggesting such men marry for money rather than looks. - **Jury Excusal**: The joke ridicules married men's lack of independent thought—a juror claims he cannot decide anything without consulting his wife and mother-in-law, leading the judge (himself married) to sympathize and excuse him. - **Women's Suffrage Reference**: "The Silver Lining" appears to reference militant suffragette tactics (throwing stones through windows to protest voting rights), with the husband viewing his wife's jail sentence as solving his summer vacation dilemma. - **General Theme**: These vignettes mock domestic dynamics where wives control husbands financially and intellectually, and critique women's activist methods. The humor relies on anti-feminist assumptions typical of the era. The rabbit illustration appears decorative rather than narrative-driven.
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AND DRAWS CHECKS. ** Bertie didn’t count much on good looks when he married that Gotrocks heiress."’ “* No; but he banks on them now."’ Little Conversations. HE WAS EXCUSED. HE talesman had wriggled wriggled, and finally the judge lost patience. “Do you mean to state on oath that you don’t think you have sufficient in- telligence to render a just verdict on the evidence?’ he shouted. “Not exactly that, judge,’’ said the talesman; ‘‘but the fact is that for the last ten years my mind has been made up for me by my wife and mother-in-law, and, as I un- derstand this jury stunt, I shall not be allowed to com- municate with them."’ “Excused !’’ cried the judge. “I'm a married man myself.’ ON OCCASIONS. “Are you superstitious about thirteen at table?’’ asked Mrs. Hickenlooper. “Tam when there’s hardly enough food for twelve,’’ said Mrs. Giddybody. and A HELPFUL SUGGESTION. “Yes,” said Blobson, “when I got home there they were—twins! I was simply Paralyzed. We've named one of them Ann Eliza, but we're up a tree for a name for the other."’ “Why not call her Paralyzer?” sug- gested Binks, THE SILVER LINING. Mrs, Stronghead had just thrown a THE RABBITS SURPRISE. I thought my left hind foot was lucky."" “Ouch! paving stone through a drug-store win- dow, merely to prove that she was en- titled to a vote, and had been marched off to jail. “Thank heaven!"’ said Stronghead. “That settles the where-shall-we-spend- the-summer problem, anyhow.’’ SAVED. “Oh, John,’’ sobbed Mrs. John, ‘I've done something awful, and I am almost afraid to tell you—but I must! I made a most awful mistake this morning and sent your new dress suit to the rummage sale instead of your old one, and when I found out what I had done and ran over to get it back it had been sold.’’ “That's all right, Mabel, dear,’ said John amiably. ‘‘I stopped in at the sale myself and bought it back for thirty- five cents.”” WHAT'S IN A NAME? Marjorie—“But, dear, wouldn’t love in a cottage be rather commonplace?’’ De Garry—‘‘Well, of course, we could call the shack a bungalow.” comicbooks.com