Judge, 1912-12-21 · page 10 of 24
Judge — December 21, 1912 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon (top):** Shows a family gathered around a wealthy uncle, who announces he's thirsty. The satire mocks health-anxiety hysteria: the accompanying text lists contradictory warnings about nearly every food and beverage (meat causes apoplexy, oysters cause toxemia, water causes typhoid, milk causes tuberculosis, etc.). The punchline: to stay alive, one must eat nothing, drink nothing, smoke nothing—and breathe only sterilized air. This ridicules contemporary health-scare culture and medical alarmism. **"What Bumble Thought":** Satirizes male attitudes toward women's suffrage. "Bumble" cynically predicts that if women gain voting power and offices, men will simply marry the successful ones or be forced into actual work. The joke exposes male selfishness and resistance to women's independence. **"Learning Her Own Lesson":** A young woman (Sadie) discovers her fiancé (Jimmie) expects her to cook exactly like a professional male baker every morning. Her deadpan response—"that's a man what's makin' 'em"—mocks male expectations that women naturally possess domestic skills. All three mock early 20th-century social anxieties and gender attitudes.
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THE FAMILY'S SOLICITUDE. Dangers of Living. Fét MEAT, and you'll have apo- Eat oysters, toxemia is thine; 4) Dessert, and you'll take to paresis; Have gout if youdrink too much wine. Drink water, and get typhoid fever; Drink milk, get tu-ber-cu-lo-sis; Drink whiskey, develop the jim- jams; Eat soup, Bright's disease—think of this! And vegetables weaken the system, Cigars mean catarrh and bad breath, While coffee brings nervous prostra- tion, And cigarettes bring early death. So eat nothing, drink nothing, smoke nothing; And if you would live, have a care, Their rich uncle mentions that he is thirsty. And don’t breathe at all, pray re- member, Unless you breathe sterilized air! Jame Courtney Challisn. What Bumble Thought. Rumble—‘What do you think of woman suffrage now? It looks as though every State in the Union might finally grant the sex the vote!"’ Bumble—''The more the merrier! Men now in the suffrage States will hang around women’s caucuses like flies around a sugar bowl, and the whole political game will assume piquancy and romance.’’ Rumble —‘‘But suppose women start to get the offices? What can stop them? And what will men who have been taken care of by politics for years do?” Bumble+—'‘ Why, those of them who can go into matrimony may marry the women who get offices, and the rest of them can give a spur to indus- try by going to work."’ LEARNING HER OWN LESSON. Jimmie—"1 brought ye here, Sadie, for ye to learn how to make them cakes, ‘cos when we git married I'm goin’ to want ‘em every mornin’ for breakfast." Sadie—'" Yes; but, Jimmie, that's a man what's makin’ em."’ comicbooks.com