Judge, 1912-12-21 · page 12 of 24
Judge — December 21, 1912 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains three satirical vignettes about Christmas deception and marital revenge: 1. **Top cartoon**: A chaotic Christmas shopping scene viewed from above, illustrating the madness of holiday consumerism. 2. **"Never Again!"**: Three short humorous stories exposing hypocrisy: - A boy pretends to reform before Christmas to receive gifts, then returns to misbehavior - A man promises his wife he'll quit poker but secretly continues, deceiving her - A woman buys her husband cheap cigars as a gift; he retaliates by smoking them around her dinner guests, driving them away with the smell and forcing her to spend the next day cleaning 3. **"Si at Town Meeting"**: A brief rural joke about a man's church remarks being shockingly profane rather than spontaneous. The satire targets 1920s domestic dishonesty—showing spouses deceiving each other through false promises and calculated revenge. The humor relies on readers recognizing the petty but relatable marital conflicts of the era.
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NO FOOTBALL GAME LIKE IT. Christmas shopping from the balcony above. Never Again! FEW weeks before Christmas she believed he did, and that proved have saved two hundred dollars by his little Johnnie experienced a satisfactory toboth. When Christmas self-denial, so she bought herself a change of heart. He realized that he came,his wife figured out thathe must present costing that amount and had was often a naughty boy it charged to him. and gave his parents much trouble; so he resolved to turn over a new leaf and be a model child—until after Christmas. Of course he missed a whole lot of fun, but he played his part so well that he deceived everybody. The result was that he got nothing in his stocking but Sunday-school books. A man who had a lit- tle sporting blood in his veins promised his wife to give up his regular Saturday night poker games. In reality, he didn’t give them up; but SI AT TOWN MEETING. “* Was Si's remarks at town meetin’ extemporan’us ?"” “« They was worse 'n that—they was almost profane !"" A woman of an eco- nomic turn—as far as her husband’s Christmas present was concerned— bought him a box of bar- gain-counter cigars. He didn’t hide them up in the garret or give them tothe janitor. His revenge was much more subtle and deadly. Whenever his wife had company, he pro- duced the cigars andj hand- ed them around among the men guests. They all left early, and in the morning his wife had to stay home to fumigate the house. J. Se O'Connell comicbooks.com