Judge, 1913-04-26 · page 8 of 24
Judge — April 26, 1913 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces mocking middle-class financial pretense: **"UNHAPPINESS"** (top): A couple calculates imaginary savings from a day out—$98.53 in "saved" money by comparing what they spent versus hypothetical costs. The satire targets self-deceptive accounting: they spent real money ($50 of a $49.45 remainder) while congratulating themselves on financial mastery. The wife's heartbreak over leaving her dog home undercuts the husband's boastful calculations. **"TWICE LENT"** (bottom left): A husband borrows his wife's allowance before she can spend it—mocking marital financial control and the fiction of women's "independence" in an allowance system. **The remaining shorts** mock pretentious taste ("Post-impressionism"), romantic incompetence, and ostentatious entertaining without substance. The common thread: Judge satirizes how the emerging middle class performed wealth and financial sophistication through consumption and flawed logic, while actual money management remained chaotic.
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The mother—Isn't it lovely in the country! emmy ees «Just add that to ( what we've saved al- ready. Makes $94.73 \ I’ve made to-day —not a bad day's salary! q Here, what's the mat- ter with this show?’’ cess He turned in at a mov- ing-picture palace and planked down the real money for two tickets. At six o'clock the show was over and they hurried home to dinner. ‘‘Let’s see.’’ Hangon rubbed his hands together. ‘‘Difference between paying $4 for two seats and twenty cents is 33.80. Add that, and we have $98.53 I’ve made so far, just in this one day. Nearly $100 just to-day. Why, that would be $600 a week, or over $2,500 a month! Think of that!’’ “And you haven't spentall your money, either," re- NESS The other woman—It would be, but I'm heart-broken. ‘*No, I should say not. I started out with $50, and, anyway, I've got $49.45 left. Expensive—this rushing around shopping and lunching and going to shows. But, you see, I can afford it. I made $98.53 to-day.’" “That ain’t all, John. You just said you had $49.45 left. Well, you’ve saved ORI marked Mrs, Hangon glow- ingly, proud to think her husband was such a master financier. TWICE LENT Gladys—Does your husband give you an allowance? ; Dolores—Ob, yes ; but he borrows it before I get a chance to spend any of it. I had to leave Fido at home! that, and a dollar saved is a dollar earned. That makes $147.98 you've made to-day. Just think of that! Why, that’s nearly as much as the President makes!"" Robert Carlton Brows Post-impressionism She—Didn't you admire that picture at the International Show of the nude lady descending the stairs? He—Sure! But, say, she couldn’t get a job as a chorus girl ina million years! Slow “He's a nice fellow to take a girl fishing!” “Why, what did he do?” “He fished,"” Simply for Show Mary—lIda has a glorious lot of silver, hasn't she? Alice—Yes; every time I dine there, at the end of the meal I find a lot of forks left over that I haven't had anything to eat with, comicbooks.com