Judge, 1913-07-12 · page 6 of 24
Judge — July 12, 1913 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early 20th-century American leisure and social pretense through multiple cartoons and verses. **"The Social Standard"** mocks wealthy summer tourists who wastefully compete through constant costume changes and expensive hotel stays, knowing they appear ridiculous to actual high society but continuing anyway—a commentary on aspirational overspending. **"Its Good Point"** uses a farmer's pride in his used car's noise (not quality) to satirize how people rationalize poor purchases by focusing on trivial attributes. **"Delia Bathing"** humorously critiques women's impractical Victorian bathing costumes—elaborate serge dresses and shoes designed to prevent wetting while supposedly swimming, reducing bathing to mere appearance maintenance. Minor pieces mock social pretension ("A True Cavalier"), small-town rivalry ("And Thus It Goes"), and gender dynamics ("He Wondered," "On the High C's"). The overall theme: American society's obsession with superficial status markers over genuine value or practicality.
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Fourth, go to the most expensive places and dress seven times a day, or seventy times seven, if the others do. You don’t have a chance at home to mix it up with the rich and fashionable, and why shouldn’t you do it when you get a chance? You can’t stay as long and you will be deader broke when it is over than if you were sane about it, but nobody wants to be sane twelve months in a year. Summer is the silly season, anyhow, so be as silly as you can. The swagger people who are under the same hotel roof with you are onto you, all right, and it amuses them. They have other amusements, but you don’t pay for them, which saves you a lot. There are a few hundred other things you may do when you are off for your summer splurge, but they need not be mentioned here. If you follow the ad- vice above given, they will come your way soon enough. It is a demonstrated fact that what one person doesn’t know about spending the summer properly an- other one does, and they are sure to get together and talk until everything gets out. By that time summer is over and the golden dream looks like a nightmare for the next nine or ten or eleven months. AY ing = af =e Hervey Peawe THE SOCIAL STANDARD ITS GOOD POINT Second-hand dealer (to Farmer Green, to whom he had sold a car)—Well, how do you like your car by this time? Farmer Green—Wa-al, it ain't much on looks, and it ain't much on speed; but, by gum ! it kin make more noise than any other car in the county ! Delia Bathing HE WEARS, to keep her tresses from the wave, A cap and netting; With dainty shoes upon her feet, to save Those feet from wetting. In skirt and bodice of a creamy serge She meets the surges; Or, standing hesitant upon the verge, One foot she merges. In playful mood she dallies with the tide, Splashing it neatly. (If she went further in, you see, 'twould hide Her dress completely.) Arthur L. Salmon, A True Cavalier “‘Flamson is the very essence of cour- tesy."" “He is?” “Yes; at the Hemmand- haw’s ball the other night, he even referred to the wall flowers as mural decorations."" And Thus It Goes In Kokomo they laugh in glee About the name of Kankakee, And Kankakeeites pass the buck By poking fun at Keokuk. He Wondered | “I often wonder,’’ obfus- catedly mused skimpy little Mr. Hennypeck, “why any woman's husband is ever called her lord and master?"’ Everybody will know I've got it. He Explained HE GIRL was willing, but the base- ball player was diffident. She had to resort to strategy. “Jim,’’ she said, ‘‘there are several points of the game that I wish you would explain."” “‘Where shall I begin?’’ he asked, de- lighted, “I should like to—er’ —she hesitated, blushing—*‘know more about the ‘squeeze play.""” According to Shape The girl who’s inclined to be slim, To the mountains secluded will go it; While the one with the beautiful limb, By the sea will continue to show it. ON THE HIGH C'S “* Willie, you have been a very bad boy, and as a punishment I'm going to make you stay right here in this room while your mother is practising her singing lesson."" comicbooks.com