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This *Judge* magazine page satirizes workplace social dynamics and gender relations in early 20th-century America. **Main Story ("Rebelled"):** A young office worker succeeds by deliberately *ignoring* conventional business advice—avoiding formality, shirking duties, treating his boss as a friend rather than authority figure. His proprietor "Old Blodger" rewards this irreverence, eventually making him a partner. The satire mocks both the young man's insubordination and the boss's weakness for flattery and camaraderie over professional propriety. The moral warns that advice's value depends on the adviser's character, not universal principles. **Secondary Cartoons:** "What She Missed" jokes that city women prioritize entertainment (movies) over suburban life. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" plays on the nursery rhyme, suggesting the "lamb" is actually a "goat"—urban slang for a dupe. **"Playing the Game":** Satirical aphorisms about courtship and marriage, reflecting period attitudes: women hide their artifices, men miss obvious details, and matrimonial success requires feminine strategy and male obtuseness. The overall tone mocks workplace hierarchies and romantic conventions.

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nified and revolutionary proceeding was exceeded only by the delight of the Pro- VW) _, prietor, who laughed long and loud and who swore he had never heard a better story. Perhaps it was his success at this unusual adventure or perhaps it. was a natural antipathy to conventionality of all kinds which caused the Young Man from that time on studiously to disregard all the good advice he had been proffered. He arrived at and departed from the office at will and without regularity. He avoided work as much as possible, conniving in one way or another to transfer most of his duties to the shoulders of other em- ployes. He was happy and care-free about the office, and, above all, he was not hum- ble or sycophantic in the presence of ‘Old Blodger.”” If the Proprietor had been his own father, the Young Man couldn’t have treated him with much less respect. He kept him pgsted on all the latest sto- ries. He induced him to join merry, youth-renewing expeditions. He lured him to the ball games. He showed him the new dance steps at the cabarets, In short, he did all manner of things which a wise Young Man should not do, The result was that in a year or two the Young Man was fe REBELLED It went with her to shop one day (In stores you 'Il often meet it), But a shopping lamb is just a ‘‘ goat," So Mary's lambie ** beat it.”” Mary had a little lamb, Its face was white as snowy And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was made to go. City lady (to suburbanite friend) —I cannot understand how you can live out here. WHAT SHE MISSED Why, there isn't a moving picture show in the town ! taken into the firm as a full partner. ‘‘He’s the greatest fel- low around an office you ever saw,’ explained Blodger to a crony of his. ‘Always cheerful. Never has a long face. Gets his work done with absolutely no apparent effort. Bright 98 a whip. Nothing of the machine about him, And, above all, he iz the only man I ever had in the shop who treated me as if I were a human being under a hundred years of age. I tell you, he’s a wonder!"" Tbe Young Man was wont to explain his success by the modest statement that it was the only course possible for him, as all the accepted methods of business success had been pre- empted by those already well intrenched in the employ of the establishment. ‘And, besides,'’ he would add, ‘while the ad- vice I received seemed all right in itself, the fellows who gave it were so unattractive that 1 thought I should prefer to fail rather than to follow in their footsteps.’” Moral—Advice is chameleonic. It varies its color to har- monize with that of him who offers it. Playing the Game [7 JS well for the Wise Virgin to keep man ignorant of the fact that all her wicks are trimmed; it makes him cautious. Men aren't so quick to notice the things a woman has on as to detect the ones she hasn’t on. Matrimonially speaking, a girl has given up hope when she seriously con- siders a man who wears rubbers. Women love masterful men—outside of the immediate family circle. When a mani '$ that a woman listen to reason, he means listen to—him. Woman's gegrden of life is never com- plete without at least one bleeding heart. Love sharpens the wits, but dulls the judgment, Angie Oustey. comicbooks.com