Judge, 1913-08-09 · page 6 of 24
Judge — August 9, 1913 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon ("A Germanic Answer"):** This satirical narrative depicts a marital dispute involving a husband planning to meet a chorus girl under the guise of golf. A wise foreign advisor (suggested by the "Germanic" accent in dialogue) counsels the neglected wife to write a seductive note luring her husband to a tavern instead, where she'll wear negligee and reconcile with him over dinner. The satire targets both the husband's infidelity and the era's gender dynamics—portraying women as strategically manipulative yet emotionally justified, while men are depicted as easily deceived by romantic scheming. **Secondary Content:** Brief humor sketches ("Just Like It," "Pugilistic," "Simple Arithmetic") use baseball metaphors and wordplay typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines. **Social Context:** The page reflects period anxieties about urban leisure, marital fidelity, and the "chorus girl" phenomenon—actresses/performers associated with extramarital temptation. The foreign advisor character likely plays on contemporary ethnic stereotypes while delivering "worldly wisdom."
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make it gay for the husband? No. She shops. She is tired. She is busy thinking what to spend her husband's money for. For the first time for weeks the husband is at leisure. He is delight. He brace up. He gets theater tickets, orders taxi- cabs, excellent dinners. Madam takes it all as a matter of course. When monsieur would pet her, she is cool. She— what you call it—refrigerates him. So he find himself lonely, disappointed, and go home broke. “‘Again the husband comes to the city—this time with a pretty girl friend. Is she cool? No. Is she busy, shop, shop? No. She joy-rides, goes to theater with him, smiles and smiles and smiles at monsieur at dinner. When it is over, he has spent his money, but he has had good time. You think he not notice the differ-r-ence?”’ “Horrors! Nothing could justify such conduct in a man!"" “Bat it happens so often, madam."’ “Wives are so often misunderstood by their husbands. No man understands a woman."’ “But every woman understands every man, madam. We pretend that love is woman's whole existence—I have read that in a story—but it is not true. We are calculating. A man is all sentiment—under his s He can be led. A wife must lead. To lead, she must love him.” “But my husband is coming here to-day to meet a chorus girl—that is, he came here to play golf, and she is coming out in his car later. The plan was reported to me, and I came here to confront him; then I shall leave him.’’ “Will madam be advised by me?"’ “*You seem to have queer views, but you seem sensible. Yes. What.am I to do?” “IT will bring you paper and pen. You are to write a note to monsieur. I will cause it to be delivered to him on the golf links. In the note you are to say that you are in Room 22 of this tavern and he must come to you.”” “Oh, I could not do that! What would he say?"" “You will be the one to say. He will come, never fear—- . , scared to death. You are to say that you got lonely for him, . (B SERMARIC ANSWER that you wanted to have a lark with him, that you wanted to Patter Teal 6 sinh ral all over my feet! standing? get away from home, where you could be all by yourselves.” TRAE N IT SoD S Toate werd te eer ee “*But dare I do it?’’ “You cannot—pardon, madam—do anything else. At first he will be scared, then puzzled, then a little angry; then he will note that madam has on a pretty negligee costume—which I will furnish you—and he will take you in his arms and you will come to a happy understanding. After a good dinner, you will motor home in the moonlight.’’ “*And the chorus girl?"" “*1 will meet her.”’ “Give me the pen and paper. Hurry!”” Just Like It He—There are nine members of my family, and we are just like a baseball tea She—What position does your father play? He—Father is the pitcher—the other eight support him. She—And your mother? He—She is the catcher. Whenever anything happens, mother always catches it. ‘ She—What a queer family—just like a ball team! He—Yes; we live on a farm, and my little brothers play in the outfield. Simple Arithmetic ‘Why do some people count on their fingers, do you suppose?” PUGILISTIC “Because they’re the handiest thing, I guess.'’ ‘The first event of the evening was a heavyweight struggle ending in a draw. comicbooks.com