Judge, 1913-08-30 · page 13 of 24
Judge — August 30, 1913 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains multiple satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century social conventions and gender relations. **Main Cartoon**: Three figures illustrate "Taking an Unfair Advantage"—a woman, a man in a suit and hat, and another man. The title suggests commentary on social manipulation, likely depicting how cigarettes (personified in the left poem) were used as social props to gain romantic or social advantage. **The Poems**: "The Flirtatious Cigarette" personifies smoking as a seductive force used to win over "Marie," "Rose," and "Tessie," satirizing how cigarettes functioned as social lubricants in courtship. The other verses mock various social types—the pessimistic millionaire, the insatiable woman from Michigan, fashionable bathing suits, and a man who exposes himself to distract attention from his wife's revealing clothes. **The Jokes**: These mock contemporary social anxieties: divorce, consumerism, women's fashion, and changing gender dynamics—all suggesting that modern conveniences and fashion were destabilizing traditional social order.
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TAKING AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE , The Flirtatious Cigarette I SWIRL and curl in banquet halls, Join fumes with dazing wine; The famous and the infamous Are devotees of mine. I rise and fall in filmy wreaths Where soft lights shed their beams, And add a breath of incense rare To dopeful dizzy dreams. o © © «© -@ «6 I've long compelled companionship Witb lofty men and low; Ambition-spurred, I now essay To dazzle as a beau. Successes are attending me, With conquests and caresses— I kiss Marie, I flirt with Rose, And reek in Tessie’s tresses. Hubert Kotterman, Different Gramercy—So your wife is going to sue for a divorce. Did she meet her affinity while away in the country? Park—No. When she came back she Pellets of Pessimism THE village millionaire is a gent with ten thousand dollars and a redun- dancy of abdomen. An epigram is a sneer in evening dress. It is an automobile to the luckless few who have none, a touring car to the for- tunate many who have. Expurgate-—To take the fun out of. Reformer—A disappointed patriot. The pessimist is convinced that it can- not be done because he is unable to give it his personal attention. Insatiable There was a young lady from Michigan, To meet her I never would wishigan. She would eat of ice cream Till with pain she would scream, Then order another big dishigan. A Submarine Discussion ‘‘Won’t these tight-skirt bathing suits scare the fishes?"’ “No, indeed! maids set.”” It’s a fashion the mer- A Hero's Sacrifice ‘ «GOODNESS gracious alive, George!"’ exclaims the wife, when her hus- band appears at her side on the street, attired in a sleeveless undershirt, short unmentionables, oxford shoes, a hat and nothing else. ‘‘Have you gone crazy? Why, look how the people all stare at you and talk about you! You are making us ridiculously conspicuous.’* “That’a all right, darling,’’ the brave man answers. ‘‘I’ve got so darned tired of the way other people rubber at you in your thin clothes that I concluded to do something in the same line and distract their attention, At that, I’ve got pretty near as much clothes on as you have.’” A Smoker's Paradise A quiet nook from all life’s b ani bluff, Hanne A jimmy pipe and plenty of the stuff With which to weave a wealth of golden dreams Is all he asks for, and is quite enough! Smoke rings never get in bad. com icbooks.com