Judge, 1913-10-25 · page 13 of 24
Judge — October 25, 1913 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Her Wisdom"** mocks traditional marriage advice, with Aunt Broadhead counseling young women to marry early and stay married by "feeding" and forgiving their husbands—treating wives as subordinate. **"His Ambition"** ridicules working-class male aspirations, depicting a man rejecting soldiering, Western adventure, and circus work to become a picture-show proprietor so his children can attend movies freely—satirizing how new entertainment mediums distracted from "respectable" ambitions. **"Poor Solomon"** jokes that even King Solomon, despite biblical wisdom, finds modern life repetitive after attending multiple movies and comedies—mocking contemporary mass entertainment's superficiality. **"Interested Her"** presents a young woman unromantically focused on acquiring Mexican craft instructions rather than caring about her suitor's military service—light satire of women's practical materialism. The page satirizes marriage dynamics, class ambitions, entertainment culture, and gender relations through genteel humor typical of Judge's readership.
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«e(QIRLS!”"* called good old Aunt Broad- head. “‘Ma’am?"’ they answered, as they flut- tered around her. ‘Having in my time married and buried four husbands,’’ quietly said the excel- lent dame, ‘‘I am persuaded that how a man conducts himself at the wedding is not half so important as how he behaves after that event. And I have found this recipe a sure one for the preservation of domestic tranquillity: ‘Feed him and for- give him.’ That is all, except that it is well to marry early and stay married late.”” The Gaits Thisisthewayhespeededalong, Atfortymilesanhour-- This the pace he walked back home, When busted was his power. In a Way Gladys—Did the hostess put you next to Mr. Verifast at the dinner last night? May—Well, I should murmur! She told me his whole awful past. THE IDEA! Become a suffragette? Never! I believe the husband should be supreme, and I let John do as he pleases. His Ambition AIN't a-goin’ to be a soldier—no, Not even a general, though it’s great to go To war an’ kill a hundred men or so, An’ I ain’t goin’ to go away out West, Where they is Injuns, cowboys an’ the rest, Though I uster think that that ’ud be the best. Nor I sha'n’t be the clown in the circus when They all can't ride the mule but him, an’ then They all try to, an’ get bucked off again. No, sir! show— The very swellest kind they is, yo’ know— So's, whenever they feel like it, my kids can go! I'm going to run a picture Virginia Clearer Racon, Against Reciprocity Good-by to our country relations! Our grieving hearts break till they splinter. Meanwhile we make firm resolution To close the flat to them next winter. —MeLandburgh Wilson, Don't I, John? Speak up! Poor Solomon ee KING SOLOMON was dictating to me to-day,’’ said the court sten- ographer, ‘‘and he surely had a grouch. He said for me to get his words down just exactly as he spoke them: ‘There is no new thing under the sun—no, not one.’ ’” “‘What got him in that mood?” asked the court chamberlain. ‘ “He had been to four moving-picture shows a day for the past week, also had seen six musical comedies and a file of Sunday comic supplements.’’ Interested Her “*Well,’’ sadly sighs the young man, “there is nothing left for me but to try to forget. I shall enlist in the army and go to Mexico.’” 2 “How splendid!’’ she exclaims. ‘‘And do this for me, Harold,’’ she purrs, while his eyes begin to regain their gleam of interest; ‘“‘when you get to Mexico, find out how they do that Mexican drawn work and send me the directions.” The great divide—Graft. comicbooks.com