Judge, 1913-10-25 · page 14 of 24
Judge — October 25, 1913 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents three separate satirical pieces from Judge magazine's "Motion Pictures" section (early cinema-style illustrated humor): 1. **"Getting Rid of a Cat"** (top): A wordless comic strip showing various failed methods of removing a cat, ending with the caption "there are more ways than one"—satirizing both the cat's resilience and human futility. 2. **"The Retort Professional"**: A dialogue joke mocking pretentious writers. An author boasts of writing for "better magazines," and the editor deflates him by asking if he actually *got* published there—suggesting the author's claim is empty bluster. 3. **"Negligible"** and **"Owned Up"**: Two short jokes about automobiles destroying humility (with a rural character dismissing this concern) and a hack writer profiting from sex-hygiene books. These are typical Judge satire: attacking professional pretension, rural ignorance, and contemporary social anxieties (automobiles, publishing, sexual education). The humor relies on recognizable character types and punchy comedowns of inflated claims.
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JUDGE'S MOTION PICTURES Getting Rid of a Cat: The Retort Professional Author—I would have you know, sir, that I have written for better magazines than yours! Editor—And did you get them? Some excuses are so clever that they absolve one for consequences of failure. \T ALWAYS Negligible ee THEY tell me,’’ said Mr. Bobbetts, “that the automobile is absolutely destructive of humility.’’ “Wa-al, that ain’t much of an objec- tion,”’ said the rural sage. ‘‘They ain't so much humility left in the land these days thet the loss of it'll come to much."” AND THERES NO USE There are more ways than one “LT hear you're writing books on sex hygiene."? “Yes,” replied the hack writer, with achuckle, ‘I've struck pay dirt at last."” Of the two kinds of blowers the old- fashioned bellows is less annoying. comicbooks.com