Judge, 1914-04-11 · page 22 of 24
Judge — April 11, 1914 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotal pieces**, typical of Judge magazine's format. The cartoons are minimal; the main visual is a small sketch of two figures at a dinner table (labeled "Diary"). **The humor pieces** are domestic satires reflecting early 20th-century gender dynamics: 1. **"The Flower"**: A Wall Street husband's wife suspects him of giving flowers meant for her to a stenographer. The twist: he's actually giving them to a lovestruck office boy. The satire mocks wives' suspicions and office gossip. 2. **"Constant Activity"**: An exasperated husband fantasizes about cremating his perpetually talkative wife and placing her ashes in an hourglass so she'll literally keep moving forever. Dark humor at women's chattiness. Both jokes traffic in familiar period tropes: suspicious wives, straying husbands, office flirtations, and female chattiness—reflecting anxieties about changing gender roles and workplace dynamics of the 1910s era.
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This morning she had a rox<e, but she withheld the usual delicate attention, and for the first time he perceived an ominous look in her eyes. “You never have the flower in your buttonhole when you come home in the evenings,’’ began his wife sarcastically. “*How do you always contrive to lose it?’” “T do not lose it,’ he replied. “I wear the flower until I reach my des I feel that that is far enough for a plain busi- ness man to carry a flower.’’ “After reaching your desk, what do you do with the flower?” she asked. “T give it away,” he replied. “To the girl stenographer?” suggested his wife icily. “Oh, no; I give it to the office boy,’’ he answ “T beg your pardon, but you do not give it to the office boy,’’ she retorted, with acerbity. ‘‘You give it to the ste- nographer. I have seen it pinned on her shirtwaist every day that I have called at your office. I think I shal: discontinue the flower." “In that case I shall lose an office boy —probably by suicide,’’ remarked her husband, meeting her indignant eyes frankly. ‘‘He is head over heels in love with the stenographer, and is trying to make a hit with the flower.”” Hastily she pinned a rose to her hus- band’s lapel and said, “Be careful not to lose it—and give it to the office boy as usual."’—New York: Times. Constant Activity—An Oak Park lady tells this story about a long-suffering hus- band, whose wife seemed to be perpetu- ally wound up. After driving him almost frantic one evening with her conversa- tion, she remarked, ‘Thaddeus, I suppose when I die you'll have a mausoleum built in my memory?” “TL will do nothing of the sort,’’ re- turned the exasperated Thaddeus. ‘*When you die I will have you cremated and your ashes placed in an hourglass. Then you can keep on going forever.’’ — Chicago Inter Ocean. 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