Judge, 1914-05-02 · page 16 of 41
Judge — May 2, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This 1914 satirical page mocks contemporary fashion and social trends through multiple cartoons and verses. **Top cartoon**: "Paris Influence in the Colonies" ridicules the high-waisted "Empire" silhouette fashionable among colonists, depicted as an absurdly exaggerated corset line on a woman. **"Saith the Prophet"**: Satirizes female hypocrisy about clothing. A woman initially denounces slit skirts as shameful, then adopts them herself—mocking the rapid acceptance of scandalous fashions once they become trendy. **Other pieces** include humorous domestic dialogues: a "Grand Larceny" about stolen kisses, a "near-sighted husband" complaining about indecent skirts, and "The Wiles of the Weaker" (women manipulating men). **"Change of Policy Looked For"** sardonically suggests a thirty-five-year-old unmarried woman should abandon her "Watchful Waiting" approach and adopt aggressive dating tactics to find a husband. The overall message: Judge critiques women's fashion obsession, moral flexibility, and romantic scheming as foolish or duplicitous.
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Liinfluence Parisienne dans nos colonies. La ceinture Empire. The Paris influeace in the colonies—the high empire waist line. At the Orphan Asylum Grand Larceny YE, ma’am, I am a little orphan; Madge—He stole But I ’t always been this way. 4 kiss from me! I used to have a pa and mother, M —Well And then I come up here to stay. as ‘osin petit Yes, ma'am, it’s sad to be a orphan; larceny. a os * But I ain’t sad like Willie Ball, Madge — It *was- Le mari myope—Je ne veux pas paraitre trop severe, cherie mais Because he used to have a mother, n't; it was grand. ton jupon est absolument indecent. But never had no pa at all! Near-sighted husband—I don't want to seem severe, my dear, —William J. Lampton. : 4 ‘ Conversion but your skirt is absolutely indecent. Saith the Prophet When first I heard that skirts were slit, The Wiles of the Weaker Every pretty girl is aware of the fact, | vowed that / would none of it. ., . . but no young man who mentions it to her | swore it was a monstrous shame; A COLLEGE youth just returned from will be censured. Now—all my skirts are slit the same. a hunting trip called one evening on the lady then brightest in his many-flamed sky. During a lull in the chatter he proffered a request for what was once— long, long ago—technically known as ‘“‘a chaste salute.’’ “Jack,’’ she said, ‘‘if you kiss me, I'll tell dad."" Jack laughed at the threat and pecked at the lady, whereupon she scurried up- stairs, leaving the lad in considerable she cooed timidly through the tobacco smoke, ‘‘Jack’s downstairs just home from a hunting trip. He'd like to see that new gun of yours.’” “‘Allright,’’ grunted dad, and descended: the stairs, gun in hand. Jack departed immediately—sans hat, _ Sans overcoat, sans cane—and was seen SBERT RAM MARTMANTes “no more. William Laird. Change of Policy Looked For She’s all of thirty-five and not engaged, While younger maids, on every hand, are mating. She’ll change her policy scon, it is pre- saged. Thus far it has been one of ‘‘ Watchful Waiting.” A. D. 1914 Sansome “* Aimez vous Kipling?” ‘Comment le danse -t_ on?” Train the greenest of girls ‘‘in the way “Do you like Kipling?" —* How do you dance it?” she should go’’—and she goes. comicbooks.com