Judge, 1914-06-06 · page 7 of 24
Judge — June 6, 1914 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes middle-class married life and domestic economy through absurdist "study questions." The main cartoon depicts a sailor returning home, likely the visual punchline to the title. The left column mocks wives' financial contradictions—saving pennies while buying expensive rugs, or the husband ending up "in the poorhouse" despite her economizing. The math problems are deliberately nonsensical (mixing cocktails, lampposts, and larceny to "find the way home"), ridiculing the period's obsession with quantifying domestic matters. The right column's "Activities in Lumber" and "Hard to Stand" sections contain working-class vignettes—picket duty, lodging payments, lumber work—contrasting with upper-middle-class concerns above. The brief dialogue between Anna and Fannie about a marriage proposal mocks romantic conventions. Overall, this attacks both domestic economy obsession and class pretensions through absurdist humor typical of Judge's satirical style.
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WHEN HIS SHIP Questions for the Study of Matrimony Activities in Lumbzr Wir is a mother-in-law? Doing picket duty. | Find the romance in a snore—in a _Singing a stave. pair of bare feet—in a burnt steak. Paying a board bill. If a woman saves seventeen cents a Planking down money. week by purchasing $38 rugs reduced to | Watching a sun beam. $37.83, how many weeks before she will Reading the ‘‘Post.’” have saved sufficient money to pay her Molding a character. husband's way to the poorhouse? Framing up a story. Give the zigzag measurements for a Wearing a sash. chalk line running from the head of the Leading the blind. stairs to the head of the house at two Instructing a Pole. a. m., mean rounder time, Breaking out with the In a mixture of three good fellows, shingles. five horse’s necks, sixteen glasses of ' lager, seven Manhattans, two revolving Hard to Stand | lampposts and a front door, find the way Skids—It’s not every one home. who can atand prosperity. If the contents of a trousers pocket Skittles — Particularly if assay seventeen cents in small change to it’s some one else’s. the ton of key rings, jackknives and beer checks, how many nights of petit larceny Anna—Did he make a bid on the part of a better half will it re- for your hand? . ’ quire to buy her a new fall hat? Fannie—Yes;andthe pro- The oldsit oxe—He’s been to bir hots so aay tines, seems “stuart B.Stone, posal was sealed with a kiss. Torter speak to him. comicbooks.com