Judge, 1914-06-20 · page 9 of 24
Judge — June 20, 1914 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge presents multiple brief satirical pieces reflecting early 20th-century American attitudes: **"Uncle Fogy's Philosophy"** offers cynical observations on human nature—laziness mistaken for faith, society's obsession with fads, the futility of reforming spouses through marriage. **"Lines by the American Tenant of an English Castle"** satirizes wealthy Americans purchasing English estates, boasting of modernizing ("We dance the tango in the keep") formerly dignified ancestral homes—poking fun at American nouveau riche displacing British aristocracy. **The cartoon vignettes** mock contemporary concerns: a shopper's confusion about hosiery durability (with crude double entendre about "filling"), a woman's sardonic rejection citing "yourself and another man" (humor at male ego's expense), and wordplay linking patrimony→matrimony→testimony→alimony (suggesting marriage inevitably leads to divorce litigation). **"The Drawing Room of 1914 Tangoed"** (top illustration) likely critiques the era's dance crazes disrupting formal society spaces. The overall tone reflects period cynicism about marriage, wealth, modernization, and social pretension.
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THE Uncle Fogy’s Philosophy , HEN the worm turns, that is all he accomplishes. One commendable thing about the min- strels is that they never try experiments on us. Laziness is frequently ~! mistaken for faith. To its possessor, con- ceit is as satisfactory as wisdom, The statement that so- ciety is agog is simply a < ~~“ gag. Don’t organize a procession, unless you can keep up with it. There are two kinds of women: The fashionable ones and those who are com- fortable. A woman would hardly marry a bow- legged man to reform him, and there are several other varieties of misshapen mas- culinity that it is just as futile to attempt to mend by means of matrimony. Tom P. Morgan. Lines by the American Tenant of an English Castle Although the former owners weep, 1 cannot help but gloat; We dance the tango in the keep, And motor round the moat! DRAWING ROOM OF 1914 TANGOED An Important Point ««GEEMS to me these stockings are rather flimsy,’’ said the man who was shopping for his wife. ‘Will they stand much strain?” “Well, I don’t know,’’ responded the clerk dubiously. ‘‘Will they —er— be extra well filled?”’ MOE'S o § MOVIES: $ Either a Good Enough Reason She—If you insist upon knowing, there are two reasons why I can’t marry you. He—And they are? She—Yourself and another man. Patrimony, matrimony, testimony ard alimony —a sequence in modern life, Wil Hi Manager—Three ot four of you can come in now. comicbooks.com