Judge, 1914-07-18 · page 14 of 24
Judge — July 18, 1914 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes the nosiness of Mrs. Peeke, a self-proclaimed non-gossip who proceeds to obsessively catalog her new neighbors' private details: milk consumption, grocery purchases, laundry habits, coal deliveries, and even the timing of their gas usage. The humor lies in her transparent hypocrisy—she repeatedly insists "I'm not one to pry" while doing exactly that, monitoring their visitor (an elderly woman she suspects indicates a private hospital) and a telegram delivery boy. The satirical point: intrusive neighbors who disguise their meddling as innocent observation. "That ain't my way," she concludes while having thoroughly invaded the Bennsons' privacy. The "Judge's Motion Pictures" film strips below appear unrelated—various comedic vignettes about weight, exercise, and modern life—forming the magazine's typical mixed-content format.
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Not Her Way «WHO HAS moved into the house next to yours, Mrs, Peeke?’’ asked the neighbor across the street, who had run over for information regarding the newcomers, “*I] don’t know, only that their name is Benn- ‘son. The postman told me that, but it was all T could get out of him about them. But, then, I'm not one to pry into the affairs of folks who come into the neighborhood. I notice that AX, they take only one quart of milk a day, soI think the family must be small or else they use mighty little milk. I noticed the groceryman leaving things there to-day, and he had what couldn’t have been more than a couple of quarts of apples in his basket and something that looked like a small leg of lamb. I didn’t have on my far-sighted glasses, and before I could find them, he had got into the house. But, then, of course, it was nothing tome. They haven’t put in but one small load of coal, and they had such a small wash on the line yesterday that the . family can’t be so very large or e’se they don’t change their On for my county. Wasa tibetinoble? y Loy—Oh, I dunno! Most anybody that's going to be bung would sheets every week, and they must be awfully saving on towels sooner have a few more lives! JUDGE'S MOTION PICTURES and napkins, which is some- thing Ineverskimpon. Some one called there with an auto yesterday. Hehadanold lady with him who seemed real feeble, and she didn’t come out with him when he went away at the end of an hour, for I never left the window once. I hope no one is going to open a private hospital that close to our house. Isaw a messenger boy go there with a telegram, and he stayed so Teacher—Ana Nathan Hale said, ‘' I only regret that I have but one life long I made up my mind they at was having trouble to find the be money to pay for it, although, p of course, there may have been i some other reason. I ain't . one to insinuate things about my neighbors. I notice that they turn their gas out in the ( front hall at about nine every night, and last night they turned it out at twenty-two minutes after eight, so I take it that they are mighty saving of gas. I’venever seen them take any ice yet, and I have watched the iceman every time he has come around. But, then, some folks don’t take ice in the wintertime; but I find that I need it then almost as much as any other time. I didn’t see them take in any refriger- ator when their other things was put in. But, then, I never waste my time pay- ing attention to new neigh- bors. That ain't my way." A Weighty Subject with a Light Moral —Maz Merryman. comicbooks.com