Judge, 1914-08-08 · page 5 of 24
Judge — August 8, 1914 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon depicts three men in suits examining coastal property with fishing shacks visible behind them. The caption "REALISM" introduces a real-estate transaction joke: a wealthy buyer is being sold waterfront land, told it includes "a beautiful and heroic daughter" who "swims out and saves the pair of you." The humor satirizes deceptive real-estate marketing practices—promising impossible amenities alongside property. The surrounding text pieces ("The Bathing Girl," "The Illusion Dispelled," "Cutting It Short," etc.) are brief comic anecdotes about domestic life, marital misunderstandings, and social situations. These appear designed as filler humor rather than political commentary. The page primarily mocks early 20th-century consumer culture and marketing fraud through everyday scenarios rather than addressing specific political figures or events.
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Movie man—We'll wait for a howling gale; then you're to capsize half a mile out in the bay. 4: et, mH Ss ww NAP REALISM Sere My Sa bi Primi, Z a yh 7 ww a’ ny Your beautiful and heroic daughter—you've got a daughter, haven't you?—she'll row to the rescue and be capsized, too. Then along comes a devoted lover who swims out and saves the pair of you. Are you on? The Bathing Girl SAID she looked like Ve- nus, rising from the sea; But when I told her of it, she much was vexed with me. Not that she was so mod- est, as she observed; but, shoot! It seemed I hadn't noticed her stylish bathing suit! —Ted Robinson. Some Say: Brevity is the whole of wit. Adam had the first sparerib. In many promissory notes the ‘‘e’’ is silent. King Solomon was the Brigham Young of his time Vanity covers a multitude of skins— . with cosmetics. Unconvinced “Do you really think that there is nothing in a name?”’ “Yes, Ido.” “Well, I don’t agree with you.’’ “Why not?”” “Because all of the property that I used to have is in my wife’s!”’ The Illusion Dispelled I raved of the fair Mignonette And thought her the shapeliest yet; But—this is between us— I know she’s no Venus, Since I've seen her ‘‘en silhouette.” Too Bad Mrs. Gramercy—| suppose you feel the business depression. Mrs. Park—It's just terrible, my dear! We're still using our last year’s car. Cotting It Short WHY are you fooling so long with that clock, Hortense?”’ “T am cleaning its hands, madam.’’ “Well, just wipe ‘em. You needn’t manicure em." On the Summer Boarding House Piazza “‘Billson yonder tells me he trusts his wife implicitly and absolutely, but’’—— “Well?” ““Well, [notice he carries his change and his fishhooks loose in the same pocket.’” Some Day—Maybe His wife toils at her desk from morn to night, And life in summer's robbed of all de- light. She has to grind from day to day, while he The heated term is spending by the sea! comicbooks.com