Judge, 1914-09-05 · page 10 of 24
Judge — September 5, 1914 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts a lively barn dance in a garage—a modern, working-class alternative to formal ballroom dancing. The setting satirizes how "barn dances are going out," suggesting that even rural or casual entertainment is becoming urbanized and commercialized. Visible are refreshment stands advertising mundane items (rubber raincoats, sausages, safety cloth) and "prizes," mocking how even informal social gatherings now involve commercial transactions. The accompanying text features humorous domestic vignettes: a woman's romantic musings about a French suitor, a witty exchange where Miss Lenore insults Mr. Bore's memory capacity, and period jokes about women's fashion (the "blouse" and "basque" corset challenges). Overall, the page satirizes early 20th-century social pretension, commercialization of leisure, and gender relations—poking fun at both bohemian affectations and stuffy propriety while mocking modern women navigating conflicting fashion demands.
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THE worry) and sip suitable wines, and the orchestra plays very softly in the dis- tance, 8o as not to spoil the musical tin- kle-tinkle, splash- splash of the little fountain that splut- ters in its ornamental marble basin, where the goldfishes look stupider than any I have ever seen, which shows that they are as they should be! I feel at peace with all the world, and when the maitre d’hotel finally brings coffee and peach brandy, and when, at my request, the Boy-who-is- nearly-a-relation lights a deliciously fra- grant Corona-Corona, to keep off the buzzy beasts that bite, I am perfectly happy and lean back in my chair and let my eyes be quite summerly affectionate. One never feels affectionate quite the same way in winter, you know; that’s why I call it ‘‘summerly’’ so. Then sometimes the Boy gets silly and tries to grab my hand across the table and knocks over his liqueur glass and says, ‘‘Bon Dieu, Sue, won’t-chew-beleeve-I’m-crazy-about- chew?”’ and I give a stage ‘‘Ha-ha!’’ and say, ‘Bless the Boy, he’s mad!"’ GARAGE DANCE—BARN DANCES ARE Reely and trooly, though, I think, right down in my heart, that it's very nice of him to be crazy, and I’d love him for it if only I wasn’t afraid to. Once bitten... you know! But, goodness me! how brazen I am telling U things like this, and we've only been acquainted a little while! But, then, I always was frank, and I am so especi- ally when my hair is down and I'm wear- ing an old kimono. However, I shouldn’t like you to run away with the wrong impression. I'm quite NICE, really I am. I have three parsons’ wives amongst my friends, and on Tuesday afternoons I sew undergarments for the Poor Heathens. So you see! Respectably yours, Sue Zannan. Exceptional Mr. Bore—I don’t see why people keep diaries, do you? Miss Lenore— Why, to write down their thoughts, keep a record of their affairs and. Mr. Bore (interrupting her) —But that’s all foolishness. I can keep those in my head. Miss Lenore—That's a very good way; but, then, not everybody has the room! REFRESHMENTS ZA RUBBER RARE OTS Four CLINOER Sausrce STEWED KNUCKLE JOINTS BEANS ALA Hus SAPETY CLUTH Stn GOING OUT What Shall You Do? HE BLOUSE of to-day puffs and sags, The gowns are less shapely than bags, So how do you think You are going to shrink And be fit for next season’s glad rags? For the basque that compresses the waist Is coming, they tell us, posthaste; But how will you squeeze Yourself into it, please, If your waistline is lost or misplaced? —Grace McKinstry. A Test “When I wants to be plumb sadisfied in muh mind dat a sistah has done been converted and not dess merely pollyfoxin’ to be pop’lar,’’ confessed sage old Parson Bagster, ‘I takes her husband to one side and tells him to let a wet dog into de parlor de fust time it rains.”* Sporty Hole Putter--Those Englishmen say Ameri- can golf courses are tooeasy. Guess they never played our seventh hole! Rutter—What you got on it? Putter A black-fly brook, two mos- quito swamps and four hornets’ nests alongside the big bunker. comicbooks.com