Judge, 1914-09-19 · page 12 of 24
Judge — September 19, 1914 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. **Main cartoons:** 1. **"Hated Rivals"** (top right): A sketch of two women kissing, illustrating the "Jestification" about romantic encounters and the flirtation theme. 2. **"Twenty-Passenger Car"** (center-left): A large illustration showing an impossibly crowded touring automobile, satirizing the absurdity of wealthy people buying expensive cars while claiming to economize on trolley fares—a joke about contradictory spending habits during the high cost of living. **Short jokes and observations** include: - Wordplay about flirting and winking - Medical commentary on germ-laden kisses - Commentary on women's suffrage ("suffragettes") - Domestic humor about marriage and nagging wives - A post-WWI joke equating Europe's map to abstract cubist art The overall tone mocks contemporary social issues, fashion, economics, and gender relations with light sarcasm rather than sharp political critique.
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From a Jester’s Notebook Jestification THEY call me a flirt, all because—so they say— I wink at each maiden that crosses my way; But how in the dickens, however he try, “\ Can a chap help a wink with a girl in his eye? The doctors are suggest- ~_ ing that, inasmuch as there are microbes in the kiss, _ lovers should hereafter rub noses when they meet. Well, we are willing to try it; but every nose should be provided with an emer- gency brake as a safeguard against skid- ding, just the same. The humaner classes of people all the world over are advocating the abolition of the gallows, the guillotine and the electric chair. As a substitute, why would it not be a good idea to tickle criminals to death? Bildad says that, after listening to the arguments of some suffragettes, he is convinced that the movement is designed for no other purpose than to turna proper goose into a propaganda. We have ad- vised him to send his wise observation to the editor of some British humorous pub- lication, where epigrams of that peculiar kind are most appreciated. Speaking of the high cost of living, some people’s idea of economy seems to HATED RIVALS be to run a sixty-horsepower touring car in order to save trolley fares. There is one thing, saith the philoso. pher Epicuremus, that all men should re- member, my son, and that is that there is nothing green about the average grass- widow, and she is so called because she makes her hay while the sun shineth and is unadorned with weeds, Some women discover after marriage that it takes more than a short stick with a small head to make a good match. The Old-fashioned S Sort of like those letters queer Printers used in days of yore. Kind of fills me up with cheer, As I sit and look them o'er. Take the ‘‘f'’s they used for ‘ Don't you see it makes the Look like nothing more nor less Than a glorious bit of ‘‘fun’’? Yes—the ‘‘fun’’ that I am after Fills the world with light and laughter. —Horace Dodd Gastit Never Knew the Difference Smith—H. Peck went onasilence strike the other day, but it did no good. Thomas—Why not? Smith—Mrs. H. Peck wouldn't stop talking long enough to notice it. After the War “Is this a cubist painting?”’ “‘No; it’s the map of Europe."’ comicbooks.com