Judge, 1914-09-19 · page 6 of 24
Judge — September 19, 1914 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes **marriage and domestic relations** through women's perspectives. The main story features Mrs. Marrimore describing three marriages, each representing different relationship dynamics: the first husband who loved her too much, the second she had to serve excessively, and the third who remains perpetually dissatisfied despite her careful middle-ground approach. The satire targets the **impossible position of wives**—no strategy satisfies a husband. The concluding joke by Miss Hazel Hungrehart suggests women are "overfed on husbands" and should step aside, likely a jab at competition for marriage prospects. The bottom cartoon, "Circumstantial Evidence," shows a man discovering a woman bathing—a cheeky visual gag playing on the phrase's double meaning. "The Goat's Dream" is a whimsical poem about a goat dreaming of stealing unguarded laundry and food, a humorous fantasy. The overall theme: **marriage dissatisfaction and women's domestic entrapment**, presented through humor typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines.
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cause he ate garlic, I concealed a but- ton of it in my rat, in hopes that he would make some loverlike comment upon the fragrance of my hair. But’’- her voice trembled slightly —‘the didn’t.”” “He must have been a kindhearted man,"’ murmured Mrs. Gig- glever, ‘‘or he'd have told her to take the rat out and bury it.’" “Finding that neither too much love nor too little was advisable, when my second passed away"—— “I wonder what she uses,’ queried Mrs. Abie Lune, behind her hand; *‘rough-on-rats or legal talent? I is safe, I'd like to have the recipe “I resolved to adopt a middle course with my third,’’ read Mrs. Marrimore. ‘I love him too much to permit him to wear ragged clothes, but not enough to patch them. I make him buy new ones. I do not care so little that I would suffer him to go hungry, yet I wish sometimes I were you. no will make us one. my affection is not sufficient to stand the strain of cooking pig knuckles and sauer- kraut for him. I feed him on the things CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE “Ab! Susanna at the bath! 1 wonder where she could be hidden ? I like. I am not so indifferent that I'd refuse to kiss him, nor so foolishly fond that I seek to caress him n he looks as though he could bite nai The reader stopped and gazed sadly at her auditors, **How does it work?’’ eagerly asked Mrs. Buncom-Squint. “It doesn’t work at all.’? Mrs, Marri- more dropped her paper and took refuge in herhandkerchief. “My first was happy slaving for me, my second seemed con tented to have me slave for him, but my third’’—she wept—'‘ growls all the time." “ “And what is your deduction?” in- quired Madam President, looking at her watch. “That singleness is bliss and matri- mony a blister,’’ answered Mrs. Marri- more tearfully. ‘‘Humph!”’ sniffed Miss Hazel Hungre- hart. ‘*You’re overfed on husbands, that’s all. Why don’t you back away from the table and give others a chance?” The Goat's Dream I DREAM of gates left open, And yards where one can see Long lines, with which they're ropen, Stretching from tree to tree; And there—it is too clever!— I feast without endeavor, Plucking the fruit, unsoapen, Some lady left for me. First comes a dainty scallop, Then frills of lace and lawn, And then a gown—a wallop Of Swiss with ribbon draw: To dream of such! then, waking, Find here an empty aching, Or, in the yard, some ‘‘doll’’ up Gathering the goods at dawn! =—Maitiom Cowein, comicbooks.com