Judge, 1914-10-10 · page 5 of 24
Judge — October 10, 1914 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical vignettes about marriage and gender relations, typical of early 20th-century humor. The main cartoon "Polishing Him" depicts a woman instructing her husband in various social accomplishments—tango dancing, bridge, and cigarette smoking—suggesting wives' efforts to "civilize" or refine their spouses. The accompanying jokes mock conventional marital dynamics: husbands' financial concerns, wives' managing tendencies, and the impossibility of reforming men through marriage. The illustration at bottom right, "Yachting Term," shows a rotund woman in a large dress described as "a fine spread of canvas"—a crude visual pun comparing her physique to sailing equipment. The humor reflects period attitudes about gender roles, wealth, and marital struggle, presenting wives as civilizing forces and husbands as resistant subjects requiring improvement.
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Has. fp “Did Estelle marry beneath her?” Quasi-quips VEN in business it is well to be fired with zeal—otherwise you may be fired with rapidity. The devil will have People who rule the roost like to crow about it. He who has a bee in his bonnet often gets stung. Some people take bushels of pains to keep out of a peck of trouble. People who do things by halves secure fractional results. It's natural for a man to desire to stut- ter when he pronounces his own doom, Conscience may make cowards of us all, but it’s the gallery that makes a lot of heroes, All's fair in love—yet you can’t con- vince the wife of it when her husband’s stenographer is an attractive brunette. It’s sheer nonsense to claim that Truth lies at the bottom of a well. Truth never lies, —Don Bregenzer. A Reservation “Tell me, dearest—would you marry a Spendthrift “Surely—if he had the thrift.” Her Part : “She's fond of acting, isn’t she?” “Yes, indeed. She plays the mischief with a fellow!"” POLISHING HIM “Dear me, yes! A Misplaced Compliment She—I don’t see Bennie Beanbrough with that pretty country girl any more. He—No; in being too anxious to please her, he precipitated an estrangement. She—How did he do that? He—She is very much in- terested in painting. She—So I understand. She had to teach him tango, bridge and cigarettes!" Some Little Manager “Is your son’s wife a good manager?’’ “Yes, She manages to make him jump whenever she gives him an order, which is more than I ever was able to do.’” He—Well, one day she took him to see some of her pictures. on exhibition at the county fair. She—Did he them? He—He at least tried to pay the girl a compliment. She--Indeed? He — Yes. He said, “They all look like the work of Rubens,’’ and she hasn't spoken to him since. admire The Exception He—The trouble with the average married woman is that she hasn’t enough to do to keep her busy. She—No, not unless she has married a man to re- form him. Not opportunity, but its use, is the test of a man. YACHTING TERM: A PINE SPREAD OF CANVAS . * comicbooks.com