Judge, 1914-10-31 · page 13 of 24
Judge — October 31, 1914 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century humor: **Top Cartoon:** Shows a novice golfer (brother of a club champion) embarrassed after borrowing his brother's equipment and clothes to learn the game. The satire mocks social pretension—attempting to pass oneself off as skilled in an exclusive sport. **Book Reviews Section:** Sarcastic critiques of contemporary novels by Rex Beach, Putnam Weale, and Gertrude Atherton. The humor relies on wordplay: "sex-cellent," "sexperiences," "sexaggerated," and "sextravagantly" mock Atherton's sensationalized depiction of Butte, Montana society women. **Comic Vignettes:** Brief humorous exchanges mocking workplace dynamics ("Done Properly") and Boston's educational trends ("Abstruse Cookery"—jokes about teaching calculus in cooking classes). **Bottom Illustration:** "His First Night at College" shows a young man's lonely dormitory scene, likely satirizing college life expectations versus reality. The page targets upper-class pretension, literary excess, and social aspirations typical of Judge's satirical voice.
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The brother of the club champion, having borrowed his brother's clothes and sticks to learn the game, meets some of the members of yesterday's gallery and finds the situation rather embarrassing. enforcements if she is to counteract the great page-turning movement of the al- lies. Indeed, so precarious is Herr Gon- tard-Schuck's ion on white slavery that our own military expert considers his line of communication with the public to be in serious danger of being cut off. Not even the Imperial White Papers can save it. ss, THE AUCTION BLOCK,”’ by Rex Beach. In this ex-serial Rex Beach, once purveyor of all that was frigid—love excepted—goes salamandering. Like Owen John- son, he uses the lights of Broad- way for his flames: but he spoils the lighting effect with a bonfire of driftwood, «« THE ETERNAL PRIESTESS,"’ by Putnam Weale. TI andering story of fast Shanghai life contains much that is instructive and amusing—in the chapter texts from Confucius and Chang Tzu. ««PERCH OF THE DEVIL,” by Gertrude Atherton, A sex- cellent story of native and exotic Sexperiences so sexaggerated that certain ladies of Butte, which pro- vides the more and less devilish characters, doubtless believe they have been sextravagantly libeled. Done Properly “*How is it you were so long over your work to-day?” she asked. “Sure, ma’am,”’ replied the servant, “you were watching me most of the time.’” To be as regular as a clock does not require one to move in circles, Abstruse Cookery “T see Boston girls are taking up culi- nary matters in the public schools.’” “Learning to cut the pie, I suppose, into conic sections."’ It may be true that a man’s sins will find him out, but it has been our observa- tion that they more often find him in, i |i Wi jit (i } HIS FIRST NIGHT AT COLLEGE comicbooks.com