Judge, 1915-04-24 · page 7 of 24
Judge — April 24, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two satirical pieces from Judge magazine satirizing social pretense and deception. **"The Squealer"** depicts a narrator who deceived his aunt by fabricating acquaintances with prominent figures (Macheller, Glagg, Ida Harbell, and "President Helliot"—likely fictional or obscure references) to impress her. When two men he claimed to know arrived and couldn't maintain the humorist personas he'd attributed to them, his aunt realized the deception. The cartoon shows a mounted police officer confronting a street scene, visualizing the "squealing" on the narrator's lies. The satire mocks social climbing through false associations. **"Make and Break"** is a brief joke about female extravagance: while "seven tailors make a man," one milliner (hat-maker) can financially ruin him—commentary on women's spending habits, a common satirical theme of the era. Both pieces ridicule dishonesty and vanity in social situations.
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occurrence certainly saved the day for me. “When I returned, bearing a bowl of baked apple in either hand, my friends made their bows and sought their seats. “T glanced at my aunt triumphantly, but what was my astonishment to be greeted with a frown, and I saw that she was gath- ering her things about her and preparing to rise. “**I don't want any des- sert,’ she said curtly. ‘I want to go.” “I set the dishes down meekly, held her wrap for her and followed her to the door. I smiled again, though feebly, at the cashier as I paid my check, and heard her remark scorchingly to the manager, ‘I ain't personally acquainted with any well-dressed feller that blows his mother to a twenty-cent meal.’ “‘What's the matter, aunty?’ I said, as soon as we THE SQUEALER got outside. She turned on me sharply. ‘I have been deceived,’ she said. ‘You have taken advantage of my credulity in a way that I can never forgive.’ “*She was evidently not in the mood to be questioned, and I hardly dared break the silence as we walked up the street toward my lodgings. MAKE AND BREAK “They say, dear, that it takes seven tailors to make a man." “And I say that one milliner can break him."’ ‘Suddenly she burst forth again. ‘I be- lieved in Mr. Macheller,’ she said, ‘and Mr. Glagg and Ida Harbell and President Helliot and all the rest. But when those last two men came in, and they talked to me about stocks and bonds and the weather, and I looked at them, I realized that neither by any possibility could be a humorist. And then all of a sudden I understood the whole terrible deception." “T got her on the train,’’ said Tompkins, ‘‘and there you are.’” He munched his food for a few minutes in gloomy si- lence. ‘‘All I get out of it is this,’? he said finally; ‘*when you start out on a good, thor- ough job of lying, don’t mix any truth in with it. But, anyhow, it’s my opinion that no man has got a right to be a humorist and not look the part."’ comicbooks.com