Judge, 1915-06-26 · page 12 of 25
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**Top Illustration:** Ten women in 1910s fashion seated together, likely representing modern, independent women. **Main Text/Dialogue:** A engaged couple debate their honeymoon and wedding plans. The woman (Imogene) opposes her fiancé George's plans for a Western trip and bachelor dinner, instead proposing she host a "spinster's dinner"—a novel, gender-reversed social custom. The satire mocks both upper-class pretension (obsessing over luxury travel and fashionable social rituals) and emerging women's demands for equality in social conventions traditionally reserved for men. **Bottom Right Cartoon:** "The Proper Way"—a beach scene where a woman displays her new bathing suit. The joke plays on whether she's showing it "off" (to impress) versus showing it "on" (wearing it), likely satirizing women's liberation and changing attitudes toward female bodies and swimwear. **Lower Section:** "Judgments"—witty one-liners on various topics, including civil service and Darwinian theory. **Context:** This reflects early 1900s anxieties about women's growing social independence and changing gender roles.
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**We could go on a private car. Iwanttosee the West- public expenditures in which the other fellow is interested. If they take ern wonders—the Yosemite, Glacier Park, the Gra us for the other fellow, they may be long on rectitude, but they'll be short Canyon and all the rest. And it's going to be quite the — on votes. -Allert Ey Hoyt. fashion."" “*It would take all summer to do those places on a private car. And while we might live tolerably on the car, carry- ing our own servants, we should have to rough it when sightseeing. It’s not like traveling in Switzerland or the Riviera, where one finds luxury on every hand."* **You still oppose me in this?"’ “Well, we can talk it over again. But, after all, why couldn't we enjoy ourselves at home—or in other cit . “*What a plebeian idea!"’ “Imogene! Is that just the thing to say to m “*Of course I didn't mean that as you construe it, George, dear. But I should just ate a commonplace honeymoon! We'll talk later about it. There's another thing. Is it necessary for you to give a bachelor dinner?"* “Necessary? What would the fellows think if I didn’t?"’ “But I don't like the idea. Don’t you remember Reggie Spoonbill’s experience? He was ill for a month after his bachelor dinner. They must be terrible affairs!"" “*Nonsense! Reggie is a sissy."’ “*But if you give a bachelor dinner, why may I not set a new fashion and give a spinster’s dinner? I know a lot of girls who'd be just crazy to have a good time. And it would be quite disti “Distinctive! It's i and the newspapers !"" “Well,’’ said she, putting up her lips for a kiss, ‘‘maybe you'll omit the bachelor dinner. We've talked enough about serious things to-day. And you know we must not quarrel !"" ! Think of the gossip— Judgments ‘O MAN should let the alimony stand between a woman and her happiness. A friend in need is a friend in hiding. Be not weary in well doing. Automobiles do their best work when thoroughly tired. The sincere civil-service reformer is the department clerk who holds over from the last administration. Monkeys in the zoo object to being finger-printed. Humiliating but conclusively supporting the Darwinian THE PROPER WAY theory. an . Sanders—She has a new hathing suit, eh? 1 suppose she wants to show it off? | Statesmen may go as far as they like in cutting out Ariadne—No, She wants to show it on comichooks.