Judge, 1915-10-16 · page 8 of 28
Judge — October 16, 1915 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents satirical commentary on early 20th-century American social life and gender relations. **Top cartoon**: A woman literally whips a man at his desk, captioned "Why Some Men Succeed." The joke inverts conventional wisdom—success comes not from merit but from submitting to female control. This reflects contemporary anxieties about women's growing social power. **Text sections** mock various social situations: a poem about a man popular at parties because he loses at cards (thus non-threatening); a "perfectly good husband" joke about Reno's notorious divorce colony (Nevada's loose divorce laws made it a destination); and editorial humor about servant incompetence, legal absurdity, and fictional implausibility. **Bottom illustration**: "The Optimist" shows a man in a capsized boat during a storm, cheerfully noting the windows will get washed anyway—commentary on blind optimism or darkly humorous acceptance of disaster. The overall tone mocks marriage, divorce culture, female authority, class pretensions, and human foolishness.
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Ballades of a Gay Week-ender The Secret of Popularity OMETIMES I wonder why I am sought For gay week-ends by mountain and sea, Ah! this is a subject on which I have thought, And will think through Eternity. Now what in the world do they see in me? For often I ask why I even exist. Well, here’s one solution—perhaps you'll agree: I’m always a loser at poker and whist. Maybe I visit far more than I ought; Some think me fickle and fancy-free. Perhaps my delight is dearly bought— One pays for his popularity Alack and alas! that’s true, may be, Yet I know in a rubber that I'd be missed; I may win with the ladies at Love, pardee— T’m always a loser at poker and whist. Yes, lucky at love, and at cards you're not; Thus Life runs on unmeaningly. No matter which game you play, you're caught, So why should we care in the end? Mais oui! O Life is a gamble, and Life is a spree, And our Host is a wise Philanthropist. I win at Love, though folk say, “He Is always a loser at poker and whist!” L'Envoi Hostesses, heavy my loss. And the fee? Here is my purse! But I'd rather be kissed Once in a while by such as ye, And go on losing at poker and whist! —Paul Norman. A Superfluous Question “In that new servant girl,” said Mr. Testy, as he discovered the sugar in the salt shaker, “it seems to me you have found the possessor of stupidity in its unadulter- ated, double-distilled form. May I ask where you obtained her?” “Why,” replied Mrs. Testy, “at the in- telligence office, of course.” A woman never does her thinking until after her mind is made up. tLe WHY SOME MEN A Perfectly Good Husband of Dh SMALL boys belonging to the divorce colony in Reno, Nevada, met on the street one day. Billy’s mamma, a divorcee, had just married the ex-husband of another divorcee. “So you've got a new remarked Harry. “Yes,” rejoiced Billy, “Mamma found a perfectly good husband that some other lady threw away.” papa, Billy,” What Might Happen He—Yes, I am still single. She—But you intend to marry some day, do you not? He—I do, unless some woman changes my mind. THE SUCCEED Adjudged on Appeal AcE may do the dishes and let mother enjoy the rest. Or, she may do two or three of them and let mother enjoy the rest. Suspend judgment; if good, for the time; if bad, by the neck. Law is common sense codified, they say. Modified, they mean. —Albert E. Hoyt. Fiction Editor (to contributor)—Why don’t you make your story true to life? Contrib.—What’s the matter with it? Ed.—What’s the matter with it? Why here you say that “There was the sound of a shot, and immediately the street swarmed with policemen.” OPTIMIST “Wal, the windows ‘Il git a good washin’, anyhow”.