Judge, 1915-11-27 · page 17 of 28
Judge — November 27, 1915 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon satirizes high society's chaotic behavior: a fashionable tearoom has become so rowdy and undisciplined that an elderly gentleman cannot distinguish it from a zoo—a jab at the declining manners of the wealthy elite. The article mocks "Dr. List," a psychologist who published a study on Success and now attempts an equally pretentious analysis of Failure, with absurd numerical breakdowns (sincerity causes 14.307% of failure, etc.). The satire suggests her work is pseudo-scientific nonsense masquerading as scholarship. Subsidiary jokes target contemporary domestic life: a new bride cannot cook (a "domestic science" course failure), landlords feed tenants cheap fish, and newlyweds lack marital harmony. The verse "To The Ladies" sardonically questions women's ability to improve foolish men—reflecting period anxieties about gender roles and education. Overall, the page ridicules pretentious psychology, declining social etiquette, and domestic incompetence among the modern upper classes.
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Old gentleman—Could you tell me, please, if this is the tearoom or the Zoo? Failure [NSPIRED by the questionable welcome with which the world has received her painstaking analysis of Success, Miss Anna List, the notorious psychologist, has plunged enthusiastically into what promises to be an equally unimportant study of the other world curse, Failure. Due to the be- wildering abundance of material immedi- ately around her, Dr. List has little hope of completing her new work in the flesh. Her preliminary tests, however, pan out with such surprising regularity that she has kindly consented to risk her already worth- less reputation for accuracy and lay before an indifferent public the following table, which she holds subject to change without much notice: FAILURE Sincerity Misrepre: 14.307 01.404 11.065 16.473 00.102 ntation is advertising Clever advertising Honest effort 30.503 Pretension 00.020 Patience a 24.746 100.000 The avalanche of warnings which youth y withstood from the beginnings archy of righteousness and _re- spectability is now shown to have been composed of the merest rot. Yet it is to be hoped that, out of respect to the decrepit morality of the past and to those who rejoice in it, the rising generation will pay little open heed to what Dr. List has discovered. —H. W. Dee, When you took a special course at college in domestic science! Mrs. Newlywed (sobbing)—I—I know, but—but T can’t find a butcher that did! To The Ladies EAR ladies, say, In your own way Conformed to some strange plan You find it right And easy quite To make a fool of a man. But, ladies, say, Have you a way, By any sort of rule, To find it right And easy quite To make a man of a fool? —W. J. Lampton Getting Wise Hallroom—The landlady in- sists that fish is good for the brain. Starboard—Well, if she continues to give it to us six days a week, we'll soon know enough to leave this piscatorial establishment. Wanted—A Trading Affinity Mrs. Newlywed (in tears)-- I just don’t care! I’m going to give up house ping! Her dearest friend —What! Professor—The age of miracles has passed. Loce—Excuse me, professor—I'm still here