Judge, 1916-01-15 · page 15 of 28
Judge — January 15, 1916 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains satirical commentary on American success culture and relationships circa early 20th century. **"Breaking Trail"** (top): A winter scene showing adults watching a child trudge through snow, illustrating the metaphor that success requires pioneering effort and sacrifice. **Main essay**: A cynical philosophical piece distinguishing "contemporaneous" from "posthumous" success—arguing that living success is always compromised because we're "onto" people, while dead people's accomplishments become mythologized. The satire mocks American obsession with financial success, suggesting it requires sacrificing one's authentic self and emotions entirely. **"His Meal Ticket"**: A cartoon about economic dependency in relationships, where a woman declares she can't live without her boyfriend—unless he gets employed (suggesting her affection depends on his financial support, not love). **"Frantic Motorist"**: A joke about an officer questioning a car owner's reliability, playing on early automotive technology's notorious unreliability. Overall, the page satirizes American capitalism's demands, relationship transactionalism, and technological inadequacy.
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BREAKING TRAIL Success, Success is a feast to which only toothless dyspeptics have access. HE ARE two classes of success Success is a throbbing symphony with stone-deaf auditors. Success contemporancous and posthumous. — is a beautiful maiden whose hand you can win only after you have ‘The contemporancous success, whatever may reached your dotage. The price of success is the power to enjoy it. be his attainments, is ni as great as the —P. H. Skinner. posthumous, because we are onto him. We : keep tab on his breaks, and there is only one His Meal Ticket cure for making breaks. That is embalming “T cannot live without you,” he murmured with a sob. fluid. The posthumous success is like the Said she, “I do not doubt you—unless you get a job.” fish that gets away—a large cle- ment of imagination enters into his construction, He is more a work of art than of truth- shackled nature. But contemporancous success is pleas- ante! » attain success it is advisable to make a careful study of Bradstreet’s before selecting your parents, because to reach the plenitude of success from financial insufficiency is a most difficult undertaking to accomplish in one gener- ation. Whether your income is determined by the extent of your success, or your success is determined by the extent of your income, isa moot question, but the two are insepa- rably connected in some mysterious way. The God of Success requires more sacrifice than buy- ing a house on the installment plan. To him you must immolate the thing you like best—yourself. You must part forever with all emotions and desires t offend him. The foxy god demands this, so you will never be able to change your mind and choose happiness instead Frantic motorist—Oh, officer! Someone has stolen my spark plugs! of success. Officer—Are ye sure ye had ‘em when ye left home ? comicbooks.com