Judge, 1916-01-22 · page 9 of 28
Judge — January 22, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical short pieces mocking American social conventions and marital dynamics. **"The Simple Life"** ridicules a Northern visitor's condescension toward Southern rural poverty, which the farmer counters by boasting of his family's supposed aristocratic status—then undercuts this by shouting his son to wash in a creek and eat persimmons for breakfast. The joke: Southern pretension masked thin reality. **"Fellow Sufferers"** (top cartoon) shows motorists with engine trouble commiserating with a woman whose sewing machine has similar problems—equating mechanical frustration across class lines. **"Reconciled"** jokes that newlyweds' initial marital conflict resolved when they stopped trying to change each other. **"The Unfortunate Part"** satirizes how wartime fashion changes affect designers but not consumers' wives, who still demand expensive clothing. **"Habit"** presents a cynical observation that obtaining alimony from an ex-husband proves as difficult as extracting money from a current one. **"Misunderstood"** uses verse to mock criminals who claim victimhood, particularly those caught "red-handed" who whine about being misjudged.
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Owner—What's wrong? The Simple Life NORTHERNER chanced to spend the night in a run-down farmhouse in even- ing, by telling him about the riches of South . Caroli His host time by be the count aristocracy of its inhabitants. The farmer described his own family as being the best in that part of the State. The next morning, the visitor heard his host rousing a sleepy son in these words: “Charley, git up an’ wash yo’ face in the crik and then climb the persimmon tree an’ git yo’ breaktus.” Reconciled A calm, dispassionate young man mar- tied a lively, emotional girl. Soon after the honeymoon had flitted away, they set LY SS FELLOW SUFFERERS Why. this confounded engine is knocking again. My sewing machine often does the very same thing. about to remake cach other. © Their efforts meeting with indifferent success, the young husband grew cynical and his wife grew very morose. For months thi existence in a vale of sarcasm and tears. hope of leveling their divergent personalities, and lived happily unto a ripe old age. Domestic happiness consists in working out your own salvation. —A. E. Supp. The Unfortunate Part Willis—This war has made a lot of differ- ence with the fashions, 1 mean as respects the fellows who design them. Gillis—YVes, and it hasn’t made any dif- ferenc all with the fashions, I mean as respects the fellow who pays for them. Habit alimony promptly?” much trouble in getting “Does he pay “No; I hav money out of him asif were married tohim.” _& be” isa a —~\\ qe) TTT aad! cell UNG zs | Aunt Ellen—Now isn't that odd! Misunderstood HAVE observed (and so no doubt have you) Tl when tie net is drawn, the reckoning in who is brought to book he is a crook; Says he is martyr to some motive good; In other words, that he’s “misunderstood.” Sometimes he’s lucky with this subterfuge, Is pardoned (to his satisfaction huge), And hies his way to fresher, greener fields To reap again credulity’s rich yields Yet when he’s caught red-handed, “with the goods,” Once more his tearful whine, “ isunderstood.” I have observed (and so I'm sure have you) That when your dark suspicions are most true, When ‘dead to rights” you have your bird in hand— No circumstance you could misunderstand ‘The crook who knows he’s due to “get it good” Breaks down and snivels “I’m misunderstood!” —Strickland Gillilan. comicbooks.com °