Judge, 1916-02-05 · page 15 of 28
Judge — February 5, 1916 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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The top illustration depicts a domestic scene where men gather around a woman in modest dress in what appears to be a poor or working-class home. The caption—"It's just that little feminine touch that makes a place like home!"—uses irony to satirize sentimental notions of domesticity and women's civilizing influence. The contrast between the rough, sparse setting and the idealized rhetoric suggests mockery of Victorian-era platitudes about homemaking. Below is "Lazytown Local News," a humor column featuring absurdist small-town anecdotes—mishaps like shooting a mule instead of a rabbit, or absurd observations about chairs versus stumps. These brief satirical vignettes mock rural American life, provincial attitudes, and nonsensical logic typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine's comedic style. The humor relies on understated deadpan delivery and the cumulative effect of ridiculous scenarios presented as earnest local gossip.
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“It’s just that little feminine touch that makes a place like home!” PER HAVING tried every other way lo attract attention, Cricket Hicks has now turned out his mustache. * Yam Sims, while hunting on Gimlet creck last’ Monday, shot ata rabbit and killed a nice mule. The editor of the Tid- ings thinks this is an unusual case, as most of the time a person aims at something big and gets something very little. * Fletcher Henstep got a dun through the mails from Bounding Billows the other day, but will not pay any attention to it, as he has been owing the bill nearly a year. ¢ A poem belonging to Miss Hostetter Hocks made a flying trip to New York last week. If she cannot get it published any- where she is going to have it copyrighted so that nobody can use it. 7 Lazytown Local News By CREORGE BINGHAM Little Fidity Flinders, whose hair was. combed the other + does not look like the same child. a Washington Hocks says that what the Wild Onion school teacher thinks about a chair being one of the most handy and modern things there is to sit down on, is all true, and that it also is a fact about a chair being more convenient as it can be moved around, while a stump cannot; but that a stump does not have to be bottomed. 2 Raz Barlow went to Tickville Saturday without his overcoat, and warmed his feet at the ice cream parlor. The Twins of the Calf Ribs neighbor- hood were in town Saturday inquiring as to excursion rates on a couple of hair-cuts. 2 Three of Jefferson Potlocks’s dogs fol- lowed the Excelsior Fiddling Band on its rounds over Musket Ridge the other night. The dogs added much to the appearance of this sterling organization. 2 If the people keep on voting for prohi- bition, the bar-keeper at Hog Ford thinks he will have to close his front door. s While in Tickville Saturday Columbus. Allsop sct his watch by the big wooden clock in front of the Elite jewelry store. One of the hands on Poke Eazley’s clock is back on duty, after having been laid off all summer. comicbooks.com