Judge, 1916-03-04 · page 11 of 28
Judge — March 4, 1916 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This Judge magazine page contains three separate satirical pieces mocking different aspects of early 20th-century American society: 1. **"Called Back"** (top illustration): A domestic comedy about male authority. Brother Clank boasts about maintaining firmness with his wife, but his actual story reveals he hid under the bed after she hit him with a skillet during a biblical argument—yet he frames this cowardly retreat as principled resistance. The satire targets men who claim domestic dominance while actually being physically dominated by their wives. 2. **"Placing the Lead"** (middle dialogue): Mocks a doctor-patient exchange where a wealthy Wall Street patient, unconcerned with health outcomes, agrees to surgery simply because there's "a chance" it might work—reflecting satirical criticism of both medical uncertainty and wealthy patients' cavalier attitudes toward serious procedures. 3. **"Some Lawyers"** (bottom): A brief jab at unethical legal practices, suggesting lawyers would manipulate insurance claims through technical maneuvers (*nunc pro tunc* clauses) even in fraudulent circumstances. The humor relies on exaggerating character types and exposing hypocrisy in gender relations, medicine, and law.
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His Unyielding Attitude “ MAN has gotter be firm wid women, if he 'spects to be de head of his own household!” stated Brother Clank,a skimpy little hornet of a man. firm, or ” a-bug- huntin’ wid deir no- tions. Tudder day, me and muh wife done had a little ‘spute "bout a po'tion o' de Scriptures, and she not on’y lost de ahgymunt but picked up a skillet and slapped me down wid it. [riz in muh dignitude and div’ headfo'most under de bed, and de whack she gimme on muh pos- terity smacked me so fur dat muh head popped ag’in de wall at de back side. Dat was dess as good a thing as I wanted, sah, uh-kaze by de time she had got me by de britches legs and was uh-pullin’ like a yoke 0’ steers, I done had muh claws socked into a crack in de flo’ and was in de finest kind o’ shape to frusticate her ’deavors “Come on out’n dar, yo’ coward!’ she yelled. ‘Come on out twell I bust yo’ wide open wid dis skillet!’ “*Maddum,’ says I, dess like dat. *Maddum, yo’ kin pull at me and whack me twell yo’ gets plumb white in de face, but yo’ kain’t break muh manly sperrit! Dinged if I'll come out!’ “And I didn’t, needer! Aw, yo’ gotter be firm wid ’em, sah; firm as a rock!” Placing the Lead LL, Doctor, will the operation cure me?” ¢ not in a position always to cure.”” . will it give me a measure of health?” “Undoubtedly; but you must not ask too much. “Ts asking to live too much?” Z ithout the operation.” ‘an I live with it? here is a chance.” “Well, there’s a chance without it?” “LT certainly have not said it.” “All the same, I'll take it. I’m from Wall Street.”” The End A‘ \ Farewell, my diamond spangled youth, I've got to swallow hard and face the truth; These feet that challenged Mercury's are lead, The one ambition that I had is dead; All life is dull; all interest flown away, ‘The race.is run—I married him today. —Jane Burr. Some Lawyers. Some lawyers would insure a car after the tank blew up, and then ring in a nunc pro tunc clause on the insurance company. ** That fresh conductor that had the nerve to always try an’ flirt with me ain't gone by today. I hope he hasn't lost his job.” comicbooks.com