Judge, 1916-04-22 · page 9 of 28
Judge — April 22, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** "Modern Version—A Meeting of the Mothers' Improvement Association" depicts women (mothers' club members) gathered in a domestic setting, socializing while attending to children and pets. The satire targets the Progressive Era trend of women's civic organizations claiming to improve society, suggesting they're more focused on gossip and socializing than actual reform work. **Text Section "Enigmas":** A humorous column by Charles Elkin Jr. listing absurd contradictions in everyday behavior—why people consult newspapers over encyclopedias, why men fret over new gloves, why fathers resist explaining the Constitution to daughters. The satire mocks human irrationality and hypocrisy, particularly targeting male inconsistency in logic and civic engagement. **"A Changed Man":** A brief verse about a man who became tearful ("lachry-mose") after romantic rejection. **"Easily Satisfied":** A working-class joke where a man shows no preference when asking what's available—suggesting contentment or lack of ambition. The page satirizes middle-class social pretensions and human behavioral contradictions typical of Judge's humor.
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Enigmas * 1 IS an enigma that a man with an ordi- nary enigma will use up three pages and spend two cents to ask his newspaper about it, when page 402 of the cyclopedia is still undam- aged. Any crime which the De- tective Bu- u fails to in within years is an enigma. The majority of enigmas are purely per- nd what may be one to the man in the t is merely half a column to the editor me day we will have a Clearing House 1 man can leave his enigma on his way downtown and stop for the answer on his way home. In anticipation of that day the following have been taken out of camphor and hung up to air: What induces a man to start suit over a libelous letter which has been read by three people, thereby making the letter a part of wher the day’s work for everyone who takes a newspaper with his coffe Why will a human use a machine to pro- tect his cheque for three dollars, and yet trot to a druggist with a prescription that looks like a dying declaration? If Easter is the accepted time for fine rai- ment, why docs a man feel like a street accident because he happens to be wearing a new pair of gloves? Why does a man who has spent the day pointing out the mistakes of the Adminis- tration begin to get nasty if his little daugh- ter asks him to explain the “full faith and credit” clause of the Constitution? Why will an editor scold a minister for expressing opinions about politics just before writing an editorial blowing up religious training in the schools? And, finally, why will a man with a shiny suit bother about questions of this sort when he might be learning a trade? —Charles Elkin, Jr. A Changed Man Pp MOSE! He fell in love, But she turned up her nose And handed him the glove. So now he’s lachry-mose. —Terrelt Lowe Holliday. EASILY SATISFIED The woman—Well, what d° you want ? ‘he man—I ain't pertic'lar, ma'am. What have you got ? MODERN VERSION—A MEETING OF THE MOTHERS’ IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION comicbooks.com