Judge, 1916-05-06 · page 5 of 28
Judge — May 6, 1916 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The cartoon depicts a gentleman confronting a woman at a grist mill, with the caption revealing the joke: he mistakes her for the miller's daughter, but she's actually the miller's bookkeeper and stenographer—a "typewriter" (period slang for female office worker). The satire targets early 20th-century gender assumptions. The gentleman's error reflects the era's surprise at women entering professional roles beyond domestic service. The punchline—that a woman at an industrial site must be the owner's daughter rather than an independent working woman—mocks men's difficulty accepting female wage-earners in modern business positions. The accompanying "Pensive Spring Thoughts" column continues this theme, offering lighthearted social commentary on relationships and modern life during the spring season.
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The gentleman iE the Wimpus! en though we have the annual crop of Spring fiction, we shall be de- livered, in due course, from the sight of the trees with their boughs entirely naked. Movie term: Flash, or Fade Out The girl you once thought you were go- ing to marry, and didn’t. is now making some man more or less happy with Spring housecleaning. Chirk up—this fever of indolence will pass like mists rising from steaming hot-scotch. Be Thorough, in dodging Automobil Last Autumn the tree toad said, ‘Never Again.” But he was a liar. The fondest lov are not always the biggest fools. Maybe she’s an heiress. In Some Hospitals, they have pretty SETTING And this, [ presume, is the miller’s daughter ? PENSIVE SPRING THOUGHTS Ry FRED LADD nurses to soothe the ried brow. Oh, that all the world were Some Hospitals. Be not a monkey. In large cities he has to climb fire escapes all the day long. You're Welcome to-night at the Ball Do not envy your Creditor: he has his troubles. Preserve the heart of a (college) boy, and wear a hat-band that looks like an intoxi- cated rainbow, even at risk of being consid ered Nutty If your wife sends up an accompanying wail to high heaven because your cigar ash hits the piano keys—they are needing men in Mexico. The broken Hinge—Protests. So, with a gentleman who has been stung by an Effi- ciency Expert. (Many of these are married and wear skirts in the latest mode.) HIM RIGHT The lady—No sich thing! It's his bookkeeper an’ st'nawgifer ! Townsman Benjamin Franklin Cook says it certainly makes the cold beads gather on one’s brow when one thinks of going to Work, these days. Some might say, Why Think of it? We are glad we don’t have to say Onomat- opoeia very often. We would just about as soon say Onychoteuthoid. ‘There’s more music in the hiss of a siphon than a python. He who courts and runs away, Won't be married yesterday. Toadyism VER since Time first walked this wold, Tt has been mankind’s way ‘To cringe to caste, to fawn to gold, To laud a clump of clay— And, yet, despite the estimate Of every underling, What fly would spare a potentate What flea regard a king?—Ralp M. Thom poon. comicbooks.com