Judge, 1916-07-08 · page 7 of 28
Judge — July 8, 1916 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon, "REPRIMANDED," depicts a father (Captain John) scolding his son Jimmy for smoking cigarettes and swimming on Sunday—violations of strict Victorian Sabbath observance. The humor lies in the father's hypocrisy: he's simultaneously engaging in these same "sinful" activities while lecturing the boy about proper Sunday behavior. This satirizes the era's rigid religious standards and parental double standards. The bottom two illustrations are brief comedic exchanges. "Defined" jokes about a valet's role—a servant who manages a gentleman's wardrobe and decides when clothes are appropriate to wear versus when the valet himself may borrow them. The final cartoon plays on "airing" (taking a child outside) versus "sunning" (getting a tan), with the wealthy father euphemistically referring to his heir's outing as "sunning," suggesting leisure rather than mere outdoor exercise. All three pieces reflect turn-of-the-century American social pretensions and class attitudes.
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REPRIMANDED Captain Joka, (after complaint from Jimmy's Sunday school teacher) Smokin’ cigarettes and swimmin’ on a Sunday. 'el— peace, and the reign of prosperity would enter, never, never to depart.” “Suppose your poct decided to change, and take up plumbing, or one of the allied arts,” said the Scratch Man. “T don’t sce how, if he had been living on embryo odes for years, he would square accounts when he didn’t do any- thing but fix leaks. What is the value of an ode in terms of repairs to frozen pipes?” “That’s a difficulty, to be sure,” said the New Member thoughtfully. “T'll have to look into that. I suppose we could have some sort of inter- changeable schedule, so that values could be related to cach other in some way. If a poet become a plumber, there must be some method of redeeming his ticket so as to be fair to all concerned. Have you any suggestion?” “Only one,” replied the Scratch Man, “and I'm afraid it wouldn't work very well. But here it is for what it’s worth: vum if that there la have two sets of numbers on the ticket, one indicating the number of odes, the other hours of service. If, when a deli- catessen-store keeper had supplied, say, two thousand kippered herring, one hundred and eighty-nine cheese sand- wiches, and thirty-three thousand one hundred and cighty soda - crackers, punching out the requisite number of odes, the beneficiary decided to enter plumbing, the number opposite the number of odes would represent the number of hours’ service necessary to square the debt. One hour of service for cach ode.” “There's only one trouble with that,” said the Duffer. “If a man had swapped enough odes and such to rep- resent years of sustenance, and tried to pay off in an equal number of hours of service, he would, at the close of his natural span of life, still owe the deli- catessen-store keeper approximately two hundred years." —F. Gregory Hartwick. don’t git to act more an’ more like grown-up folks ev'ry day! Defined Willie Willis—What’s a “valet,” pa? Papa Willis—A valet is a man who knows when it is proper for you to wear your clothes and when it is safe for him to wear them. “Hello! old man: giving your son an airing?” “No; giving my heir a sunning.” comicbooks.com