Judge, 1916-08-26 · page 7 of 28
Judge — August 26, 1916 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains several short satirical pieces mocking early 1900s social anxieties: **Top cartoon:** A woman's outdated fashion (red sweater) amuses a bull—humor based on fashion consciousness and rural/urban divide. **"An Ominous Outlook":** Satirizes the dangerous incompetence of early automobile drivers. A man learning to drive has already killed livestock, neighbors, and a preacher. This reflects genuine public fear about automobiles as new, unpredictable technology threatening traditional rural life. **"Real Thing":** Similar auto anxiety—hiring a car for "excitement" is less thrilling than riding with someone who literally cannot drive, inverting normal logic. **"Quick Advancement":** Gentle military humor about a soldier's mother misunderstanding "guard duty" as prestigious when he's actually in the guardhouse (jail). **"Comparative Anatomy":** Dark hospital humor about surgical mix-ups with removed organs. The page reflects turn-of-the-century concerns: automobile danger, medical uncertainty, and changing social customs.
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Summerer—That bull keeps following and looking at me so funny! guess. Summerer—My, I know it is two seasons out of date, but I didn’t think a bull would notice it! August Song HE autumn comes, the summer goes; Fades the red rondure of the rose More plaintive grow the thrush’s | ‘The green ways of the gar- den-close Are dim with haze. The autumn comes, the sum- mer goes; The cricket grieves; the ril- let flows In dreamful wise the long hours through; Yet faith still gleams, and hope still glows,—~ And I have you!—Clinton Scollard. Comparative Anatomy “Ah, hello, Fred. Hear you are out of hospital. How did the operation go? Get rid of your appendix?” “That I did. Doctor sai job. Lucky, too. ‘Tw: shape.” “That so? Suppose you've got it in a bottle. Let me see it sometime? Anat- omy interests me.” “Well, yes, you are welcome to see the specimen I’ve got. ’Tisn’t mine though. You see, they made a mistake and threw mine away. But they gave me another ‘just as good.’ d it was a fine in pretty bad Country Board “Good fishing around our place?” “Must be. The farmer feeds us mainly on salmon and sardines.” An Ominous Outlook 66RURT BLURT traded for a second- hand motor car recently,” said old Riley Rezzidew. ‘Trying to learn how to run it he has already rambled over several dozen chickens, a few hogs, two neighbors and a Campbellite preacher who has lately come to town, I'm skeered to think of how many specimens of live stock, prominent cit and pre- siding elders he will obliterate after he knows how to run the car.” Verse, and More of It ‘The poet falls in love betimes, And life becomes the sweeter. A maiden fair inspires his rhymes, And so he runs to metre. Quick Advancement Fond mother of ebsent Guardsmen—I knew Jack would distinguish himself with the regiment, and he has! The neighbor who has dropped in—Ah! On guard on the border, isn’t he? Fond mother—Better than that! Why, his letter says he’s right in the guard- house itself! Real Thing Ted—I feel like a little excitement, so I think I'll hire an auto. Ned—If you want excitement let Tom take you out in his car. He doesn’t know how to run it. Farmer—Cuz of yer red sweater, I One Reason One reason why second thoughts are so valuable is because few people think of duty first. THE LADDER TO SUCCESS AS SOME CONCEIVE IT