Judge, 1916-09-02 · page 11 of 28
Judge — September 2, 1916 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **Top cartoon**: A woman's terrible singing is the joke—she supposedly kept poverty away ("the wolf from her door") through two years of widowhood via her singing voice, implying her voice was so dreadful it frightened away misfortune rather than attracted sympathy or income. **"Nature" Denatured**: Frederick Moxon's poem mocks romantic idealization of nature. Rather than celebrating pastoral beauty, he catalogs practical annoyances—swimming cramps, difficult rowing, and car-sickness—satirizing the period's sentimental nature poetry by grounding it in unglamorous reality. **"In Our Next War"**: A brief satirical dialogue imagining aerial bombing during a future conflict. The joke presents absurdist futility: a baseball player catches the dropped bomb and throws out a base-stealer, reducing war to sports comedy. This likely reflects pre-WWI anxieties about modern warfare technology. Other brief items satirize fishing exaggeration, a country club's pretensions, and consumerism ("one coat of tan is just as stylish as another").
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