Judge, 1916-09-23 · page 5 of 32
Judge — September 23, 1916 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains several satirical pieces mocking social anxieties of the era: **Top cartoon**: Depicts men complaining about wives' clothing expenses—a recurring theme about consumer culture and domestic tension. "Tinker" responds that his wife must match others' fashions, reflecting anxieties about competitive status-signaling through clothing. **"Fortunes"**: Satirizes how financial troubles corrupt character and damage social relationships, suggesting wealth inequality creates moral problems. **"Parodies of the Fair Green"**: Golf-themed parody poems mocking competitive golfing culture and male vanity. **Other pieces**: Mock romantic clichés ("Sincerity"), gossip ("Starting Rumor"), gender role reversal ("Leap Year"), and emerging technology ("Reversing It"—about talking machines/phonographs). The overall tone critiques materialism, social competition, and marital discord among the middle/upper classes.
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Brinker—Yes, your wife’s clothes have cost me a good bit of money. Brinker—Why, every time your wife gets a new gown, my wife must have one just as expensive! you mean? Fortunes are troublesome little things which weigh down on pco- ple’s happiness, burden their minds and cast gloom over their homes. Fortunes make people spend pre- cious hours brag- ging about what they have done, can do and will do, Fortunes make people lose respect for themselves and for all their neigh- bors, and do not once allow a neighbor to have any respect to lose. Fortunes turn free honest men into slaves, misanthropes and criminals. Fortunes drive mirth from hearts, chase smiles from faces and lead people to the brink of pessimism. Fortunes wither people’s souls, make them miserly, block the channels of charity and stultify love. Fortunes do these things chiefly to people who do not possess them. Leap Year “She says you jilted her, Percy!” “Jilted her nothing! I gave her every opportunity to propose.” Parodies of the Fair Green Invictus Ot of the sand that hides my ball, Muddied and grimed from head to sole I thank my planets, one and all, For my score at the sixteenth hole. In the fell clutch of unmown ling IT own I cry and swear and shout; Beneath my futile bludgeoning My ball is battered, but not out. Beyond this place of wrath and woe Looms but the horror of a pit; And yet eleven strokes or so I'm sure will get me out of it. It matters not how high the score, How charged with eights and nines the scroll; I'm not a duffer any more— I made three at the sixteenth hole. —F. Gregory Hartswick. Starting Rumor “Didn’t you tell me that the Pins- ters had had a lot of trouble? I hear it isn’t true.” “Well I don’t always believe every- thing I tell other people.” Reversing It Pretty saleswoman—Don't you want a talking machine in your home? He—My dear, this is so sudden! Tinker—My wife's clothes! i Mette What do Too Tame «Dp you have a good time at the house party?” “No. Practically all the women were unmarried.” Sincerity He—My love, honestly I wonder when God made you how he had anything left for the other angels. She—What I love about you, Jack, is that you never flatter. Astrologers have lately said That birds will rule when man is dead. And if that’s true, this little cuss Has got the jump on all of us.—Don Augur. comicbooks.com