Judge, 1916-10-07 · page 7 of 32
Judge — October 7, 1916 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Cartoon (Top):** A sheriff's sale is occurring, but the caption reveals satire—these aren't poor people facing eviction, but "prosperous young New Yorkers employed by a film company." This mocks the movie industry's practice of using real locations and staging elaborate scenes. The "sheriff's sale" sign is a film prop, not an actual foreclosure. **"The Probable Reason":** Mr. Scrappington's wife is baffled by her husband's disappearance, despite his being a model spouse—never smoking, drinking, or complaining, always helping with chores and entertaining her pastor. Mr. Scrappington's response ("That's why!") is the joke: the satirist suggests that such excessive domestic perfection and self-sacrifice would drive any man to flee. The satire targets both nagging wives and overly docile husbands. **Remaining Content:** "Which?" is a light poem contrasting two female types (rural/natural versus urban/artificial); "His Awful Privation" jokes about a blind man's real complaint—women's skirts getting shorter, not blindness itself—mocking misplaced priorities.
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No, this miserable old couple won't have to go to the poorhouse. They are prosperous young New Yorkers The Probable Reason ‘CRA PPINGTON—Poor Mrs. Skipps is terribly worried over the M disappearance of her husband! He seems ° to have been a model man. He never smoked, drank or used bad language. For years he helped at the household tasks without murmur- ing, beating the carpets, caring for the children, occa- sionally washing the dishes, and so forth. He never com- plained about lending money to her rela- tives, and alway; clared that he loved to help entertain their pastor at tea. And then all of a sudden he disappeared. She cannot understand why, and—— Mr. Scrappington—Good Lord! That's why! A rounder has trouble squaring himself with his wife. employed by a film company Which? IERDITA’S modest, shy and sweet, With drooping la She wears plain gingham, fresh and neat, With soft blue sashes ; Within her cheeks the rosy hue Doth flush and waver, For all her charms through Those nature gave her, are—through and Estella is a city girl, Sophisticated, Her clothes are quite the latest swirl, It may be stated. She uses art where nature halts, Her color’s stencilled, Her hair is very largely false, Her eyebrows pencilled. Shall sweet Perdita be my wife, Or gay Estella? ‘There is a problem for your life ‘To stump a fella. Except for this—they both are brides, I couldn't get them, And I am married too. Besides, I've never met them!—Berton Braley. Humor, like history, repeats itself. His Awful Privation 66YVOU have our most profound sym- pathy,” we said. “Blindness is indeed a terrible affliction.” “Yes!” moaned the poor wretch. “They tell me that women’s skirts are getting shorter and shorter all the time.’ Brother—Mabel told me this morning she couldn't sleep thinking of me. Sister—That means nothing. A lobster, my dear Charley, often has the same effect.