Judge, 1916-10-21 · page 9 of 32
Judge — October 21, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains several short humorous pieces satirizing early 20th-century club and domestic life. **"Overheard in the Woman's Club"** mocks wealthy women's gossip and cattiness—their obsession with appearances, wealth displays, and social climbing. The satire targets their superficiality and how they judge each other harshly while claiming refinement. **"He Didn't Have To"** and **"No Exceptions"** are brief marital humor pieces. The first jokes that a newspaper worker needn't fabricate excuses because he genuinely works late. The second plays on a wife misunderstanding her husband's commission structure as more generous than it is. **"'Tis Folly to Be Wise"** satirizes the paradox of Ivry, who is so skilled at billiards that no one will play with him—his excellence isolates him rather than brings social reward. The illustration shows a well-dressed man consulting a public scale while a child asks about arithmetic, likely illustrating one of the jokes about calculation or value. The overall tone mocks pretension, marital misunderstandings, and social hypocrisy of the era's leisure classes.
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By ons ae mete AD LaFietute. TRY THIS ON YOUR CLUB PIANO OVERHEARD IN THE WOMAN'S CLUB rT3 OW Lulie Peters has gone off—she’s positively sallow!” H “That Ross girl! Why, she has a face like a clove-eyed marshmallow!” “My dear! She’s hired detectives, and limit! A landscape gardener laid it out, and got the cook to trim it!” He saw her in the cab with him—" they are honeymooning, Devoted couple? J observe that she does all the spooning.”” “She found it in his pocket, and— go near the creature! Her husband's brother’s daughter is my niece’s music teacher!” aren’t real! They haven't any sheen * well, that hat is the Yes, ! don't om Goel ts “Of course they or luster— “She’s mean and spiteful and two-faced fool to trust her!” “Oh, they have money not touch us—"” “She put in six more bath-rooms when she entertained the Duchess.” “He hasn’t half an ounce of brains! He's just a gilded loafer—" “My dear, T know it’s truce, because her laundress told my shofer!”” “No, T can’t get them big enough sizes—" “Her Bridge Parties are screams! worth’s for her prizes!” “—Two cups of sugar and one exg—" laced suéde are smartest “He went right to the dogs when May got mixed up with that artist.” “For all that sweet Madonna face, she is an awful sin ner—" “Good gracious! is it late as that? [must yo home to dinner!” Carolyn Wells “TO BE happy,” suid the Curate, “a should decide on one thing he would like to do well, and then perfect himself until he can do it better than anybody else.” “Another story-book virtuc, my dear Doctor,” said the Old Member, “that doesn’t work out There is Ivry, for example, the loneliest man in the club.” “And what about Ivry?” “He plays such a good game of billiards that nobody will play with him.” you'd be a but for class, they simply can- even in extre She goes to Wool “Yes, high ‘Tis Folly to Be Wise man And Gosh How We Dread 'Em! Kosalind—The time of chivalry is past Roger—No; we still have ladies’ nights. He Didn't Have To 6“ OES your husband ever tell you, when he stays out late D at night, that it was because somebody gave an in- teresting talk at the club?” “No.” “How interesting. Doesn't he ever give you any excuse at all or make any explanation?” “Never. He works on a morning newspaper.” No Exceptions He—My commission is twenty-five cents on the dollar. She—On every dollar, Henry? How perfectly grand! he : OWE “Please, mister, how much is half of ninety-seven >?” comicbooks.com