Judge, 1917-03-17 · page 11 of 28
Judge — March 17, 1917 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine features light satirical content typical of early 20th-century American humor. The top section shows five caricatured male heads labeled with life philosophies ("Love Comes But Once," "Success with Large Crops," "Sunshine in the Home," "How to Live on Twenty Cents a Day," "The Joy of Living")—a gentle mockery of self-help literature's earnest promises. The main content includes short humorous pieces and poems about courtship, marriage, and everyday foibles. "Keeping Him Young" jokes that a wife prevents her husband from aging by refusing to let him grow older—absurdist humor. "The Same Thing" pokes fun at fortune tellers' predictions. "A New Bo-Peep" is a whimsical poem about shepherds and romance. A small comic strip shows a newlywed couple missing a train, with the wife joking she'll "try again"—innuendo about marital relations. The final jokes mock expertise, stop-watches, and dishonesty in social situations. Overall, the page reflects genteel Victorian-era satire aimed at middle-class readers, emphasizing marriage, propriety, and mild social commentary rather than sharp political critique.
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How To LIVE ON TWENTY CENTS A DAY OF LIVING SOME SEASONABLE BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS. To Spring (Privately) * ‘OUR virtues, Spring, the greatest bards have chanted And I, whose Pegascus can barely fly, Must, willy-nilly, take the fact for granted That they were greater geniuses than I, A secret, Spring! The editors have banded To keep your rhythmic self from magazines Because, since Wordsworth, Keats and Keeping Him Young 667 TNDERBY is one booster for mar- ried life. He boasts that his wife keeps him young.” “That's a fact, too. So many of their friends know that they were just the re when they married that she let him grow any older for five same hasn’ years.” The Same Thing But yet, though humble, I can feel elation And though I dare not hope to sing to you At current verse rates, a/l my approba I feel, m’ beauty, that there's something due. And so, though in my flights I shun the weather In strict accord with old convention’s, curse, On this occasion let me slip the tether That keeps my Peg from thermo- metric verse. For, Spring, I've had my fill of life at zero; I've shovelled all I want of muddy And thus (in spite of editors) I cheer, te) “*Gentie? (quoted) Spring, m’ queen, hello!” —Elias Lieberman, Phe best man that money can buy is not worth dickering with. “That fortune teller called me a com- plete simp.” “What impudence!” “Well, she didn’t say it in just those words, but she told me I would be mar- ried three times.” And The XN Newiywed—Have | missed the last train for Stamford to-night ? Guard—You have not! Newlywed—I feared as much! I'll have to try again! A New Bo-Peep T WAS a blithe young shepherd A-shepherding his sheep; It was a merry lassie Behind a hillock grassy Who cried to him, “ Bo-peep!” His heart was filled with wonder, With wonder and amaze; So laughterful her callin; Her voice was so enthi He left his sheep at graze. He left his sheep to wander Adown the sunny sw when he found her, stalking, trend of all their talking ‘ot sheep's, but lovers’ tales! Now in a cozy cottage, Round which the climbers creep, They play “bo-peep” together, And keep their lambs in tether, The Bo and his Bo-peep! —Clinton Scollard. Expert “Jerome is marvelously expert with a stop watch. “Yes; he formerly timed all screen es for the board of cen- sorship.” Diplomacy Hokus—Well, I admit I made a mistake. Pokus—You made two. Hokus—What was the second? Pokus—Owning up to the first. comicbooks.com