Judge, 1917-04-28 · page 13 of 28
Judge — April 28, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A courtroom scene satirizing gender relations. A man objects to serving on a jury with his wife, arguing they'd never reach a verdict—implying married couples engage in endless argument. This jokes about marital discord and women's recent entry into jury duty (women's suffrage was expanding during this era). **"Chatter" Essay:** A humorous piece defining chatter as purposeless conversation. It contrasts "chattering individuals" (described as socially useless) with serious professionals like scientists and editors who actively exclude such people from their clubs. The essay suggests chatty people form their own separate social circles. **Bottom Cartoon:** Depicts a domestic scene where a father learns his daughter completed a cooking course but can't practice—"the cook won't allow her in the kitchen." This satirizes women's education: formal training in "domestic science" proves useless when traditional household hierarchies (the established cook) prevent its application. Both pieces mock social pretension and gender dynamics of the period.
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“Why do you object to serving the same jury with your wife?” “It’s a quite useless procedure, your Honor. The Jury would never reach a verdict.” CHATTER But it is only when the plotless talker would become owlish Wi is commonly called chatter may be tersely de- and discuss the Single Tax or International Arbitration that scribed as any conversation without a plot. \ person given to this form of reise is as necessary to society as the wet end of the invention is to a bowl of crackers and milk Sometimes scientists and chess players and editors and stamp collectors form clubs where a chattering individual isn’t even allowed to take care of the furnace or sweep the stoop A visitor to one of the sanctuaries feels very much like a careless tourist lost in the Arizona Desert after a hearty meal of kippered herring and Roquefort. washed down by ponies of Benedictine: Of course everything works both ways—except brooks and a lot of other things—and the chatterers have clubs all their very own you catch an editor or a scientist and take him to one of these places, his mental condition resembles that of a home: iN loving gentleman who has just been tangled up in a war argu- ment with a Sicilian during an earthquake on a dark night : Any human afflicted with a methodical tendency of mind | suppose your daughter has become quite a cook as the pee es ; ¥ result of her course in domestic science. Perhaps, but is apt to find that his mental machinery develops a nasty knock she hasn't been able to prove it yet.” “How's that?” in the company of a confirmed chatterer. “The cook won't allow her in the kitchen.” y WY pee =