Judge, 1917-05-12 · page 13 of 28
Judge — May 12, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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The page contains satirical commentary on gender relations and marriage, typical of early 20th-century American humor. **The Cartoon:** Shows a woman and man at Chicago's Edgewater Golf Club. The caption jokes that a woman named Adrienne is juggling suitors—"two down and three to go"—mocking both women's romantic pursuits and the era's courtship conventions. **"The Notion Counter":** A prose essay by Douglas Malloch offering sardonic observations about wives versus husbands. It attacks women's contradictions: they promise obedience but follow their own impulses; they claim to want a "woman's sphere" (the home) yet resent its confines. The piece mocks women's materialism, their desire for fashionable clothes, and their supposed need to "have the last word" in arguments. **Underlying Satire:** Rather than defending women, this satirizes *both* genders—depicting marriage as mutual frustration where wives manipulate and husbands are powerless. The humor reflects anxieties about changing gender roles and women's growing independence in the 1910s-1920s. The tone is misogynistic by modern standards, treating women's agency as inherently problematic.
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AT THE EDGEWATER GOLF CLUL, CHICAGO Elizabeth—How is Adrienne getting along with her various suitors ? Reginald—Two down and three to go. THE NOTION COUNTER By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ANY aman can say a greater man has said, “All that Iam my mother made me”; and sometimes, when I see some men, and remember the mothers that they had, I wish they wouldn't say it. Men are a prosaic bunch: When it os comes to making the garden, the wife thinks about fresh nasturtiums for the table, but the old man would like to make it radishes and onions. She promises to love, honor and obey— and then proceeds to love fine clot honor her relatives and obey her own impulses. Aman hasn't been home from his honeymoon very long before he telling what they.are going to do and begins asking. When the bride yells: “ You'll do nothing of the kind!” then a man realizes that at last he is in his own house. Many a man thinks he cannot live without her, and then finds that it is considerable of a chore to live with. Mother trains us up in the way we should go, and then Wife makes us go in the way we were trained. Whether home is sweet or not depends on whether she looks on it as woman’s sphere or woman’s fear. quits When a woman really wants something she is miserable until she gets it—and so is everybody else. Strange that they haven’t changed it from “Amen” to “ Awomen,” so they would have the last word. What the American woman needs isn’t so much the new- style gown as the old-style religion. Woman’s place must be in the home—for there isn’t much place there for the man. A wife’s idea of a good husband is one who kisses her before company. As to fashions, we havén’t seen such extremes before, or such extremities. We can thank the society page for a good many of our charities. Woman is the combination on the safe of human happiness. The proper study of mankind is woman. Drawbacks He (ardently)—Promise me you'll love me as long as you live! She—Why, Harold—Grandma lived to be 96! The Citizen's Budget Knicker—What becomes of Smith’s money? Bocker—He pays his children to be good, his wife to forgive, the cook to stay, and labor not to strike. comicbooks.com