Judge, 1917-09-08 · page 14 of 28
Judge — September 8, 1917 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("At Bowdoin College"):** This satirizes "college widows"—a period term for older women who frequented college towns seeking romantic attention from students. The joke: these women are now so desperate they're contacting men from the class of 1898 (likely decades prior), suggesting they've exhausted current prospects. **"Answers to Inquirers" Section:** Humorous pseudo-advice columns mocking common self-help platitudes and social pretensions. The writer sarcastically "explains" medical jargon, character development, and modern etiquette with cynical reversals—e.g., claiming character is external rather than internal, or that "artistic temperament" is actually just "cussedness." **Bottom Cartoon ("More Daylight Plan"):** Satirizes the daylight saving time concept by showing someone suggesting the solution is simply "getting up six months earlier"—mocking the absurdity of trying to artificially manipulate time rather than just adjusting schedules. The page targets pretension, romantic desperation, and pseudointellectual nonsense typical of early 20th-century American society.
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AT BOWDO “They say the college widows are getting awfully hard up for men.” IN COLLEGE “Yes, I expect some of them will be ordering out their old beaux of the class of °98.” ANSWERS TO INQUIRERS NAPHYLAXIS: We are surprised that you ask. This term was skilfully invented by the medical profession to express simply and clearly the fact that many patients are not any stronger than they ought to be and so do not tolerate any better than they should whatever treat- ment they e to get. As a result of this intolerance they get treated anyway. Top: You must change your habit of life. Get busy with the bold and brazen. 1 will puzzle your friends and make you inter Potsep: Beware of looking fa in the face. Nothing is more tire- some than the person who appears sane, even-tempered, and retiring. Mopest: If you have common sense try to get some less ordi- nary. If you haven't it, don’t look for it; you won't find it. Cuaracter: It was formerly supposed that character was a part of the human interior. Modern culture shows it is applied outwardly. Therefore, suit your own taste. Opportunities: These things are supposed to walk up to the candidate, particularly if he be college-bred. Now- adays the choicest selections reach him by automobile. INrLUENCE: We do not answer political queries. Personatity: You may acquire this without trouble if you will be particular to emphasize whatever you do in public. TEMPERAMENT: Artistic temperament cannot be acquired. It is inherent. On this account it is to be hoped that you will not struggle for its possession. The real name for it, which, evidently you have never heard, is pure cussedness. Of course this does seem to permit of cultivation in a varied range of what some might call selfishness.—H. M. D. Ane LAN ORIGINATED WHERE THE “MORE DAYLIGHT” PI “You see it's very simple—all we would have to do would be to get up six months earlier.” comicbooks.com