Judge, 1918-02-23 · page 4 of 36
Judge — February 23, 1918 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This illustration satirizes interior decorators and their wealthy clients. The caption explains that a professional decorator furnished a bedroom in fashionable "boudoir" style. The joke centers on a client named Rose who broke an expensive ten-thousand-dollar pearl necklace while dressing, exclaiming "there goes me beads!" The satire targets the contrast between refined aesthetic pretensions and crude reality: despite the decorator's careful attention to "grace in forms and warmth in color," the wealthy client's unrefined speech ("there goes me beads") and careless handling of valuable items reveal her lack of genuine sophistication. The ornate bedroom setting emphasizes the gap between outward appearance and actual refinement.
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‘TRANSPLANTED a woman who always considered the appear- had planned and furnished the boudoiresque room on a hing of grace in forms and warmth in color. . deviser of interior elegance and antecedents of her clients carte-blanche order. The result revealed som Rose, the happy occupant, was dressing. Stella, a fami not been gompanions in the theatre?—while really she envied. freedom of companionship. As she donned her ten-thousand-dollar rope of p and the costly pearls parted company. “Gee!” she exclaimed, ‘there goes me beads!” shad come in to congratulate—for had they Rose rattled on with the old-time earls the string broke