Judge, 1918-06-08 · page 21 of 36
Judge — June 8, 1918 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple short satirical pieces about domestic servants and clergy, reflecting early 20th-century class attitudes. **"Servants" section**: Brief humorous anecdotes mocking working-class speech and behavior—a maid's Irish brogue when she drops meat, a cook so bad her cooking is "diabolical," a maid who regularly demands evenings off. The humor relies on portraying servants as dim-witted or impudent. **"Preachers" section**: Satire targeting clergy as ineffectual. A minister gives useless marriage advice to an angry woman; a Scottish minister is never seen; a bishop is questioned about extreme Sunday laws. **"An Enviable Record"**: A French cartoon (La Baionnette) where a woman has had six aviator boyfriends—she's called an "ace." The satire suggests promiscuity during wartime. The page reflects period attitudes: servants depicted as comic figures, clergy as bumbling, and women's wartime behavior as scandalous. The international reprints suggest Judge's editorial practice of sharing content across Atlantic publications.
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A Man of Feeling In War Time—Mrs. Exe—The cook Ves SERVAN S and the janitor have quarreled. What shall we do? Exe—Recognize their belligerency, and It Was Safe—The serving maid take steps to protect our crockery, was awkward and the steak fell on broomsand ash-cans.—Boston Transcript. the floor with a sickening thud. The young mistress was upset, and Truly Nasty!—Mistress—Your mas- shrieked: ter and I have been talking the matter “Now we've lost our dinner.” over, Mary, and have decided that you The maid alone kept her head—and must take a month’s notice. the meat. Like oil on troubled waters Mary—Oh, indeed! I bet master came the calm reply: wishes he could take a month’s notice, “Indeed, then, an’ ye haven’t, mum. —_ too.— Passing Show. I’ve got me fut on it.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. She Takes 'Em—“Does your maid ask for many evenings out?” Ina Sense—“ Have you a good cook?” “No, indeed.” “She's so good that you might call her “That’s good.” pious, but her cooking’s diabolical.”— “Is it? She takes ’em.”—Baltimore Baltimore American. American. An Enviable Record “Allo! Allo! Inutile, monsieur le marquis, de couloir m’acheter mon vase de Séores; ma femme m'a prié si gentiment de le garder pour elle, que j'ai accepte.” “Hello! Hello! Monsieur le Marquis? I’m sorry to disappoint you with regard to that Sévres vase which you desired to pur- chase from me; my wife entreated me so winningly to keep it for her, that I was obliged to yield." —Le Péle-Méle (Paris). PREACHERS Useless—The clergyman was engaged in that unprofitable occupation of giving advice to the woman who had just paint- ed her own husband in very dark colors. “Suppose you were to try to heap coals of fire upon his head,” he suggested. “’Twouldn’t do no good,” she re- turned. “I’ve thrown a lighted lamp at him several times but he was just as bad next day.” —New York Times. His Characteristics — Tam — What sort o’ meenister hae ye the noo, Sandy? Sandy—We seldom get a glint 0’ him; sax days o’ week he’s envessible and on the seventh he’s incomprehensible.”— Boston Transcript. . Piety—Bishop Paul Jones of Utah was asked by a committee the other day to support a rather extreme Sunday ordi- nance. “Gentlemen,” the bishop said, “the wife of one of my ministers saw her little boy last Sunday morning chasing the hens all over the farmyard with a club. “Crest une ‘as. ‘I'll learn you,’ he was shouting—‘I’ll “Je te crois! Elle en est dson sixiéme aviateur.” learn you to lay eggs on the Sabbath!’”— “She's a regular ace.” Buffalo Commercial. “TI should say so! Bagged her sixth aviator!” —La Baionnette (Paris). comicbooks.com