Judge, 1918-11-23 · page 10 of 32
Judge — November 23, 1918 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page from *Judge* magazine contains multiple short humor pieces satirizing early 20th-century social types and domestic life: **"Mrs. Leander Greene"** mocks newly married women who obsessively praise their husbands to anyone who will listen, boring people with endless anecdotes about his virtues. The satire suggests such women lack awareness of social boundaries. **The smaller vignettes** target various social pretensions: a divorced woman's changed dating standards, wartime anxiety about household staff shortages, a mother boasting about a wealthy suitor (with the punchline that he'll run up doctor's bills), and a wife pleased her husband slept through a sermon criticizing female vanity. The overall theme is *domestic comedy*—poking fun at marriage, social climbing, gender relations, and the gap between public propriety and private reality. The humor assumes a readership familiar with upper-middle-class social rituals and marital dynamics of the era. References to college, motor corps, and depth bombs suggest early WWI period.
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Familiar Folks. Vo. 6. You Witt Have to Let Her Rux On Untit. Sue Ruxs Dow x Mrs. Leander Greene By H. W. Davis Illustration b AINTY young Mrs, Leander Greene bad been married only a short while—just long enoug you know, to think out loud upon the many virtues of Leander. She is still sure that he is the bravest and dearest and kindest of husband If unkind Fate should ever steer you into a tét téte with the charming Mrs. Greene, don’t mention Leander. If you do, you'll be sorry. You will have to listen to a painfully detaile vey of all the kind and clever thi he has said and done thr years ago last May 10, when he first called upe You will also learn about the roses Leander out last week, about how much the firm thinks of h since her sent Social Progress “EJOW we do change!” quoth the blithe bachelor “Yes, indeed!” replicd the gay divorcee. “1 used to marry men that I wouldn’t invite to a dinner party now!" Appropriate Harmony mith is a cheerful fellow. Did you notice he was whistling as he loaned me that ten dollars?" Yes. He was whis- tling Tosti’s ‘Good-by Forever.’" Her Only Mrs. Willis—How are you getting along these days? Mrs. Gillis—My hus band and son are in the army and my daughter is in the motor corps. Mrs. Willis—I Mrs, Gillis—Indeed I - ¥ , am, I'm afraid I'm go- is always a ing to lose the cook. Ap kT Leverinc about his unprecedented popularity at college, about ie richness of his voice, the dignity of his bearing, and the keenness of his business judgment If you get away in time to catch the last car, you may count yourself lucky; for Leander is a remarkable cuss and it takes hours and hours to do him up brown And there is absolutely no hope of prying Mrs. Leander loose from her subject and at the same time retaining her friendship and your own self-respect. You will have to let her run on until she runs down The saddest thing about it all is the fact that Leander is a pretty decent sort of chap, who deserves i wife that knows when she has talked too much. That Depends Proud Mother—My unmarried daughter has an extremely rich young doctor calling on her regularly now Envious Neighbor My! when he gets through your daugh ter'll have an awful doctor's bill, won't she? All Churned Up Saturn—Y ou look stirred up, my son Neptune — No won der, papa; I've just had another of tho: dreadful depth attacks all bom Conse Mrs. Doyle 1 and I went church this morning, ind Lam glad to say he slept all the sermon! Mrs Why? Mrs. Doyle—Because he minister preached sainst the vanity and extravagance of women! ence My hus- to during Boyle—Glad? Sturt red to as feminine? It ng to remind an, wants some! comicbooks.com