Judge, 1919-04-05 · page 6 of 32
Judge — April 5, 1919 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Main Story**: The text describes Grimley, a man frustrated with his wife's expensive furniture purchases. He's trying to return a bureau, negotiating with a drayman (furniture mover), while his wife resists. The narrative humorously depicts marital conflict over household spending and the logistics of moving furniture. **Cartoon ("The Double Steering Wheel")**: Drawn by Norman Anthony, this satirical illustration depicts a car with two steering wheels—one operated by a man and another by a woman passenger. The caption jokes that this device is "For Riding Behind Reckless Drivers and Engaged Couples." The satire mocks both reckless male drivers and controlling female passengers (particularly fiancées), suggesting women felt compelled to literally take control during automobile rides due to men's dangerous driving habits—a common complaint in early automotive-era society.
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the glittering forty-dollar surface, Grimley regretted that he hadn't postponed the affair until some day when Mrs. Grimley was out of town. Already about seventeen dollars’ worth of polish was gone, with more going at every move, and imley had to work like a contor- tionist to keep between Mrs. Grimley and the worst features of the case. A sudden r-r-r-ip, like the striking of an old-fashioned parlor match, made his blood run cold. “What was that?” Grimley, sharply. “T tore my shirt,” promptly lied Grimley, congratulating himself on his agility of mind, and he hastily put his foot on the sliver of veneer and sought to distract attention by re- newed and frantic efforts. But it was no go. The bureau was three inches wider than the doorway, and human ingenuity couldn’t make it any less or get it through. In his soul, Grimley cursed all builders, furniture makers and draymen and was try- ing to think up new anc complicated curses when the door bell tinkled. It was the drayman come to collect his bill. He was invited to cast a professional eye over the field, which he did with mild surprise. “ How in thunder did you get it in? "queried Grimley. “Wot are ye tryin’ to do?” countered the man. “Get it out,” explained Grimley, succinctly. asked Mrs. Drown by A.B. Waugen A Hit to Heroes “If a woman now holds your old job, there is only getting it back again.” “Oh!” said the man, and shoved it back into the room. He took out the top drawer, rattled mysteriously in the interior for a moment and then lifted off the swell top. “Take a holt and pull,” he com- manded, “while I run her through.” Quietly and offering no resistance, the now subdued bureau glided through the door, across the hall and to its appointed place. But even now its malicious perversity gleamed out. One side of the room was light, the other dark, and of course it turned to the light the long scar where the splinter had been riven from its most conspicuous corner. “Why couldn’t it have been on the other side,” groaned Grimley, and then he was roused by his wife’s voice. “But I thought you said it would be only ten dollars for moving it.” “Two dollars more for extra work, lady,” explained the man, waving a hairy paw toward the bureau, “and cheap at that!”’.¢ An all-wise Providence has decreed that there shall be times when a woman’s surcharged feelings shall sus- pend, for a moment, the power of speech and action. Grimley took advantage of the moment to slip from the room and follow the retreating form of the drayman. “Tt is kinder and more tactful to let them cry these things out quietly by themselves,” he thought, as he softly closed the front door after him. one sure way of Drawn by Noamax Axtuowt Tue Dovsre Steerinc Wue For Riding Behind Reckless Drivers and Engaged Couples | comicbooks.com: