Judge, 1919-09-13 · page 11 of 36
Judge — September 13, 1919 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Political/Social Content Analysis The page contains three separate humorous pieces typical of early-20th-century Judge magazine: **"Her Weakness"** (main story): A tavern waitress named Sylphie, described as weighing 260 pounds, demonstrates excessive modesty by violently attacking a traveling salesman ("drummer") who familiarly chucks her under the chin. The satire targets the contradiction between her rough appearance/job and her insistence on being treated as a "lady." The joke mocks both her disproportionate reaction and the genteel pretense of working-class women. **The smaller cartoons** use brief comedic scenarios: one about a mother advising quick thinking before speaking; another mocking jury selection where a prospective juror admits bias; and jokes about fractions and stingy friends. The artwork style is period-appropriate line drawing. The humor relies on class-based stereotypes and the incongruity between Sylphie's physical presence and her claims to ladylike dignity—typical of era satire that often ridiculed working-class pretension.
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Drwen by Cauvemr Sarr Her Weakness By Tom P. Morcan HE only trouble with Sylphie, the hefty waitress, is her infernal modesty,” admitted the landlord of the Petunia tavern, hat’s her one weakness. She weighs two hundred and sixty pounds, as it were, and served her apprenticeship on a boarding car for a railroad con- struction gang, and, dad-burn her, she’s a lady though the heavens fall. “Just the other day, when she came into the dining-room with a tray with four dinners on it, a fresh young tobacco dcummer chucked her under the chin—I don’t know which chin, though, for she hasseveral-~and says.’ Hay- oh, Cutic!’ or something of the sort. Of course, it wasn’t pretty of him, but Sylphie ort to have remem- bered that drummers will be drummers, and_ there ain't no help for it. Instead of which her modesty over- came her then and there. She dropped the tray, persing them four dinners around perennially, and slammed that there drum- mera slap side of the head that strewed him all over the table, eradicating pretty nearly all of the dishes and the viands thereon. After it was over and Sylphie had sorter be- gun to breathe regularly again, I took her aside, and Drawn by Banxsoace Rocens on Pa! “I'd just as soon such Ix Pursuit oF Mother—Mwayss think twice before you speak. Tommy—Gce, Ma, you sure do some quick think Happiness It’s Loo expensive anecdotcs as that wouldn't happen again. a luxury for a hotel doing a small business like thi “*Well, I'm a lady, and I don’t care who knows she. “*T don’t doubt that in the least,’ says I. ‘I’ve heard about it quite a number of times, and I s’pose likely it’s so, But, i it’s all the same to you, the next time you find your modesty getting the better of you, and feel that you've just nacher'ly got to prove to somebody that you're a lady, please drag him out onto the sidewalk and maul him there. I simply can’t afford to have you so immodestly modest in the house,’ says Unbiassed Opinion (examining prospective juror — in criminal case)—Mr. Juror, have you any fixed opin- ion asto the guilt or inno- cence of the accused? Juror (emphatically) w, I ain't got no doubt but the guy’s guilty, but they ain’t no- body fixed me . Lawyer Fractions “Say, Paw, will two and three-fourths — per cent. beer make a man two and three-fourths per cent. drunk?” “Aw, shut up!” No Treat “Hello, Wombat, How’s the world treating you?” “My friends are very stingy with what they g when you start - have put away.