Judge, 1921-04-09 · page 10 of 32
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three satirical pieces mocking Victorian sentimentality and domestic hypocrisy: **"Pets No. 3"** is a brief humorous verse about a lady who spends as much on her favorite cat as on fashionable hats, with the cat living "a life of ease." **"East Lynne Revised"** parodies the melodramatic Victorian play *East Lynne* by exaggerating its moral extremism. A father violently ejects his second maid into a blizzard—not for pregnancy or seduction, but because she sang on the Sabbath. The satire mocks rigid religious hypocrisy and the play's overwrought tragedy. **"Suggestions on How to Spend the Day"** offers darkly comic domestic advice: eat foods you dislike, accumulate marital grievances, blame your wife, hide butter and sugar, slap children, and neglect affection. It's satirizing joyless, petty married life and suggests people deliberately make themselves miserable. The final cartoon shows a nouveau-riche woman (Mrs. Newrich) rejecting an architect's offer of "Adam period" mantlepieces, apparently confusing architectural style with Biblical references. It mocks nouveau-riche pretension and ignorance.
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Pets No. 3 By Joux Herv, Je. axo Georce Mrtcne My LADY SQUANDERS ON A HAT No More THAN ON HER FAV RITE CAT; Tue pack-rexce Tom ox reoup Matrese CAN FIND WITH HER A LIFE OF EASE East Lynne Revised Ry Harvey H. Ssirn URIOUS FATHER (to sobbing, sinful second maid as he kes to fall on the floor holds open door allowing snowt Leave this house at once and never darken its doors again, for you have committed an hein sin. Sinful Second Maid (k ne tears)—OH! sir Son—But father she has ¢ F. F.—V'Ilnot consume a single calorie of the food she serves ling in the middle of a pool of her own Sympathe ne No wrong: the 1 an outcast—she has sullied herself—sold herseli to the di wench! S. Son—Father, | love her—punish me, but spare my darling What has she de F. F.—Her cri what you say when y S. Son—If she goes, | F. F.—Speak not hastily, son Ss 2 (placing his arm about the sobbing second maid) What is her crime, oh, father? F, F.—She was singing on the Sabbath S.S. Maid—Oh i S. Son (recoiling in horror)—Not that FP —Yes,; that The curtain descends with a mournful creak as father and son eject the second maid into the whirling blizzard s not permit atonement—you know not 1 declare that you love her bbin, Suggestions on How to Spend the Day When It Gets Here) By Inexe Haptey tion of food. Eat something you dislike, or something \ grees with you. Then you won't want to go any place nd keep [ F¥0H find yourself enjoying your breakfast, vary your scle 1 1 can thus arrange to be nicely miserable at home the family occupied by waiting « If you feel like reading, substitute calendar for your favor 10 ite magazine. Much dismal enjoyment can be obtained by adding up dates, guessing at the duration of cold snaps, ete. Vari ous devices will suggest themselves with practice. In this manner you can keep posted upon weather conditions, if not upon current events. If you and your wife have been in the habit of looking over the newspaper to gether and comparing your views upon items of interest, try storing up your week's grouches for discussion. By care fully holding onto each one, you will soon be able to accumulate quite a selection If you can’t blame the war for your troubles, blame your wife. If she answers back, sulk for half an hour, then take a ‘2. nap. If you wake up feeling almost amiable a short walk tothe cemetery will serve to re duce your spirits to the proper equilibrium Hide the sugar-bowl before the next meal. Also the butter. This will serve to remind you that you are a poor creature after all, and shouldn't really expect to be happy in this world, nor permit your neighbor to be. Slap the kids if you catch them smiling, and then slap them over again for crying because they were slapped Forget to kiss your wife good-night—it may be against the law. And you usually forget anyway, so what’s the difference? prawn by Wiensnn Coren ALC Irchitect—1 kxow wuert | CAN GeT You A COUPLE OF VERY FINE MANTELPIECES OF THE ADAM PERIOD. Mrs. Newrich--You NEEDN'T TRY TO MAKE FUN OF ME, YOUN was. [atn’r QUITE So IGNORANT OF THE BIBLE AS TO BE- LIEVE THAT. Pe a. ae comicbooks.com