Judge, 1921-06-11 · page 17 of 36
Judge — June 11, 1921 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine collects brief humorous anecdotes and cartoons satirizing early 20th-century domestic life and social pretension. The top cartoon "Mental Delinquency" mocks a pompous professor caught kissing a woman (Charlotte) in a hallway, who claims absent-mindedness as his excuse—playing on the stereotype of the befuddled academic. The text snippets below ridicule class anxieties: a cook who "belongs to the Revolutionary Dames" despite being Mexican; a servant unsure whether to stay after arriving same-day; an applicant named "Aleck" (implying smartness/impertinence); and a clerk excused for tardiness because he was writing enthusiastically about his job. The bottom section includes a cartoon of two women gossiping about a volcano "which overflows with lager" (beer)—likely satirizing wartime profiteering or exaggeration. The poem "From the Layman's Point of View" darkly parodies incompetent surgery, where a doctor botches a heart operation, leaving the patient unable to bleed but catching colds in his head, culminating in amputation as "cure." Overall, the page satirizes class pretension, domestic servants, and professional incompetence.
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SA L Ire an Ww Mental Delinquency Home Rules and Regulations— //er Friend—Those rules and regulations hang ing in the kitchen—are they for you? The Cook—Indced they’re not; I hung them there for the family,—New York Sun, Merely Looking Around—Visi! Why does your servant go about the house with her hat on? Mistress—Oh, she’s a new girl. She only came this morning, and hasn't made up her mind whether she'll stay.—London Punch, or His Name—“We want an alert office ” said the applicant for a job. rte” “No, sir, Um Aleck.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. A Lady Greaser—Mrs, Hiram Offun We must treat our new cook with respect She belongs to the Revolutionary Dames where she came from. “Where'd she come from?” “Mexico.""—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Not a Bad Excuse—“ That new clerk of ours won't do,” said the junior member. “Why not?” asked the head of the firm. “He was an hour late the first morning he came to work.” I spoke to him about that. He said he overslept because he sat up until 2 o'clock in the morning writing out-of-town friends and relatives about what a splendid con- Be | NR Wife—Wuart viv you MEAN wy KISSING CHARLOTTE IN THE HALL? Professor—Diw axe wites Ip Ir. Reatty, I po Nor KNOW A THING ABOUT IT—I MUST HAVE BEEN ABSENT- Wife—Heut 11's very setvom You ant so ABSENT-MINDED TOWARD we!—Karper (Stockholm). cern had given hima job. We need a quick thinker around here, and I guess we'd better keep him.”—Birmingham Age-Her- ald. Somewhere Near Beersheba, Perhaps Mrs. Profitecr (relating her experiences)—Yrs, MY DEAR, AND WE SAW A Volcano. You KNow —ONE OF THOSE MOUNTAINS WHICH OVERFLOWS WITH LAGER.—London Mail. Ya ee, St Sak > ayman’s Point of View From the A “Doc” there was in our town And he was very smart; He operated on a man And cut out all his heart And when he saw the heart was out What did this doctor do? He stitched it back in plac The man was good as new. Except that auricles and valves He had somewhat misplaced, Sc that in spite of balms and salves, The blood reversely raced. And when this man would cut himself He never, never bled But sucked in so much atmosphere He caught cold in his head. When “Doc” saw this, he took his knife For operation bold; He cut the patient's head right off And cured him of his cold! —Journal of the American Medical Asso- ciation