Judge, 1921-06-11 · page 25 of 36
Judge — June 11, 1921 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century American satire: **"Clothes!"** satirizes class prejudice. A well-dressed man entering a hotel is mistaken for a vagrant because of his shabby appearance and is ordered out. After shaving and changing into fine clothes, the same porter doesn't recognize him—illustrating how superficial appearance determines social treatment. **"It Cured Them"** jokes about disruptive whispering during a church service. A young couple's loud kissing noise during revival meeting unexpectedly silences them—the "cure" being public embarrassment rather than the minister's intended rebuke. **"Worthy of His Hire"** is a brief exchange where a woman married for money is told her husband has "earned it"—wordplay suggesting he's justified his fortune through her companionship. The bottom cartoon (caption visible) appears to satirize amateur psychology, mocking how people interpret dreams with manufactured "shocking" significance. All pieces mock vanity, social pretension, and human weakness—standard Judge magazine fare.
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Clothes! Hy Wiiutast Sastoxp ENTERED a hotel today dressed in old fashionable clothes and wearing a dilapi dated hat and pair of shoes. In my hand I carried a dirty look ing old bundle. a three days’ growth of beard As I whisked into the wash room I heard the manager say to a negro porter: “When that the wash On my face was bum comes out of room tell him to get out of this hotel and stay out!” The moment I was inside the wash-room I bolted the whisked a razor from my pocket quickly but thoroughly Then I peeled door and shaved myself off my old togs and opened the dirty bundle from which I took a bran new French flannel suit white shoes, a nifty golf eap, col 7] It Cured Them By Fraxk L. Brooks NY public speaker knows how annoying it is to have some one hold a whispered conversation in any part of the auditorium while he is trying to keep his thoughts upon his sub ject Ata revival mecting recently during the Sunday evening ser vice a young minister's attention was divided between his subject and a young couple holding a rapid-fire conversation behind the girl’s fan. The minister had looked hard in their direction a number of times, but as that had no ap preciable effect upon them, he finally turned his full attention to them and stopped speaking with the intention of giving them a severe reprimand. As lar, tie and silk shirt which 1 | / , the congregation turned as one quickly donned. 1 rolled the | garuse—- to see what had caused the dis old stuff up in as small a bundle Bras — —~ turbance, a resounding smack as possible, dropped it out the line ie! Riciér akioWe.A vor'or Wesidte avuiien. “W4S_ beard Vall “over'the house window, where it fell in an ash barrel, lighted a fifty-cent cigar and unbolt the door stepped out The moment the negro porter saw me he turned and went up to the desk and as I sprawled in one of the big, easy chairs and gathered up a newspaper I heard him can do for him!” The minister was not interrupted a say to the manager: “Dat bum feller muster done gone out door. manager, glancing in my direction replied: Go over and es, he must have seen the way I looked at him and beat it out the gentleman if there is anything the hotel Paradox as of two lips coming together ina kiss. A practical joker sitting just back of the couple had caused the illusion by kissing the back of his hand at just the right moment to produce the desired effect Worthy of His Hire Dar warn’t nobody in de wash-room, but You can buy cord at a cordage sale, but You married me for my money! dit gentleman over dar, sah And the you can’t buy rum at a rummage sale He—Well, ve earned it! { Drawn by Ouve Wer THE UNFORTUNATE “UPTOWN” LALY AT THE “DOWNTOWN” TEA-PARTY HAS JUST TOLD OF A BEAUTIFUL DREAM SHE HAD ANDO —THE AMATEUR PSYCHO-ANALYST IS NOW EXPLAINING THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DREAM, WHICH IS “PERFECTLY SHOCKING. j i