Judge, 1921-07-09 · page 7 of 36
Judge — July 9, 1921 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("Irresistible Impulses"):** Satirizes the modern challenge of controlling women's fashion. Shows men struggling to hold down women's skirts, likely referencing the rising hemlines of the 1920s era. The joke mocks both women's fashion liberation and men's embarrassment or loss of control over social propriety. **"The Little Flaw" Story:** A young man (Archibald) interviews for a job and cynically confirms that business life matches magazine fiction—he'll be overlooked, underpaid, rejected if innovative, then later proven right and promoted. The punchline: when he asks to marry the boss's daughter, the boss has none. Archibald leaves, disappointed the fantasy is incomplete. The satire mocks both naive job-seekers and unrealistic business-magazine tropes. **Bottom Cartoon ("His Wife"):** A husband caught "backsliding" (likely drinking or misbehaving) tries to deny it, claiming he was "only looking at that man." His wife reads his guilty expression. Satirizes marital suspicion and male excuses. All content reflects post-WWI social anxieties about changing gender roles and workplace expectations.
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er Ma. a? tome. e. of Pa. , and Drawn by Ganpver O. Rea THE PRESENT DAY’S (ALMOST) IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSES—HOLDING DOWN THE WIFE’S SKIRT. The Little Flaw By Harry Irvinc Saumway RCHIBALD WITTS was not one of those young men who plunge boldly into an important venture | only to experience regrets later | from lack of proper investigation. He had read too many magazine stories of business life to make that mistake. Hence he was doing a little questioning on his own be- half, and the gray-haired merchant seemed only too willing to answer him. “Sir,” said Archibald. “I might get into a rut here in this tremen- dous concern. Yet if I did, youun- doubtedly would notice me some morning for no accountable rea- son?” The older man answered him carefully. “There is always the possibility in so great a business of becoming amere cog if a young man lacks ini- tiative. But don’t think for a min- ute that you would be unnoticed. I know every man among the eight hundred who work for me.” “Ah!” replied Archibald. “That is fair enough. And you would probably keep my salary down even if l assumed the place of the man ahead of me?” “Well, the mere fact of your going up a notch would simply mean you had the chance. The increase in pay would come from your own efforts.” “I see,” said Archibald. “Then when the time came for me to pro- pose the change in the firm’s policy which was to increase its business two-fold you would refuse to listen to me and then later on admit you were wrong and I was right?” “Most assuredly you would run against a snag if you suggested anything very radical. Still, if you put it over, of course I should be glad to acknowledge defeat and Promote you.” ~'*Splendid!” breathed Archibald. “It is all just as it is in the stories then. I thought they were only His Nibs—E-p-R—YOU WRONG ME, DARLING. OVER THERE! lies of fiction. And now I suppose you would have no objection to my marrying your beautiful daughter, even though she was far above me?” alas Drawn by Cavvert Sutra His Wife—I can see BY YOUR EYE THAT YOU’VE BEEN BACKSLIDING AGAIN! 7 “T have no daughter,” replied the gray- haired man sadly. “Hell!” sighed Archibald. ‘Well, thank you for your time and trouble. I'll be on my way to find a big concern where every- thing checks up 100 per cent.” Times Do Change Willis—So you think our Civilization is is—Surely. The world was created in six days and it takes the average New Yorker eight months to get a divorce-suit. Vanished Opportunities Young Germ—What makes you so sad, mamma? Old Germ—I was thinking of the good old times when women wore dragging skirts. I swear, I WAs ONLY LOOKING AT THAT MAN comicbooks.com