Judge, 1923-08-11 · page 5 of 36
Judge — August 11, 1923 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct satirical pieces from an early 20th-century American magazine. **Top cartoon**: Shows people with umbrellas in rain. The caption depicts class commentary—Mrs. Goldrod boasts her daughter isn't poor, while the Suitor responds he's "poor enough for two," suggesting fortune-hunting or ironic commentary on class pretensions during courtship. **"Retrospect" poem**: Appears nostalgic, reflecting on domestic life changes—servants departing, formality replacing intimacy, and financial shifts ("gold has set its royal mark / Upon our house"). **Bottom cartoon**: Domestic scene where Mr. and Mrs. Wed discuss breakfast. He claims to hate the food; she reveals it's a free sample, suggesting commentary on consumer culture or marital economics. The page satirizes early 20th-century social anxieties around class, marriage, and changing domestic customs.
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Mrs. Goldrod (boasting)—My daughter is by no means poor. Suitor—That’s all right. me as a expert and I nearly over L switch engine twice It ain't fair to us graduates and they aught to give us badges or something so people could tell who we was, as most of us took the courses in good faith and expects fair treatment, for if things is going to stay like they is now, anybody what is ambitious to succeed might just as well go away to college as then you at least get a pennant to hang up in your room and save a lot of postage besides. st Retrospect by Edmund J. Kiefer AY Juar fun it was to help you wash The dishes long ago- Two happy playing children, we, With all of life to know; No servants then tween The union of our lives, No binding, stiff formality Like other men’s and wives’. got run to come be- Now gold has set its royal mark Upon our house and home Now time has set a different scene And servants go and come; You dress for dinner, afterwards You sing and play for me The kitchen now is closed to us, T hope ‘twill always be. sat He ean who thinks he ean; he’s canned who thinks he can’t. “otnes.” exclaimed the four-year- VE old son after working desperately with his fork and a dish of jelly with the whipped cream eaten off of it, “Its no use, [simply can't eat this nervous stuff.” ery There is no harm in a lady of any age having her hair bobbed so long as she doesn’t attempt to toss her much, head too ttt Tobias—These new dances have the ruination of many a young girl! Josiah—Lost in the shuffle, as it were! SQ Mrs. Wed—There you are, eating that break- By fast food you always said you hated! Mr. Wed—Yes, but this is a free sample. 3 I’m poor enough for two. Through by Katharine Carr “Wwo nN?" said them aw Fripperies, vanity, « rand prattle, Feathers and folly sufficient to rattle Even the knowingest man of his day. ‘Take them away! Esther, Vashtiand Balkis, Semiramis too. I'm utterly through. IUs nothing but trouble but say, One minute—you Who is that cute little creature in blue? Isn't she New?” Solomon, “Ts and) worry “Women?” “Neve ain. Why, before the just got from Ani I was off of my head you, old man. The argumer seandal, nervous strain Never in! Dark, blue-eyed or fickle or true, I'm utterly through. It's nothing to me if they're peaches or plain... . By the way—who Was that smart little girl who just nodded to ? Isn't she said) Harry Smith, that I divorce T assure severe gray, false, New?” st the way, has any enter. prising manufacturer named a cigar after Henry Ford yet! comicbooks.com