Judge, 1924-07-05 · page 8 of 36
Judge — July 5, 1924 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "Plaint of Fair Women" and Social Commentary The main cartoon depicts a beach scene with multiple boats and figures, captioned "The pedestrian takes to the water"—a visual pun about someone forced into water, likely satirizing some contemporary situation. The page's text consists primarily of a poem by C.R. titled "Plaint of Fair Women," which humorously articulates women's contradictory demands: men should be honest about everything *except* love—always profess devotion regardless of truth. It's satire on romantic relationships and female psychology as perceived in the 1920s era. The "Personal Column" section mocks prominent figures through exaggerated praise: Bernard Shaw flattering Harold Bell Wright absurdly; Lady Astor's banal comment being hailed as witty; Mary Pickford's bobbed hair being treated as momentous; and William J. Bryan being jokingly called a "celebrated monkey trainer." These brief items satirize celebrity worship and how the press inflates trivial actions into significance—typical Judge magazine satirical commentary on American public life and media sensationalism.
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Plaint of Fair Women 'TAND and look us in the evre— Tell the truth although it’s pain- ful— Say we're dumb and tell us why— Of our graces be disdainful; Say you hate our new spring lid— K Say your wit is ;way above us— Only lie about this, kid: Always tell us that you love us. we live too fast and high— y you think we’re bad and baneful— Tell us how you get your rye— Say your business isn’t gainful; Tell, as Schopenhauer did, Where you'd often like to shove us— Only lie about this, kid: Always tell us that you love us. Kid, if it appeals to you, Marry, gown us, hat us, glove us; But if you would keep us true, Always tell us that you love us. c. R. The pedestrian takes to the water. Our Personal Column ERNARD SuHaw will collaborate with Harold Bell Wright to produce his next play, and for this purpose will visit Mr. Wright on his American ranch this summer. “In my humble opinion,” said Mr. Shaw recently, “Harold Bell Wright is the greatest master of pure, limpid English prose the world has ever seen. I do not even except myself.” Lady Astor’s recent telling remark in the House of Commons: “It is going to be a fine day,” which was greeted with such ringing applause, was afterwards declared by Winston Churchill and Ram MacDonald and others who heard it as being by far the wittiest thing said since Calvin Coolidge said, when informed that he was President of the United States: ‘Ah, yes!” Mary Pickford has had her hair bobbed. “After all,” she is declared to have re- 6 marked to her husband, Douglas Fair- banks—who is connected in some with the “movies”—*‘After all few curls in such a mad world?” way wha William J. Bryan, who, it will be re- and — afterwarc achieved such distinction as the brated monkey trainer for Barnum’s Greatest Show, has just completed a farce comedy in collaboration with Henry Cabot Lodge, who recently, it will also be recalled, resigned from the Senate in order to join the staff of the New York World. “I nearly died laughing at it,” said the Secretary of Agriculture, when he read the first draft. and Among those youths who were seen at the children’s romping party given last week by Chauncey Depew and Charlie Eliot, were noted Joe Cannon, Henry Holt and Tommy Edison, comicbooks.com