Judge, 1926-07-17 · page 23 of 36
Judge — July 17, 1926 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes changing gender roles and generational expectations in early 20th-century America. The two cartoon panels labeled "Marriage inducements of the older and younger generations" contrast what women were expected to want: **Left panel (older generation):** Lists traditional domestic duties—cooking, farm work, doctoring, making preserves, needlework. **Right panel (younger generation):** Shows a flapper-style woman listing modern ambitions—driving cars, playing bridge, earning her own living, drinking cocktails, making wisecracks. The satire critiques the "modern woman" of the Jazz Age as rejecting domesticity for independence and frivolity. The article above mocks permissive "ultra-modern" parenting methods (letting children have pet turtles during baths, rewarding them for hitting elderly men with water pistols), treating the era's loosening social standards as absurd. The page overall expresses anxiety about rapid social change—both in child-rearing and women's roles—presenting modernism as ridiculous rather than progressive.
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| | Ultra-modern Methods for Ultra-modern Children (Continued from page 5) go to bed. Yesterday she had six temper fits because we wouldn't let her. Happy, happy childhood, when it is led aright! Tessie’s bedtime hour used to be a time of horror; now it is the sweetest hour of all the day. Some children hate their baths. That is easily corrected, we found. For a little teeny weeny turtle or two to swim around in the big bathtub while Willie is being bathed—that’s all! Simple, isn’t it? You wonder that you ent thought of it yourself. We must, warn you to use only the however, », or it will cost you too much to k little Willie in turtles. ‘The colder the water the longer the turtles will la And the colder the water the longer Willie will last. hest of soi So there you are, are you not? With larger children you can use larger shell fish. A friend of ours has to buy lobsters now for her big boy Horace, She can afford it, as she is the wife of a Prohibition agent. Still, she need not have been extrava- gant; she started in with crabs when she might just as well have begun with shrimps. (If shell fish don’t agree with your children, lively litle minnows may be substituted.) Make life interesting to the chil- COOK TEND FARM DOCTOR. CHARLESTON SHAKE A COCKTAIL WISE CRACK DRIVE A CAR PLAY BRIDGE EARN MY OWN LIVING. Marriage inducements of the older and younger generations. dren. Make everything they ought to do interesting—that’s the secret. If they hate to go to school, try first one thing and then another, or vice versa, until you find some way to make them actually enjoy the trip to school. We have had no trouble at all with Aaron since we bought him an up-to-date water pistol and promised him a quarter for every old gentleman he hit on the way to school. And of course we keep our word, expensive as it is. (For Aaron is a very good shot, and im- proving all the time.) It was so funny yesterday! Aaron tried to hold us up for thirty cents instead of a quarter, because, it, “the old were so lon s he expressed gentleman's whiskers Isn't that quaint? And we were proud of one thing: Aaron said “old gentleman,” and not “old man.” He knows the respect due to old age. We could go on and on—but why should we—unless we get paid for it? Marian Page Johnson was Henry Ford has denied the rumor that he intends to retire to a peace country cottage. Thanks to his efforts there isn’t one. —Punch * In a cottage in Lived a man and his wife Who, believe me, were old-fashioned folk. He listened to her, She listened to him Whenever the other one spoke! —Answers comicbooks.com