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# "A Rich Woman's Darling" - Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis This page satirizes wealthy women's indulgence of young men. The main cartoon shows an older, affluent woman embracing a smaller man in her lap, with the caption "Come, little one, give us a nice big hug! Smirked Fanny." The accompanying dialogue mocks the scenario: a woman supposedly gives her young companion an "opium-pipe," suggesting moral corruption and questionable relationships between rich widows/divorcées and their male companions. The satire targets the social phenomenon of wealthy women financially supporting younger men as romantic interests—a practice Judge's editors viewed as ridiculous and socially corrupting. The exaggerated size difference emphasizes the power imbalance and childlike dependency. The page also includes unrelated jokes about careless driving and a fish story, typical of Judge's mixed-content format.
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JUDGE “stheitent” A RICH WOMAN'S DARLING “H'm. Let's have order now. Mr. Cabot, will you kindly lock the door? Thank you, Mr. Cabot. “Will the window committee, Mr. Wilks, Mr. Campbell, Mr. 5 Smith and Mr. Lowell, kindly A take their places to sce that no one is peeping in at us? ‘Thank ntlemen. s you all know, the selection has narrowed down to two novels. One is ‘She Walks In leep’ and the other is ‘Who Shook Susie?’ Can I hear some comment?” “That ‘Who Shook Susie’ book is a pip, Mr. Chairman,” said Mr. a Cabot from his place by the door. “T sat up all last night reading it. There’s a girl in it and she married. Lam very much in f of ‘Who Shook Susie’, gentlemen.” “Can I hear from ‘She Walks . Lowell. “You certainly can. I read it twice. And I read ‘Who Shook Susie?’ only once. My vote goes to ‘She Walks In Her Sleep.’ There’s a woman in it who... you know. I learned the tenth »ter word for word. Shall I it for you, gent I think it hardly necessary, Mr. Lowell. I see by the smiles and nods of you gentlemen that you all have read ‘She Walks In Her Sleep.’ suggest we choose COME,LITTLE ONE, GIVE USA it instead of ‘Who Shook Susie?’ ” “Aye!” roared the beaning ger NICE BIG HUG!SMIRKED FANNY tlemen. “Very well. I shall notify the Junior, give mamma the opium-pipe this minute; what are \ publishers at once that we, the you trying to do, orient yourself? “What's that axful groaning members of The Boston Look and on your radio, Gramercy?” grilled Lord Greenbaum. “Oh, it’s | Wait Society, feel duty bound to just an orchestra coming out of the ether, Beresford,” confessed | % prohibit the sale of ‘She Walks Count Korngelder, And now let’s pick up “Blackstone on 4 In Her Sleep.” Torts” and see what he has to say about raspberry and strom- 2 —Rareu McGitt berry torts. That’s Something You've got to give the New York police credit for one thing: At least they find out who it is that's been murdered. A fisherman in Islesboro, Maine, caught a seven-pound codfish, with | a quart of Scotch in its stomach. Excitep Driven—I have to give all my attention to this— The cod is also prized for its if he asks you what we're doing—tell him I’m backing up! liver. 14 3 ‘omicbooks.com