Judge, 1931-05-09 · page 11 of 36
Judge — May 9, 1931 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate cartoons satirizing courtship, marriage, and domestic life in early 20th-century America. **"Tickled to Hear It"** (main text): An older man offers unsolicited marriage advice to a younger engaged man named Jim. The humor lies in the speaker's contradictions—he warns that marriage means sacrificing independence and friends, yet encourages Jim to proceed. He boasts about his own failed marriages (mentioning multiple divorced friends) while insisting marriage "develops character." The advice to have a "stiff run-in" with his future mother-in-law to establish dominance reflects period attitudes about marriage power dynamics. The three illustrated cartoons mock marital situations: an engagement ring's setting, a newlywed couple's cramped living space, and a card game where someone claims credit for a trick "over Ohio"—likely a reference to a card-playing deception between spouses. The overall satire targets patronizing male advice-giving and the gap between romantic ideals and marital reality.
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JUDGE d mile . You'll have to change your job, and I miss your old friends, but you'll have shown your independence—and that's what counts, “W , go to it, old boy. I'l miss you at the reunion next spring, and I guess we won't be going around together to those golf tournaments we used to, but what the heck! There are more important things than that. You bet your life! As I said, I'M probably be in the noose one of these days myself. d luck to you, boy, 1 sure an tickled.” —Panke Cummines “Oh, Jim, the stone is exquisite, and the setting is marvelous.” Veh, that’s the best setting that stone has ever had!” TICKLED TO HEAR IT “\ Tru, well, well, you don’t really mean that you and Alice bs I'm tickled to he honestly Dam! After all, s nothing like be ried. Marriage i at institution. Yep, I'l probably find myself hitched up one of these days in an unwary moment mean of course, if I'm lucky enough to find anybody who'll Yes, sir, it's going to be a great thing for you. Having od time is all right, but marriage is what really de- »s your character. When two young people start out without any money and try to make both ends meet it makes a wonderful test. It will be tough going, but I'm banking on you and Alice to get away with it. Yes, sir, nel I don't figure you two to bust up quickly the way Joc \, L and Cora, and Fred and Betty, and Sam and ‘Thelm: i Ted and May, and a lot more of my friends have don And another thing—you two are ideally suited to one another. You've both got char- acter and ideas of your own, I'd much rather see a young couple serap and stick up for their own viewpoints than al- ways agreeing. Why you'd be bored stiff with Alice if you thought she was the kind who'd ilways do and believe every- thing you told her. Yep, you'll have some mighty hot tiffs, but they'll probably ‘all blow over. Then another thing—her mother. Of course you might think it’s a tough break that Alice's mother is the domincer- « kind who always wants to run things, but it isn’t. No, sir. What you want to do is have a good stiff run-in with her the first time she opens her mouth, and then pull up stakes and move somewhere about a thou- “But, don’t you remember—I took that trick over Ohio.” “Say, lady, you ain't got an extra book you could lend me?” gomicbooks.com