Judge, 1910-08-20 · page 11 of 16
Judge — August 20, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge presents **"Blasts from the Metropolitan Megaphone,"** a humor column by Roy K. Moulton mocking New York City society types and urban life circa early 1900s. The satire targets wealthy pretension: A man can't play trombone in his tiny flat; a socialite takes her entire family to a supper date uninvited; an heiress refuses foreign dukes but worries she'll find no one else; a Tammany Hall politician voluntarily retires after 82 years (implying he's incompetent yet clung to power). The comic strip panels titled "IT PUT HIM IN A REMINISCENT MOOD" show slapstick humor—figures being hung upside-down, then twisted into absurd positions—typical Judge visual comedy. A final anecdote about farming involves circular logic: farmers could use electricity on "current bushes" and "wire grass" year-round (puns on electrical terminology). The overall effect ridicules urban vanity, corruption, and the absurdities of both high society and ordinary people's pretensions in metropolitan life.
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JUDGE Blasts from the Metropolitan Megaphone. By ROY K, MOULTON. INCE moving into our midst, Mr. Horace Pur- dy, formerly of New Po- chelle, has been obliged to cease practicing on his slide trombone, as there "t room enough in his flat. He tried operating it out of a window, but was arrested for poking a pedestrian in the fa Mr. and Mrs, Purdy’s flat is so small that, since they got a new three-cornered piano, they have to bourd and room outside. Reginald de Puyster, one of the gilded youth of our metropolis, made an engage- ment to take Miss Mazie Tobasco, the charming danseuse, to supper after the show one night lust week. The supper was a Rreat success, but was much more largely attended than Mr. De Puyster had expected, the fair young lady having taken her hus- band, her daughter,’ and three grandchildren with her. Mrs. Percival de Shine has got into high society at last. She has gone up in an air- ship with several friends. One of the Pammany office-holders has re- cently resigned a city position he had held many years. His age is eighty-two and he is believed to be the youngest man who has ever done such a thing voluntarily. Count Ignatz Ivorybean, of Poland, re- cently arrived, has been arrested here on the charge of having no visible means of get the newspapers to take it up for them and handle it in proper style. Mrs. Jones has been posing for a Fifth Av- enue photographer for several weeks and has her proofs all ready. Miss Angelina von Pretzel, of this city, one of ovr refined and cultured heiresses, says she will never marry a foreign duke; but her friends believe < she will huve some trouble in finding ~~ any other kind, Any person by the name of Johnson who is expecting to die soon can ob- tain a splendid second-hand obituary at this office, almost as good as new. It was prepared for another person by that name who disappointed us and eloped to Eu- rope with a chorus girl at the last moment. The poetry accompanying the obituary can be altered to suit, with no extra charge. Mr. Harold Haskins has started on hi nual vacation on a sound steamer; at any rate, his folks hope that it is. Mr. G. Curtiss expects to take a flying trip to Chicago in the near future. Part of the Plant. J] SEE by the papers,” says the man with the nervous Adam's apple, “‘ that it is seriously proposed to utilize electricity to stimulate the growth of crops on the farm.” “ Yes," says the man with the disturbed eyebrows. ‘Now the farmer can use his currant bushes and wire grass the year round,"" uM IT PUT HIM IN A REMINISCENT MOOD. 1. If your automobile is wrecked — 2. —-~r turn it into a motor cycle. When Airships Scorch. Flares. EOPLE who know what they want are not hard to please. Love letters of men of letters are just as foolish as those of un- lettered men, What has become of the ‘coming men’ who didn’t “' arrive ’"? itary Litegyt' > He had not ith support. yet got acquainted an American heirs Mr. Horace Pulder, one of the members of our smart set, has just returned home after be ing presented at severa! of the European courts. He was arrested five times for shattering the various speed limits with his automobile. Mr. and Mrs. Van Courtlandt Jones are talking some of getting a divorce, if they can comicbooks.com ~