Judge, 1914-06-27 · page 12 of 25
Judge — June 27, 1914 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **entertainment and humor content** rather than political satire. The main feature is Judge's Motion Pictures—a series of small comic strips showing "Little Johnny's Glorious Fourth," depicting Fourth of July celebrations with physical comedy and explosions. The accompanying text discusses vaudeville performers Chris and Lena, who succeed with a sketch mocking women's 1920 fashion trends, particularly "How Stout Ladies Will Dress in 1920." The right column contains **light social humor**: "Rotation" is a poem about young men's romantic cycles across seasons; "Our Human Zoology" plays on animal metaphors for human types (men with "horse sense," people as "snakes," etc.); and brief jokes about Cubist art and military training. The humor targets **1920s fashion absurdities** and **cultural fads** (modernist art, changing courtship patterns) rather than political figures. For modern readers, the satire reflects Jazz Age anxieties about rapidly changing women's styles and youth culture—treating contemporary fashion as inherently ridiculous.
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by a troupe of trained frogs, advertised to entertain with ‘‘ground and lofty tum- bling, feats on the A> elevated wire, and marvels of trapeze and horizontal bar dar- ing.’’ Even trained frogs are indifferent mad to praise or censure. Chris and Lena quarreled a little, each blaming the other, and then they began. to plan for the future. Chris really had no ideas, but Lena showed initiative. She told Chris to go downtown and find some writing guy who could fix up a dialogue making fun of women’s fashions. ‘If he'll give you a few feedin’ lines,”’ she said, ‘‘I'll make 'em sit up all right. If 1 don’t make a hit, I'll divorce you an’ marry a farmer." Lena had the right hunch. When she went back for a tryout to the manager who had fired them, he laughed himself JUDGE'S MOTION PICTURES black in the face. When a manager laughs at a tryout, it’s as phenomenal as pers} ration on the roof of an ice wagon in August. And the audiences before whom Cbris and Lena ap- peared in their new sketch were as pleased as the mana- ger. It was a scream. It was called ‘‘ How Stout Ladies Will Dress in 1920, by One of Them.”’ Methodically Mad Is Annabelle ina mad passion? That her hat’s on one eye And her hair's all awry Means but that she’s in the new fashion. Society's Blue Book secures its leaves from family trees. TT F- @) THE WAY HE FELT IN HIS FIRST DRESS SUIT Rotation | N THE spring a young man’s fancy : Lightly turns to thoughts of ¢ love; In the summertime he woos her, ¢ His own darling turtle dove. In the fall he seeks a lawyer To undo the knotty twist, And the winter finds him planning For another springtime tryst. —Louise Beach. Our Human Zoology Men with horse sense. Lucky dogs. Stupid asses. Sly old foxes. Snakes in the grass. Lame ducks in polities. Social lions. Bears at home. Slippery eels. Loan sharks. Gossipy old hens. Chickens. | Jealous cats. ’ Up to Date r To me a Cubist painter cried, } ““My very latest effort see!’’ i A twisted god of love I spied; ’Twas Cubid, his divinity! Query Trooper—I've got to attend rifle practice to-night. Friend—Are you learning to be a pickpocket? comicbooks.com