Judge, 1915-01-23 · page 12 of 24
Judge — January 23, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon**: "Why Not Make the Fashions Characteristic of the Wearer" satirizes 1920s fashion by depicting various supernatural and mythological figures (angels, demons, witches, skeletons) dressed in contemporary women's clothing. The joke is that fashions of the era were so extreme and bizarre that they made normal women look like otherworldly creatures. It's mocking the disconnect between everyday dress and the fantastical silhouettes and styles then in vogue. **"Her Eccentricity"**: A brief anecdote about an eccentric aunt so strange that institutionalization seemed inevitable—poking fun at upper-class eccentricity and family embarrassment. **"His Pipe"**: A poem about Percy, a recent college graduate with grand political ambitions and an affectation (his meerschaum pipe), who attempts to reform the world but ultimately fails and becomes disillusioned—satirizing idealistic youth and pretension. **Bottom dialogue**: An Irish-accented joke about a wife and doctor performing repairs (likely pregnancy-related), using period working-class dialect humor.
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