Judge, 1915-04-10 · page 7 of 24
Judge — April 10, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple brief humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century American satirical magazines. **Main Cartoon:** The top illustration shows a man examining a toy automobile next to a real car, complaining "Dat's de woist o' dem cheap machines!" The joke satirizes mass-produced, inexpensive toys—likely commenting on rapid industrialization and consumer culture's flood of low-quality goods. **Text Pieces:** The remaining content consists of short poems and joke dialogues addressing contemporary social concerns: rising costs of living ("High cost of food and flowers"), postal service inefficiencies (a clerk warning about letter weight requiring extra postage), marital dynamics, and romantic disappointments. **Overall Tone:** These pieces reflect pre-WWI American anxieties about modernization, consumerism, and changing social relations, delivered through light verse and witty dialogue rather than explicit political commentary. The humor relies on readers' familiarity with everyday frustrations of the era.
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The kid—Dat’s de woist o' dem cheap machines! Restless Close Figuring Bewildered AY, don’t the sunbeams tingle Postal clerk—Your letter just balances, HE PHCEBE and the chickadee, The ichor in your veins? ii if it weighed any more, you would The bunting and the jay— I tried to learn their colors And remember what they say. But, oh, there are a million birds, With twice a million ways! The subject is bewildering. I wonder if it pays! For though I've studied all the calls— Say, do you care what's doing Ho “‘Chip-churr’’ and soft ‘*Coo-00''— In this great world of ours— ~~ ON The only one of which I’m sure The crimes, the shames, the ‘‘stew- Yh y Is ‘*Cockadoodledoo."” ing,"” / 1 —Beulah Rector. High cost of food and flowers? You don’t! No vice or virtue And don’t you wish to mingle to put on another stamp. With those who hold the reins? Pretty blonde—Gracious! I'm glad I didn’t And whisper, don’t the breezes Which bring you warmth and joy Tell how some trout stream teases To have you as a boy? sign my middle name! Even Lily—What a handsome coachman you've got! Yy " Daisy—Yes; but you ought to see —A. Walter Utting. aN if i my husband's manicure! Looked New to Him ; SS) / Tantalizing Randolph—Is that Buxton’s new A h } | Hy i ‘ This spring, if you are feeling gay grl with him? And life runs in a pleasant groove, It's safe to bet your wife will say Her mind is quite made up to move. Sylvester—Oh, no; that’s just one “Many happy returns, mamma! Here's a nice birthday of his old ones painted over. present I got for you." comicbooks.com