Judge, 1916-12-23 · page 13 of 32
Judge — December 23, 1916 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains six animal-themed comic vignettes satirizing human society and vanity: 1. **Milk baths for beauty**: Mocks wealthy women's cosmetic obsessions by showing fashionable mice claiming milk baths ensure health and beauty. 2. **Ostrich egg gift**: Satirizes absurd gift-giving and self-improvement pretensions among the wealthy. 3. **Broadway restaurants**: References contemporary upscale dining culture, with mice patronizing fancy establishments. 4. **Crow's sport coat**: Gentle mockery of fashion consciousness and status-seeking through clothing. 5. **Parcel post migration**: Jokes about wealthy people's seasonal migration to Palm Beach, depicted literally as animals mailing themselves. 6. **Detective and suspicious tracks** (bottom): Features "Hawkshaw Quack," a parody detective character, unable to recognize obvious animal footprints—satirizing incompetent investigators or absurdly overwrought mystery narratives. The overarching theme: anthropomorphic animals mimicking human social pretensions, vanity, and folly. The humor relies on incongruity and exaggeration of contemporary upper-class behaviors.
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_ “I'm giving my wife an ostrich egg, so that in laying her own eggs she will have an ideal to strive for.” “It is to these wholesome milk baths, my dear, ? n Aunt Myra Mouse—This must be one of that I owe my marvelous health and beauty.” Yi the swell Broadway restaurants we've heard VAL so much about “Doesn't Mr. Crow's new sport coat give him = aR | Hawkshaw Quack, the detective —“Ah, a distinguished air!” | Hat 1 must follow this up—these are suspic cious looking tracks!" “Good-bye, George — I'll see you . . in Palm Beach. I'm migrating by parcel post this year.” First come, first served.