Judge, 1918-08-03 · page 11 of 32
Judge — August 3, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate humorous pieces satirizing American social types and attitudes circa WWI era. **"Why the Aerial Mail Was Late"** (top): A woman offers food to an aviator beside a mail plane. The joke plays on the contrast between civilization and frontier roughness—a man refuses to see a sideshow "Wild Man" exhibit because he watches his fourteen children eat daily, finding that spectacle sufficient. **Middle anecdote** (by Warren Dahler): A woman nursing soldiers in France resigned because she was "so attractive" the soldiers deliberately prolonged their hospital stays—satirizing both romantic distraction and malingering. **"Suspicious Symptoms"** and **"Fancy!"** (right): Restaurant workers suspect a polite, tipping customer of being a criminal because his decency seems unnatural. The final piece mocks automobile owners, comparing them to authors who boast about their own accomplishments—suggesting "flivver" (cheap car) owners are similarly insufferable about their vehicles. The humor targets working-class observation, wartime romance, and emerging automobile culture.
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Drawn by C. F. Peters No Novelty £ OME on, pea-pull! Come on!” invited the side show ballyhoo artist, in the midst of his dis- sertation on the weird, strange and curious creatures depicted on the long line of paintings. “Come on, and behold the Wild Man of the Everglades, cap- tured at the loss of nine men and $60,000 in gold! Three times a ¢ this savage monster leaps upon gurreat hunks of r-r-raw and r-r-recking flesh and devours them with terrible ferocity and blood curdling yells! You have ample time before the big show commences to go in and see it all; you have one hour. And it costs you but a dimeremembertencents!” “What d’ye say, Gap; lez go in and look at the cuss?” suggested a morbid minded neighbor. “Nope!” replied Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “I get to sce my fourteen children eat every day.” Doesn't Apply “Tt’s never too late to mend” doesn’t apply to any normal boy’s shoes. cc — wetity, BARLER® Drawn by Warren Danrer Clara—Agnes has returned from nursing in France. Billy—Why did she come back so soon? Clara—She had to resign because th soldiers found her so attractive that the stayed in the hospital over time. Suspicious Symptoms as | DON’T know what to make of that bald-he i Jed guy that "most every day, and alwa: please,’ and ‘Thank you Claudine, of the rapid fire restaurant. Why, he seems like a nice gen'le- man,” returned Heloise, of the same establishment. “He gener’ly leaves a dime tip, and never tries to get fresh or anything of the kind. Mebby he’s a minister.”” “More likely he’s a crook. Some- thing mighty queer about him, anyhow. ‘Twouldn’t surprise me if he was a high grade confidence man. "Tain’t natural for a guy to be as decent as that feller ‘pears to be.” Fancy! The Earl of Beaconsfield once said: “The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as the mother who talks about her own children.” Fancy what the Earl might have said had he known the owner of a flivver! comicbooks.com