Judge, 1918-10-12 · page 9 of 32
Judge — October 12, 1918 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains multiple short humorous pieces typical of Judge's satirical style: **"A Long Shot"** depicts village social life during WWI-era America (references to "German spy" suggest the period). The joke: villagers gather downtown nightly not for entertainment but in hopes of witnessing excitement—fires, fights, car accidents, or scandals. The humor satirizes small-town boredom and people's morbid fascination with disaster. **"The Seven Ages of Wilhelm II"** (top illustration) appears a political allegory showing Kaiser Wilhelm II's military progression through different ranks/stages, likely satirizing German military hierarchy. The remaining pieces are brief comedic vignettes mocking social conventions: a wife's pragmatism regarding epidemics (making her husband write a will), a politician's fear of impropriety when interacting with children due to changing dress standards, and commentary on artistic mediocrity. The tone throughout is lighthearted domestic satire rather than hard-hitting political commentary.
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Dracn by Geonce be. Camis A Long Shot By Tos P. Morcan “ONE phase of your village life that mystifies me,” said is the fact that every pleasant the hypercritical gues evening almost the entire male portion of the population comes down-town and loiters aimlessly around until time to go home to bed. They do not seem to enjoy it to any great extent; they gossip without animation, lean wearily against the buildings, sit on the railings, and yawn the time away. Why do they do so? There isn’t anything worth waiting for, and——" “Usually there ain't, it’s true,” returned the landlord of the Petunia tavern, “but ’most any time there might be. No- body ever knows when a fire or a fight will happen, or an auto- mobile will run over somebody, or a German spy may be un- earthed, or a lady will ketch her husband buying ice cream for an adventuress and lap-jack him with arawhide,or something of the sort. And you can figger how foolish they would feel if it happened when they weren't here to sec it.” Tue Seven Aces or Witneto II. “Huh?” Drava by R. B. Poutes Aunt Jesiaa’s Inga or Our Boys Creaninc Out a German Trencu Low Ebb “Art at a low ebb, I call it.” “The artist painted this picture as a pot boiler, and the purchaser bought it to fill a gap between two bookcases.” Solicitude “Did you do something to protect yourself against the epi- demic?” “Of course!” “What did you do?” “T persuaded my husband to make his will.” Deserved a Venus Husband—It is a strange thing, but true, that the biggest fools have the most beautiful Wife (pleased)—Oh, you flat- terer! A Cautious Congressman Sampaigning, ch?” “Why don’t you pat the litue girls on the head?” “Too risky. In former days a little girl was a girl who wore short dresses, but that doesn’t go any more.” comicbooks.com