Judge, 1919-01-11 · page 7 of 32
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# Egg View News-Notes: Small-Town Satire This page from *Judge* magazine contains humorous commentary on small-town life, presented as fictional local gossip from "Egg View" and "Pollywog." The "Egg View News-Notes" section lampoons domestic disputes and petty scandals: a man arrested for drunk driving while haggling over a car sale, a woman angry over flirtation with her umbrella, and a man unable to pluck his frozen whiskers. These are absurdist, trivial complaints meant to mock small-town melodrama. The cartoon strip "Why Not Adopt the Tank Idea to Everyday Life?" satirizes post-WWI practicality by suggesting domestic solutions borrowed from wartime—using a tank idea to protect a baby ("save socks and hard knocks"), humorous because it's absurdly militaristic for civilian life. The "Grouchettes" column offers cynical social observations, including a joke about a woman knitting something for her husband's neck (possibly a noose, implying marital unhappiness). Overall, the page uses exaggeration and absurdist humor to critique small-town gossip culture and post-war American domestic life.
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Draven by Joux Heip, Ju Editor’s Note: This is an old joke but it’s still funny. She ts knitting something fer his neck. She doesn’t quite know whether it will be a muf- fler or a washrag. Grouchettes By Tos P. Morcan Soon quiet men were not that way before they were married. If you are obliged to spraddle in order to bend over you should Hoover- ize. The most unfunny humor is that inflicted on a shrink- ing malefactor by a waggish judge. In the old home town it is easy to spot a stranger by his endeavors to mind his own business. Cuttlefish are preserved in their own ink. It is a pity that poets cannot be treated in the same manner. I do not know what fi- nally became of theold-fash- ioned pest who was called a “wit,” but I hope he has gone where I am afraid he hasn’t. I make an_ invariable practice of speaking well of the dead. Only yesterday I remarked in the presence of several reliable witnesses that during his lifetime the Hon. La Follette did a number of creditable things. Abject Surrender “Well, the victory is yours. I can’t do anything with it.” By Leste ORNY PAINE, who offers his C second-hand automobile for sale, was arrested in Pollywog Saturday, charged with trying to drive a bargain while in an intoxi- cated condition. Muley Cannon made Myra Spoor very angry by getting gay with her umbrella in front of the station at train time Wednesday. She told Muley it was all right to have fun, but that he kept things up too long. The hail and sleet storm in Polly- “MRS BROW AND | HAVE . DECIDED TO DO OUR OWN COOKING. FOR FIRING THE COOK “VUL TAKE FIVE YARDS Egg View News-Notes __OF THAT ROSE-POINT LACE” Vas Every wog yesterday afternoon froze Tru- man Bilge’s whiskers stiff, making it impossible for him to pull them, when a_ beautiful young woman passed him with a smile. Button Edgin figures that it would be hard work to buy a street-corner blind man’s business, as the blind man would probably keep holding out for more money. Sherm Spoor don’t see much use of raising window curtains in the morning because they only have to be pulled down again at night. ~ POT wy Tank ) HE Dogs wel ta Ue) Foe THE ae? For TH BABY- IT WILL SAVE Socks AND HARD KWoCKS Drawn by Dox Henown Wuy Not Avopt tHE Tank Ipea to Everypay Lire? THE GREATEST BOOK OF THE WAR: ‘FIVE WEEKS ON A RATION OF BARBED WIRE AND BACK WITH comicbooks.com