Judge, 1919-03-29 · page 7 of 32
Judge — March 29, 1919 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several brief humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines: **Top cartoon**: Shows two office workers gossiping about a coworker's stingy honeymoon—a wedding banquet at an Automat (self-service restaurant) and movies at Niagara Falls. The humor targets penny-pinching husbands and modest honeymoons. **Main story**: A longer piece about a couple who rekindled romance by lunching together regularly, presented as heartwarming advice. It satirizes how marital tedium sets in quickly. **Smaller jokes**: Include quips about military discipline relaxing post-WWI, an oyster's indifference to its surroundings, a husband's disappointment with a gift, and rural dialect humor about mild winters. The page reflects 1920s concerns: marriage dynamics, consumer culture (Automats), post-war social changes, and class-based humor. Nothing here requires specialized historical knowledge beyond recognizing this as light domestic satire common to the era.
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Drawn by Eowano Moses “Isn't that guy that Myrtle married a kind of a tight-wad? I bet the honeymoon consisted of a wedding banquet at the Automat an’ a trip to the movies of Niagara thought of it, did you? And we were glad you didn’t. Yes, we’ve been married over four years. After the first year we became petulant and ‘settled.’ Then suddenly we realized we had let our dreams of romance and love and happiness escape. No one else was at fault but ourselves. Then we heard of this place one night when we were dining with some business friends of Larry’s, and I asked Larry afterwards why he never took me to lunch any more. “*T thought you were too busy,’ he said. But I saw that thereafter I was not too busy, and so we've been lunching together—an old married couple. And it’s been romance coming back and back and back. I must go now, but good-bye all of you! What a love affair I’ve had here—and with my own husband!” But Mademoiselle was still exclaiming, “I’ve had young lovers and old lovers. I’ve had engaged couples and wives fleeing from their husbands for the com- panions of their souls —but never, never be- fore has le bon Dieu given me a married couple in love with each other!” Proof Jane Willis—Don’t you think the fact of the war ending will mean a relax- ation in army discipline? Marie Gillis—Indced yes. Why, the privates in our Girls’ Cadet Corps are beginning to gossip Drawn by A. Macueyexr The Comfortable Oyster By Texsxyson J. Dart The oyster has no eyes or ears, although he has a stomach Which, when contrasted with his size, is quite a portly hum- mock. But he can’t sce unpleasant sights, and, deaf, he hears no clatter, So if he gets enough to eat, the balance doesn’t matter. He Never Would “Hubby, I thought I’d buy you something you'd never think of buying for yourself.” “You succeeded,” he said as he darkly viewed his nonde- script gift. Plots Writer—To what magazine should I send this anecdote? Friend—Send it to a film company. It will make a peach of a five reel picture. How He Knew “The past winter was an unusually mild one in this region, was it not?” inquired the tour- ist. “ "Pears like it was,” replied Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “'Tennyrate, my wile, who ’tends to such mat- ters, gives me to under stand that we used only about three-quarters as much stove wood as about our officers already. A Fisuinc Smack common.” comicbooks.com