Judge, 1919-04-26 · page 9 of 32
Judge — April 26, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains three separate satirical pieces: **"So Clever of Her"** mocks early 20th-century wedding trends. A bride excitedly reveals her "shocking" innovation: hiring a jazz organist to play humorous stunts during the organ wedding march. The satire targets how younger couples treated even minor novelties as revolutionary, and how eager they were to share trivial social gossip. **"Eureka!"** philosophizes about memory as a burden to happiness. It argues that forgetting troubles brings perpetual contentment like childhood innocence, satirizing both self-help memory-improvement fads and overly earnest philosophical advice literature popular in the era. **"Liquid Lore"** and **"Cause for Caution"** are brief humorous vignettes. The first jokes about Prohibition-era workarounds—city men discovering patent medicines contained alcohol. The second presents rural dialect humor about a man marrying a widow with ten children, joking he won't ask why for fear of being shot. The motorcycle illustration shows a couple eloping, captioned as the "up-to-date" elopement method.
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5 ive? Draven by Jons Cosscnen This is the way Jim So Clever of Her By A. H. Fotwen. HE bride simply could not keep it secret. She I just had to tell it to somebody. “What do you think!”” she cried. “What do you think we are yoing to have at our wedding?” Some ventured one guess, some another, but all were hopelessly wrong. “No,” giggled the little bride, “you'd never guess it in a thousand years. nie had always sort of hoped his big brother in the tank corps would come home. Eureka! By Bexyasux De Casseres THe iy to remain eternally young is to ruin your memory. Memory methods are the greatest bane of the race. They teach us how to look back so well that, mentally, we begin to walk upside down. With a ruined memory one leads a life of incessant surprise, like a child. Instead of yesterday tapping you on the shoulder perpetually in your walk through life, you will always find your- self going to meet a smiling to- We're going to have a jazz organist, who will do the funniest stunts in the organ loft while he is playing the wedding march.” | And once established, the innovation proved extremely popular with all the brides of the younger dancing set. Liquid Lore Unde Ezra—These city fel- lows will find it mighty hard to go without their booze. Unie Eben—YNep, and it takes years of experience before a fellow gets to know just which patent medicines contain the most alcohol. z= Drawe by A.B. Warx Tue ELopement—Up-to-Date morrow, Practise the art daily of ruin- ing your memory. All your troubles will fly up the chimney of the past. The man who will invent a ready forgetter will be blessed like the god who invented sleep. Cause for Caution | “How in thunder did Bud Yaw ever come to marry a red- headed widder lady with ten chil- dren?” questioned a neighbor. “D'know!" replied Gap John- son, of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “I never felt like asking him, as I don’t keer much about being shot just for idle cur’osity.”