Judge, 1919-06-07 · page 11 of 36
Judge — June 7, 1919 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains satirical mental ability tests mocking the era's obsession with IQ testing and "scientific" psychology. The absurd questions (e.g., "Who wrote Gray's 'In Memoriam'?" followed by "Why?") ridicule pseudo-intellectual assessment trends popularized by figures like psychologist James McKeen Cattell. The "Famous Trojan Horse" section extends the joke with intentionally nonsensical logic puzzles combining historical facts with meaningless arithmetic. "Homeward Bound" is a soldier's poem about WWI troops returning home—references to "O.D. coat" (olive drab uniform), "barracks," and "pre-war days" indicate soldiers anticipating demobilization and civilian life's pleasures (food, jazz, women). "The Fatherly Instinct" presents rural dialect humor where a backwoods father admits he'd be lost without children to yell at—typical period working-class caricature humor. The cartoons illustrate these pieces with period-appropriate drawings emphasizing the satire's targets.
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What Is Your Mental Age? By HOW HERE is little doubt left in | the minds of our most ob trusive educators that a man’s ability to think and do varies directly with his speed and answering scramble of fool questions. Jever, following its exalted pur pose of keeping well up in the vanguard of all that’s worthy, has secured the services of Professor Bennie Simon Scales, A.M.,Ph.D., and other things that mean little or nothing, to keepits readers sup- plied with thoroughgoing, easily applied tests. If you can do the following in nineteen seconds flat without making more than three mistakes, your mental age is 03 years, 4 months, and 13 days. If you cannot, you are all right Test A. If 2 plus 4 equals 6 ditto, underscore t ing sentence which follows. Davis ageuracy in mad Sixce Farmer Brown’s New Hee Came following questions, omitting one now and then in geometric digression. t. Who is vice-president of the United States? What time of day is it at 219 minutes after a quarter to half-past three or four? 3. Do you wish you had married someone else? 4. Who wrote Gray's “In Memoriam”? 5. Why? 6. What is the opposite of “dope”? Have you any use for a personal devil? 8. In how many ways are you a hypocrite o. Why not? If you have answered the third question nestly pull your left car with the thumb and index finger of your right foot and draw a futu ristic sketch of your luck. “Drawn ty A. BL WaLxnn Julius Napoleon discovered America in is the correct date, why is it improper to eat peas with a gravy ladle? Tue Famous Trojan Horse Hasn't Any- tuinG on Tuts Promrrion Came. he first monosyllable in the preced- If 1492 How many feet has a goose?—a line of blank verse? three and — two-thirds rods?. If the second answer in the three preceding questions is more than the number of joints in both your little fingers draw a ring around Rosie, but do not rub out the dot over the “i” unless the op- posite of hot is bold and should be spelled with a ‘‘c”’ instead of an ‘*x.”” Test B. Supply answers to the own by Mankenare Rew He The next tim Fourth of July of the divorce was my IT marry Homeward Bound Ry Pet N. EB. Haxouen, A. BLP. PIPE down, “signals right” and reveille Farewell, you Saturday tion We're gonna lamp Miss Liberty, We hope before the next election We'll camphor up the O. D. coat, And write “finee”’ to clothes of khaki. Bring out the “vin” inspec on which we dote And let the welcome knock us rocky We howl with glee when rumors drift That 3-0-6 will hit the high-sea— Our ebbing courage gets a lift To think we'll leave these barracks icy Prepare the cupboard, let it creak, And polish up the china dishes; Wewantagreeting—not someck Just smother us with what's delicious; We're coming back to pre-war days; Tune up the jazz-band, make a riot, And go the limit forty ways! Don’t let no gloomy: birds decry’ it The Fatherly Instinct “Some men don’t ‘pear to keer no more for children than they do for toads,” admitted Gap Johnson, of Rum- pus Ridge, Ark., “but, as for me, if 1 didn’t have a pack of kids around all the time to cuss and yell at, burhung if I know how I'd pass the time!” J anni stmas or the t will be either on Ci