Judge, 1919-07-05 · page 15 of 36
Judge — July 5, 1919 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page showcases early 1910s American satire across several pieces: **Fashion Note**: The main cartoon mocks the "hobble skirt" craze—restrictive women's fashion that severely limited movement. The joke: a gentleman must literally roll his immobilized female companion on wheeled "pumps" (shoes with rollers) across Fifth Avenue because she cannot walk or bend. The satire targets both the absurd fashion and the gallantry required to accommodate it. **Moving Pictures section**: Deadpan mockery of newsreels' mundane coverage—"King George reviews journeymen tailors" and similar trivial events treated as major news. **Other humor pieces** include: - A joke about Prohibition's effects on a man's marriage (he saw "double" when drunk; now sober and alone, he despairs) - Social commentary on luxury becoming necessity after one "acquaintance with it" - A golf lesson about precision The page satirizes fashion excess, media banality, and Prohibition's social consequences—all contemporary 1910s concerns.
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