Judge, 1919-08-23 · page 7 of 36
Judge — August 23, 1919 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page The cartoon depicts a humorous beach scene where a grandmother is being startled by her grandchild's excited report that "This Sailor Says He's Tattooed All Over!" The joke plays on the grandmother's assumed prudishness and shock at such a revelation—a common comedic trope of the era mocking older generations' sensibilities about tattoos and sailors' reputations. Below, the "Egg View News-Notes" section contains mild small-town gossip and humor: two-cent stamps being adopted without public concern, someone wanting to trade his dog, insurance agents being bothersome, and a man ordering strangers from his property thinking they'd wandered into different woods. The page also includes "The Dream Pocket," a sentimental poem personifying a tobacco pouch as a repository of memory and imagination—typical of Judge's literary content balancing satire with whimsy. Overall, this reflects early 20th-century middle-class American humor: mild social commentary, small-town eccentricity, and nostalgic sentimentality.
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Drawn by Jonn Conarwen “Ou! Gran’ma!l Gran’ma! ‘Tuts Sattor Says He’s Tarroorp Att Over!” Egg View News-Notes stamps are now being freely bought By Leste Vas Every WO-CEN at this place, without any show of concern on the part of the purchasers. How quick the pub- lic is to get used to a change that has an agreeable effect upon the change in the pocket of the public! Corny Paine wondered to a stranger yesterd whether the world would stand another thousand years. The stranger told Corny he hoped so, as he had just bought a home on the instalment plan. Tink Nitz wants to trade his dog off. Tink claims that actions speak louder than barks. Plato Prouty doesn’t like life-insurance agents because they never have any free-trial offers to make. Chet Lumley and Ote Gimber bumped heads in the xrocery yesterday, when Miss Phrony Edgin dropped a dime. Muley Cannon, who has got home from Pollywog, is enjoying the distinction of having been flew over by Sherm Spoor ordered two strangers out of his weed- patch Wednesday morning in a hurry. One of them explained that they thought it was the Moon Lake woods. ‘Truman Bilge, who heard a katydid at the movie show Saturday night, would have felt better without his whiskers along. The Dream Pocket Ry Bexyawin De Casseres Iam a tobacco pouch, Stuffed with a thousand drean Heavy with the magic of reverie My shredded treasure is more potent Than the »-Leagued Boot Or the hat of Fortunatus. Lam the little Castle of Memory and Hope, The lotus-leaf for the Mouth of old King Care, The amber pool where poets fish for images I am your old tobacco pouch. eee ————— eee comicbooks.com