Judge, 1919-10-04 · page 11 of 36
Judge — October 4, 1919 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Content Analysis: Judge Magazine Page **The Cartoon:** The illustration depicts a car stuck on a muddy mountain road with a driver and two men pushing. The caption reads: "Modern Daughter—Don't be bashful, dad—go ahead and swear or else I will." This is satirizing the "modern woman" of the early 20th century—specifically, a daughter challenging her father's authority and traditional gender roles by threatening to use profanity herself if he doesn't. The joke targets changing social mores where younger women were rejecting Victorian propriety. **The Text:** The page contains three humorous dialogues and a poem mocking contemporary social attitudes: - "The Day of Appetites" jokes about social climbing - "As It Was in the Beginning" makes a biblical pun about Eve's departure with "leaves of absence" - "Soft Question Turneth Away Quaff" puns on temperance debates by suggesting soft drinks are merely pretexts for ordering cocktails Overall, the page satirizes modern social conventions, generational conflict, and changing attitudes toward propriety and consumption.
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Don't be bashful, used expression—fifty-fifty. There is no record of anything that bites a fly except a long-tongued toad And it’s worth five minutes of anyone's applause to see the blink of satisfaction on a warty toad’s face after one goes down. When a toad eats a fly and a snake eats the toad and a small boy kills the snake—that’s what a $10,000 a year military expert in Washington would call a balanced ration. An aeroplane flies. So does the haughty cagle, the proud and majestic marsh crane and the sparrow (iolidius spaganthus rex). There are fly young men who appeal to the unsuspecting public through their neckties and clerk in stores when they ought to be peeled down to a modest undershirt making cores in an iron foundry. There are fly-mugs.that the tramp knows about and fly-by-nights that the fly-mug flits for. The past tense of fly is lu. And there is no variety of fly, no matter what its terrestrial mission may be, but needs a vigorous swatting to be reduced to its proper stratum in lay and vestry circles. The Day cf Appetites “You know, old man, I was going to ask you to dinner with me to-night, but I just heard Smith remark that you were going to eat with him.” “Oh—what time do you eat?” “Six o'clock.” “Well, that’s all right, old boy, Smith doesn’t eat till seven.” As It Was in the Beginning The Snake—Got your traveling clothes ready? Eve—Indeed I have. Adam gave me the sweetest going away gown you ever saw. It’s made of leaves of absence. go ahead and swear or else I will, The Main Thing By Natuay M. Levy HERE is a charming maid I know Who's fond, I think, of disputations, But then our judgments differ so And different are our inclinations. I'm very partial to the rose, While she declares for pinks and asters; To praising opera bouffe she goes, While I prefer the music masters. She thinks—and often tells me why— In poetry there’s joy exceeding, But all its pleasures I deny Since I’m for other sorts of reading, She thinks that golf's the finest game And one that active folk should follow, But I insist that golf is tame— That tennis has it beaten hollow. We argue long and give and take, But naught of wrath our talk engenders, And in the end we're sure to make The merriest of all contenders. Ho! what if we have frequently Our little differences to smother, When always we on this agr That we most dearly love each other! Soft Question Turneth Away Quaff Howard—-Are you absolutely opposed to soft drinks? Coward—Oh, no, they have their uses. Without soft drinks how could we have asked for a highball or a Tom Collins? n im icomicbooksseom