Judge, 1919-12-27 · page 8 of 37
Judge — December 27, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple satirical pieces reflecting early 20th-century anxieties about technological modernity: **Top cartoon**: Depicts a man returning from a flying machine, sickened by human contact. The satire mocks both aviation enthusiasm and modern civilization's invasiveness—a common anxiety as flight technology emerged. **"On Trial"**: Jokes about automobile culture and language standards; the defendant prioritizes the car over his own behavior—satirizing car-obsession among the wealthy. **"How Long, Oh, How Long?"**: Mocks the relentless pace of modern spectacles—aerial marriages, boxing matches, band concerts—suggesting society has become absurdly preoccupied with novelty and celebrity events. **"Man, the Tyrant"**: A brief dialogue satirizing feminist lectures and male indifference to progressive causes. **"Irony"**: Observes class inequality: rain falls equally, but only the wealthy can afford taxis to escape it. **"Fantasie de Loon"**: Imaginative satire about Moon tourism becoming a fashionable resort where different social types pursue their peculiar interests—mocking both technological optimism and human folly. The overall tone criticizes modern excess, technological disruption, and class disparities.
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his non tinued flight around the Earth, hoping for a breeze that would blow his yellow machine out of its orbit. Humans were all right ata distance, but their invasion of his mouth, ach and appendix had sickened him eyes, s So he tuck and took a tail-spin to Hades. where he melted with all on board na reef in his orbit one day On Trial “The officer says you used bad language.” “When he stopped me I was in a tantrum.” “Never mind the make of the car.”” How Long, Oh, How Long? Today we read about a marriage cerem performed (2) in an aeroplane, hovering an the « Yesterday a boxing-match place in th aerial ba ig rok air, and the day before yesterday d-concert: was given—the synco an Drown by Rawxsoate Rosen: Mes It Is ‘ pated blare of brass tumbling earthward from i Mrs. D Yes, indice tions on i the clouds } } How long, O Lord, will it be before we may places these over one hand of his pal with just the sé read in the morning paper that an cight-pound boy was born : If, to Lt. and Mrs. Hyfly—during slight? grip as you have been taught to wonder if he is g y “fore” and make a swipe with it, but he only wod-bye, Jack. If I don’t Man, the Tyrant 1 come back, you'll tell her, won't you What was the nature of her lecture?” Then there is the warm tenacious n “She was denouncing man, the tyrant | | vocal artist whose sole amt in life is to pay peor Any men tyrants there to listen?” | for dying, i. e., the insurance hound. There ts no other Not at the finish. What few men tyrants were there soon Haid like it. He holds your hand while he asks you what © slunk out.” 1) will happen to your family should you be suddenly He] sniped off by Father Time. The way this man looks Irony | after bereft families is beautiful. I cannot underst “Remember, it rains on the just and the unjust alike.” | st generally are the ones who can afford | how there can be orphan asylums and homes “Yes; but the un aged when this man is out every day working his darnd- to hire taxicabs and et wet.” | est. This man’s hand-shake costs you something. Millions of hand-shakes i might receive honorable men- | tion here, but time is short and the subject is long. It is just as important to know when to chop off an essay as it is to 1} gauge the length of a hand- i shake. Enough! i: Fantasie de Loon HE trip to the Moon could now be made by elect ro-ether truck in eight hours. It had become the fashior summer resort of the Eartharians i le Ba Puritans went there to thaw t | t out High-livers went there to cool ott Hi Artists went there to sketch ie! the Earth Reformers went there to study i perfection in death Promoters went there to intro by WoO. Winsox FAL ea heating system. But the man-in-the-moon con- yy the way, Mr. Otten, | wish you wouldn't add up the date with the rest of the bill at the fifth of the month.” comichooks.