Judge, 1920-03-27 · page 6 of 36
Judge — March 27, 1920 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: **"His Deplorable Condition"** (right column): A dialogue between Gap Johnson and Jurd about rural hardship—starvation, crop failures, and inability to feed livestock. The satire targets rural poverty during what appears to be an agricultural crisis period. **"Compromise"** (left column): Commentary on marital compromise, where the author discusses "Big World Affairs" with his wife by reducing complex topics to domestic simplicity. The satire mocks both intellectual laziness and how serious matters get trivialized in casual conversation. **Lower cartoon**: "A Certain Carpenter Is Suspected of Intending to Build a House"—depicting what appears to be public suspicion or concern about construction plans, though the specific reference remains unclear without additional context. All three pieces employ Judge's characteristic satirical humor targeting contemporary social and economic conditions.
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with all words that spur the imagination, unhealthily, to images of drinkables and fever the throat with sugges- tions of illicit libation! Let the punishment for their use be drastic—something in line with our present income tax laws which drive men to carn large salaries so that state and government wastrels may still (pardon the slip) be able to employ their personal press-agents and continue the glcrification of our moral status before all Christen- dom. Compromise I used to discuss Big World Affairs with my wife. She could not them, however. So we agreed to discuss Domestic Problems — Clothes, Drawn by GB. Inw understand they made me Houserunning, and So On. But I could not understand them. So, without being conscious of it, we drifted back into dis- cussing Big World Affairs. . . You see, it nettled my wife—my lack of knowledge about matters she elaborately explained to me. But when I told her all I knew about Big World Affairs, het lack of knowledge—immensely relieved me. Drawn by Caawroa Yous s A Certain Carpenter 18 SUSPECTED OF vl T ett four bananas ick. 6 His Deplorable Condition By Tom P. Morcan “How’s everything been going with you, Jurd?” asked Gap Johnson, of Rum- pus Ridge, Ark., of an ac- quaintance who hailed from up near the head of Fiddle Creek. “Been having a toll- able hard time to get along, I hear tell?” “Awful!” was the dreary reply. “Wife and children durn nigh starved to death last winter. I figgered one time that I’d have to get rid cf some of my dogs. I hain’t_ made no crops yet, worth speaking of. I’m all down in che back, too, and wife’s rhoumatism is so bad that she cai’t handle a hoc or ax a-tall, skurcely. And, actual fact, Gap, we hain’t had a new enlarged crayon picture of any of our folks made since ‘way last fall!” An’ vthen TI s-slipped on Hesitant Hubby “Myrtle’s husband is really a nice man, but so vacil- lating.” “How do you kno “Myrtle says he spent a full hour yesterday trying te de ide whether he would wash the car, the dog, or the baby.” InTENDING TO Buitp a House comicbooks.com