Judge, 1920-04-10 · page 10 of 36
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# Analysis: "Motor Trips When the Car Is Laid Up" This is a humorous advice article by Harry Hamilton addressing a common early-20th-century problem: families stuck at home on rainy Sundays when their automobiles couldn't be used. The piece satirizes this inconvenience by proposing indoor "motor trip" games—parlor games adapted with motoring themes to entertain housebound families. The top cartoon "Too Many Directors" depicts film production chaos, likely mocking the era's emerging movie industry and its proliferation of competing directors on set. The games described—"Going to Jerusalem" (musical chairs), "Blind Boob's Buff," and "Jacking Up the Piano"—are traditional parlor games given motoring nomenclature. The satire lies in the absurdity of trying to recreate the excitement of automobile outings indoors while maintaining a facade of automotive adventure through renamed games. The illustration shows typical upper-middle-class indoor entertainment, reflecting how dependent leisure had become on automobiles—so much so that rainy weather demanded elaborate substitutes.
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