Judge, 1920-04-10 · page 11 of 36
Judge — April 10, 1920 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Understanding This Judge Magazine Page This page from *Judge* contains satirical commentary on 1920s American life, presented through humorous "games" and essays. **The Cartoons:** Two domestic sketches illustrate absurd "games"—one shows a woman and child performing gymnastics with furniture (the "Blind Boob's Buff" game), while another depicts pedestrians walking. These mock the era's obsession with health fads and physical culture. **"Where We're At" Essay:** Benjamin De Casseres critiques American censorship and moral policing. He sarcastically praises the "Sanhedrin of Wise Men" (referencing censorship boards) who suppress art and literature under the guise of public morality—comparing this sanitized culture to the biblical fig-leaf covering Adam and Eve's shame. He warns darkly that America will soon produce a "Darwin of mental, moral and physical supervision"—predicting totalitarian control. **The Jokes:** Brief quips mock marital communication and fraudulent stock sales, typical early-20th-century humor reflecting anxieties about honesty in business and relationships.
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families are rom like ack” from ood pur no abou yed in homes where to indulge Get your not large enough Blind Boob’s Buff. garage and insert it, with a under your piano, Raise a foot in the air, taking care that it does not nle over, and then, having rested a minute or uwo, lower it. Th ‘a of the game is to keep yourself i ysical condition. If have no piano, a mahogany side-board heavy oak desk will serve. If there be ore than one in the game, turns may be taken, those not busy with the “jack” stand by and making what are callec oful By some, this sport is given ‘onal zest by the imposition of a forfeit for every rash word uttered by the “jacker.” much merriment Pepestreis: Here we have n the entire family may parti First, pick out an objective: in other a place to which you desire to go «having put on your hats and coats, ce feet firmly on the pavement immedi- in front of your dwellir Ata given - lead off with vour left fe throwing weight of body forward, and coming through with right foot. Make w known as a full stride, preferably from the hips, and ternate feet, right, left, right, left, right, left, ¢ direction you wish to progress. With alittle practice you will become expert and able to go quite a distance, and after a time, when you have mastered the basic principles of walking, you will be delighted to find that you can make fair speed, attaining a gait of four miles an hour with com- parative ease and a pleasant sense of exhilaration. If this pace proves too swift for you at first, due to the rush of air, unhitch the windshield from your car in “dead storage” and carry it in front of you. Shock- absorbers in the form of rubber heels may also be worn, if desired. * Light, of course, should be carried at night. your license tag may be hitched to the back of coat Game OF ame in whi t and your up into y GB. Iyeco0 Where By Besjamts De Cassexes We're At RT. literature and the “movies” are all inspected: by Sanhedrin of Wise Men before they are allowed to come forth before the public eye. Never was the country so pure before. The beautiful symbol of the fig-leaf covers painting and literary creation like the beautiful snow. We have fairly achieved a moral state of beatitude only second in its near perfection to that inanely blessed state that preceded the Fall Courts have everywhere been established—courts of first resort and courts of last resort—to suppress that most dangerous and terrible of apparitions among a free people--Genius. We move in a spiritual atmosphere of moral mental, creative. economic and_ political injunc tions © ancient art of meddling has become a sport. Moral Indignation and Righteous Wrath are running neck-and-neck with the ouija board We may predict with almost the surety of mathematical truth the rise of a Darwin of rf tal, moral and physical supervision in the Ur States in 1¢ Most of Us Do “Should a wife tell her husband everything?” “There isn’t time. He has to work seven or eight hours a day.” Easily Fixed “The stock you sold me is full of water.” “Well,” said the agent, “have a blotter.”