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# "How Times Have Changed" - Judge Magazine Satire This page satirizes **early 20th-century consumer culture and changing social expectations**. The main article by Harvey Riggs contrasts family life "twenty years ago" with the present day, documenting how modern conveniences and leisure aspirations have created financial pressure rather than comfort. The satire targets: - **Wives**: Once satisfied with manual labor (washboards), now expecting electric appliances while consuming expensive luxuries - **Husbands**: Demanding expensive automobiles (twelve-cylinder speed wagons) instead of modest buggies - **Children**: Sons avoiding chores through entertainment; daughters prioritizing beauty parlors and theater over household duties - **Overall message**: Technology and rising consumer expectations have made families perpetually "broke" despite labor-saving devices meant to improve their lives The cartoon below ("Prohibition Pirates") appears to mock alcohol prohibition enforcement. The humor stems from depicting how modernization and social change have ironically worsened financial security rather than improving it—a critique of unchecked consumerism and status-seeking behavior.

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Drawn by WO. Wasox +b ALC, * Was old Bilyun interested in that proposition you: made him? “Not in the least. He wasn't any more interested than a waiter is after he's got his tip.” up. When he did sit up he was still rather weak and trembly, but his eyes glowed with triumph. “By heck,” he said, “! don’t let no prohibition in- terfere with me when | make up my mind to have tobacco.” He had to rest awhile and then he said: It’s got the real Connecticut aroma all right!” We had to rest another while, and then he said: “But it ain't quite got the strength the good, old Connecticut leaf used 10 have.” before he could: say any How Times Have Changed By Harvey | WENTY years ago mother was satistied with an old aine wash-board and a hand wringer that clamped onto ¢ battered wash-tub. ‘Today she sits complacently beside the electric washer, with wringer attachment, and eats two - dollar -a - pound bon-bons while she reads the society sec- tion of the morning paper. Twenty years ago dad was content with the flea-bitten old gray mare and a squeaky buggy. Today he is not satisfied un- less he can go forty miles an hour Drown boy Kose Werstoven Promimition Pirates: THE Ed ina twelve-cylinder speed wayon equipped with bumpers, shock absorbers and spot Twenty years ago dad and mother wore darned socks and stockings, mended clothing, and half-soled shoes. ‘Today they wear pure silk hose—and they would be shocked if the neighbors should see mended places in their clothes or half soles on their shoes. ‘Twenty years ago son donned a pair of blue denim overalls and did the chores morning and night. ists too late in the morning to do any chores and at night he finds it impossible to do any work around the house because he’s invited to “sit in” a game of penny ante. Twenty years ago sister tied a red bandanna handkerchief around her head and dusted the furniture and swept the floors. - Today she has an carly-morning appointment at the beauty parlor, a date with her girl chum to attend the theatre, and expects to get her new silk dress from the dressmaker’s in time to wear it tonight when Joe calls. ‘Twenty years ago the family was content to sit in the kitchen and breakfasi on bot cakes and coffee. ‘Today the family cat: breakfast in the breakfast room or th: «ining room—a light breakfast of grapefruit, ham and eggs cereal, waffles and coffee. And we wonder why we're always broke! Quite Fitting "Tis said the quail is quite extinct, I do not care a jottle, It’s just as well the famed hot bird Should go with the cold bottle. The Same Thing Barr—I hear that you are leading a double life. Carr—Not exactly. It’s costing me double to lead the same life Ted years ago. Sob Stuff “This book is damp, Yet evidently it is not just from the press.”” “Nope. The girls cry so over that book we simply can’t keep it dry.” New Menace to Avtomopite ‘Tourtsts