Judge, 1920-06-05 · page 10 of 36
Judge — June 5, 1920 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three satirical pieces reflecting early 20th-century social humor: **"Yes, Sir; Quite So, Sir"** mocks nouveau riche pretension. A man boasts of hosting an elegant dinner for college friends at $2.50 per plate, but the actual menu is absurdly meager—a single clam, radish, olive, thimble of coffee—revealing the gap between his aspirations and means. The joke targets social climbers attempting to appear wealthy through dining. **"The Wrong Cut"** satirizes a husband's embarrassment when his wife's expensive new hairstyle actually copies another woman's (Kate's), not the fashionable style he praised. He's humiliated that his compliments were coincidental. **"Every Advantage"** and brief sections like "Crabbing Her Act" and "Great Expectations" offer short quips about absurd social expectations—women expecting humorists to be funny at home, or expecting flowers to match seed catalogs. The overall theme: satirizing class pretension, marital misunderstandings, and the gap between social expectations and reality in early 1900s America.
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