Judge, 1920-09-11 · page 7 of 32
Judge — September 11, 1920 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains multiple brief satirical pieces typical of Judge's format: **Main cartoon** ("Hungering for Trouble"): Two dogs—one thin, one fat—discuss a "hunger strike." The fat dog suggests they protest by refusing food, a joke mocking the seriousness of actual labor strikes by applying them absurdly to animals. **Other short pieces** include workplace humor ("On Second Thought"—a doctor sees a "bilious" patient thinking he said "bilious ache"), sports satire ("All Balled Up"—blaming equipment for poor tennis), and theatrical commentary ("Qualified Praise"—contrasting a critic's praise with an actor's earnings). **Lower cartoon** depicts a man hand-cranking a self-starter car repeatedly—satirizing early automobile technology's unreliability, when even supposedly automatic starters required manual cranking. The page reflects early 20th-century preoccupations: labor unrest, emerging automotive technology, and entertainment industry gossip—delivered through Judge's characteristic rapid-fire gag format.
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Ferret and Mrs. De Jijjiji, muffling their nostrils, peered in at the head with plaid hair. No, there was no mole on that chin -not even a chipmunk. “Tt is true!” they exclaimed “it is certainly not Dainty. Who can she be—or have been?” “Let me look A loud voice had entered the room with an artistic gesture. It was Webfoot the corset-drawer. Ah, that green box!” he sighed, “how well [remember it!” He, too, peered in, and his voice grew as tender as a vanilla eclair after a forenoon in a sunny shop win- dow, “My model!” he wept, “my lost’ model which I boughted from the Westchester Wax Fig. ger Company— that I intended to get cight dollars for, at Jenks’s. And lo, what is this?” With infinite precautitude he lifted out a tin-foiled parcel. “T thought it had been stolen by the Venezuelan next door,” he cried, “but thank heavens here it is-my dear old model Limburger! And Ferret, glad though he 1013 was to enjoy a rest, was glad not to suffer arrest Tue Very Down with the Enemy This charge up San Juan Hill is great. How Camera Man did you put so much pep in the su Direcior—Told ’em there was 4 blockh Lae Passing It To be kept out of prison a pri made toa lawyer. The lawyer, being a devout man, yielded half with the princely gift built a chapel, wherein he delivered a noteworthy series of sermons on the Sin of Profitcering. And he was listened to, with much inward . by the victims of the profiteer, who did not know, of course. that it was their money that had made both the chapel ind the chapel sermons possible. minister Same Way with Humans ‘There’s more joy in the swatting of one persistent fly, than of fifty ilies who mind their own business. The Expression Is Outgrown “T never hear anyone speak of a ‘leg show’ any more.” “Perhaps the term clusive enough.” isn’t. in- \ Ter lle Im Draen by T. S. Scuavast Huncerinc ror Trousie “Say, oLp citar, I's sick or voING TIME. Let’s co ON A HUNGER STRIKE!” I was always fond of Verdi, whether on the hurdy-gurdy t seven plunks a seat I heard his stuff. And my pride in him is sturdy, but some people think that Verdi Didn’t utilize the cowbell quite enough. Exp pers? 4 stock of wet-goods Qualified Prai “He is the head of our profession,” said the critic “And the dead-head of ours,” retorted the theatrical man, in the On ofiteer gave reserve h his fee to an On Second Thought Caller—1 have a bil— Office Girl—Dr. Everbroke is 2 an important case. Caller—I have a bilious ache and— Office Girl—Oh!_ Step right in. The doctor will see you at onc all that he had is reputation of ster. The ead- All Balled Up “You play an ignorant game of tennis!” said the captain of the team, “Tt’s the fault of my racquet, dodged the hopeful candidate, “the strings aren’t taught.” Next Year First Student—Did you have a wild party in Bob's room? Second Student—Awfully sporty. Harry got sick on toasted marsh- mallows and we broke up about Nine o'clock singing “Landlord, fill the cookie-jar.”” Drown by T. 5 Towser Tue size oF setr-staxTeR JENKS THOUGHT WIS LITTLE CAR REQUIRED—AFTER HE MAD TO CRANK IT BY MAND A FEW TIMES.