Judge, 1920-10-16 · page 7 of 32
Judge — October 16, 1920 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces reflecting early 20th-century American social anxieties: **The main domestic cartoon** depicts a husband misunderstanding his wife's "intellectual improvement club"—he insists it's actually a "baby club" because members give silver spoons as gifts. The satire targets masculine obtuseness and women's emerging social organizations, suggesting men cannot comprehend female intellectual pursuits without reducing them to domestic/reproductive functions. **"Why His Mind Collapsed"** humorously chronicles male mental breakdown from accumulated modern irritations: arguing with wives about fashion, reading presidential campaign editorials, taking golf lessons, and listening to Congressional tax debates. It satirizes masculine fragility when confronted with everyday domestic friction and political/social complexity. **"The Shimmy Siren"** is a poem describing a flapper dancer in sexually suggestive terms—"shimmy" was a scandalous 1920s dance. It reflects contemporary moral panic about modern women's sexual liberation and entertainment culture. The page overall satirizes gender tensions, women's changing social roles, and masculine anxieties about modernity.
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“Of course she wants one. What did she organ- ize a baby-club for if she didn’t want one.” Mrs. Gray threw up her hands in desperation, and almost in tears she ntly reiterated: “It isn’t a baby-club, James; it is not a baby-club. wasted all the evening trying to explain is is a club for intellectual improvement, and you will insist on having it a baby-club. You are impossibly stupid; you don’t know wha: I've been talking about. “Oh, yes I do. You were very explicit always are,” Mr. Gray soothed. “I have i perfectly clear. You are a_ strictly highbrow club, but each of the members aims to have seven babies, just as a side issue. When the first baby comes you all chip in and give the mother seven spoons, one for the baby and the other six for the future babies. Your club has been organized ten years and seven babies at once is the best any of you have done so far, but you really haven't tried it’s an intellectual club and babies are only a side issue. There now, I've got the spoons and babies all straightened out, haven't 1?” “Yes you have!!! ca The Oracle By Haray Tavine Suvsway Most big men, important men, are bored by adulation, publicity, and the countless annoyances that seem to be the penalty for greatness. suppose I am no different from others of my kind, we have to take it all and grin. f late it has be engetting worse. 1am annoyed at all hours he greatest men in the country, men who ought to know their own minds, write for my opinion on every conceivable thing from the League of Nations to why coal is coal, They can’t seem to make a statement, put a period after it and shut up without I say O. K. A lot they'll learn from me. I shall keep my own counsel, listen with both ears, and when the time comes, and come it will, I shall tell them what is really what. And that’s that. Tam a voter. Possible Bronson—Yes, we have named the baby “Ouija.” Johnson—Wherein lies the appro- priateness: Bronson—Well, we hope that she will speak only when so directed. Tribute “How is your home beer turning out?” “T think it’s a success. The roaches are coming from all directions.” Who Gets It Friend—Well, you railroad will get your increase, I see. Railroad Man—No, The butcher MEN Prawn by Carsten 1 Bobby (to d ‘ished guest)—Gosu! Drwen by Nowass Axtuoxt Joxes’s INGENUITY ENABLES IIS WIFE To DO MosT OF THE HOUSEWORK WILE DRIVING. Why His Mind Collapsed , N the beginning he was a perfectly normal man. The trouble started when he tried to argue his wife out of wearing open- work silk stockings. Then he developed the weird habit of reading the newspaper editorials on the presidential campaign. And then he took les- sons from a professional on how to play golf and attempted to follow his instructions. § ‘The climax came when one day he sat in the gallery at the National Capitol and listened for two hours to the nation’s representatives, who debated the revision of the tax laws. After that he began acting peculiarly. The physicians at the asylum say that he is not a violent patient, but they can give no assur- ince of his ultimate recovery. The Shimmy Siren By Minna Irvine HE wears a scant black satin, A string of jade supplies The bodice whence her shoulders In powdered whiteness rise. Her lips are deeply scarlet, Her face is pearly pale, And narrowed dusky lashes Her eyes too brilliant veil. iN A thing of lights and music, Of supple, languid grace, \ moth of midnight pleasure, She flits from place to place. Not made for love or passion, Ambition or romance, Nor yet for tears or laughter, But only just to dance. (har LOA In Los Angeles é “Why didn’t you arrest that brute whenyou caught him beating his wife?” ro “T thought he was doing it for the aand the grocer will get it. GET LICKED AND SENT TO BED IF L WENT INTO DINNER WITH MY HAIR LOOKIN’ LIKE THAT. 7 movies.” comicbooks.com