Judge, 1920-12-04 · page 7 of 32
Judge — December 4, 1920 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains three satirical pieces: **"If He Came in the Daytime"** (top): A visual gag about a man so dense ("solid bone") that hitting his head with an empty whiskey bottle causes no damage. The humor relies on the absurdist premise and Prohibition-era whiskey references. **"Up to Date"** (middle): Social satire mocking working-class aspirations. A manicurist and building janitor get engaged; their families are tradespeople (butcher, coal miners, window cleaners). The joke is the ironic contrast: they plan to live on Riverside Drive (an upscale neighborhood) and considered buying Skibo Castle (Andrew Carnegie's Scottish estate), despite their modest backgrounds. "Up to date" sarcastically suggests their pretensions reflect modern social climbing. **"True to Tradition"** (bottom): A brief joke about a Boston terrier so aristocratic it requires formal dinner announcements. The cartoons on the right appear to be humorous figure studies unrelated to the text below them.
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Drawn by RB Feuen Ir He Case ts tHe Dayrite had held the last quart of whiskey in the world. It was abso- lutely empty With a bitter curse John Juggs raised the empty bottle and hit his cranium three times heavily. Solid bone! he said in a tone of d disgust; “absolutely. completely solid!” Upto Date By Karneaine Neciury HE engagement of Miss Patricia ennell and Mr. Brian Roos has been announced and the wedding place the fifteenth .of next will take month. Miss Kennell is the well-known mani- curist of First Street, and her clientele includes all the leading bricklayers. bakers, tailors and their families. Her father is Charles Kennell, a prominent butcher of Avenue 26. Her mother’s are the wealthy Masons, coal miners of Pennsylvania The bride will wear a beautiful bunga- low apron of expensive percale and her wedding veil will be of mosquito netting which has been in her mother’s family since the days just before the advent of the wire screen. She will wear the cus- tomary silk hose and low cuts of the day her bungalow apron will be knee-length and she will also wear a kolinsky neck- piece How a nt BAND LOOKS TO A WIFE AND Her three sisters, who are clevator girls in the Haworth Build ing, will be similarly attired. The wedding march will be “ We'll let the World Go By The groom is the genial janitor of the Woolver Building. He recently distinguished himself by noticing a profiteer enter his building. He immediately called the police, the profiteer was arrested and sentenced to three days in jail and was compelled to pay a $27 fine and the costs. The groom’s father is the noted window cleaner of Sixth Avenue. His mother was a telephone girl before her marriage. The young couple will go to housekeeping on Riverside Drive They had thought of buying Skibo Castle, but the bride did not want to be too far away from her mother; her husband being more or less of a stranger to her. They have only known each other six months, and it is a case of love at first sight Muleological By Stricktanp Gituitan O* mules we find two legs behind And two we find before; We stand behind before we tind What the two behind be for But like as not we'd get a swat To send us through death's door, Should nature take a change, and make The legs behind be four. True to Tradition Dog Dealer—Yes, ma'am, this is a real Boston-bred Boston terrier. Lady—Indeed! Dog Dealer—Yes, ma'am. We couldn't get him to eat like the other dogs. He'd nearly starved before we found out we had to say “Dinner is served, Waldo.” Piz | A WIPE AS SEEN BY A HUSBAND just Beroxe Cunistatas