Judge — December 25, 1920 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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December 25, 1920 And everybody is doing it OU don't have to know any more about drawing than a pantograph to win one of Jupce’s Wig gle-Wobble prizes. People who are sending in their ideas of what the wiggling line suggests to them are demonstrating this fact. Your outlines have only to be funny, It’s like making a picture out of a knot-hole ora stain on the wall, It’s worth trying, anyhow. All you have to do is to trace y out the Wiggle-Wobble shown at the top of the right column and then add lines to it which represent anything in the heavens above, the earth below or the waters under the earth The first prize ($25) and all the other prizes ill be awarded not for good drawing but for the humor conveyed in a few lines added to the Wiggle- Wobble. A lot of people all over the country are send. ig in their ideas—people who never drew a line in'their lives. ‘They've merely taken a pen- cil in hand and made funny-looking people and animals by continuing the Wiggle-Wobble—just as we have shown on this page. It’s larg matter of imagination whether your Wiggle- Wobble pans out amusingly. You'd be sur- prised to learn how large a percentage of v serious people are devoting some of their ev ning hours to the creation of grotesque objects based on the Wiggle-Wobble—a judge, a doc Mopesty A Very Wito Cat ANYBODY CAN WIGGLE-WOBBLE some are receiving Judge’s cash prizes aggregating $50 a week tor, quite a few lawyers, lots of literary people and a raft of folks who believe in good fun and the possession of $25. It’s up to you to get in on this popular game You'll be tickled, we'll say, when you se handiwork reproduced on this page. Don’t be too mode Make vour foolish little drawing nd it along to JUDGE the really funny Wiggle-Wobbles. if we would have to a ral pages to JUDGE to show all the clever Wiggle-Wobbles sent in. Ad se Frost tue Own Sop But every one is going to have a chance. We want to amuse our readers and if you can help us do this and at the same time receive real money—Why not? Wiggle-Wobbling requires very little time, no skill as an artist, no paraphernalia, no_ tools other than a piece of paper and a soft lead pen- cil. If you haven’t yet made a Wiggle-Wobble try this new one. You have a sense of humor or you wouldn't be reading this copy of Judge. and that is all the Tits ts vie Wicere-Wonare, Can you saxe A FUNNY PACE, FIGURE OR ANIMAL BY CONTINUING THE SILLY Line Anove? Try rr AND WIN THE $10 PRIZE—OR ONE OF THE THREE $5 PRIZES SEE WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE—ON THIS PAGE equipment you need to make a funny picture out of this week’s Wiggle-Wobble. Go to it! Trace the outline on a sheet of writing paper and then add to it anything the wriggling line suggests. Five minutes of Wiggle-Wobbling may bring vou a check for $25. Send your Wig gle-Wobble addressed to the Wiccte-Wonpte Eprror, % Juver Fifth Avenue New York City From rin “Sor” Wap The Professor Gives a Party By Cynu. B. Ecax HOUGH it was really his wife who gave j the party, the responsibility for the mode of the evening's entertainment rested mainly with the Professor. On the night efore the affair, they sat discussing what sort of diversion they should offer their guests, and suggestion after suggestion made by the wife vas promptly pooh-poohed into the discard by her More Learned Half. “Bridge?” she finally quericd, in a sort of despair. “Stupid,” said the Professor. “Well, we can’t play going to Jerusalem There was a silence, in which the Professor opened a book and abstractedly glanced over its pages—then. “TL have it,” he shouted—“‘here in this very book. ‘Measure Your Mind’!—See, 201 it says: ‘The Psychological Tes vides an altogether amusing parlor div With the host acting as examiner..." George, the very thing—we shall make the Psychological Test the pitce de résistance of the evening!” And it came to pass as he said 2s “How novel!” cried the guests, when paper and pencil were put into their hands, and they apprised of the purpose of the game. or once the Professor felt at home at a social functio He was in his element. He ruled the examination: he cried “Go!” He cried “Stop!”; he asked the company if a cow had more than three legs to mark the « within the right-hand corner of the isosceles triangle— if not, to indicate the negation by drawing three circles within a truncated dodecahedron; he asked a hundred other questions, the effort to answer which in the prescribed time brought (Continued on page 26) wel