Judge, 1921-02-26 · page 10 of 32
Judge — February 26, 1921 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical pieces typical of early-20th-century American humor: **"Coffee for Two"** (main story): A darkly comic tale where Amelie plans to poison her husband Norman with a "demi-tasse guaranteed to kill the tobacco habit in twenty-four hours." The joke's twist: Norman switches their cups, unknowingly drinking the potion himself. His tender response—reminiscing about their playful habit—suggests he's unharmed, making Amelie's murderous anxiety ridiculous. The satire mocks both marital tension and the era's dubious "tobacco-killing" patent medicines. **"The Race for Small Houses"** (top left): A simple domestic joke about a wife calling her husband to wait outside while she receives a caller—implying infidelity or impropriety. **"Couldn't Have Been"** and **"Request Filed"** (right side): Brief jokes about a tenant mishearing radiator sounds and a manicurist's witty comeback to a customer's dating proposition. The cartoons satirize everyday middle-class life, marital anxieties, and commercial quackery through exaggerated scenarios and punny wordplay typical of Judge's style.
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young crowd called it a love ceremony?” Amelie choked on the last dregs of her cup. Suddenly she rose. A burst of hysterical laughter claimed her as she rushed out of the room, In the hall she leaned against the wall, still weak with her insane hilarity. For she realized that she had drunk an re demi- tasse guaranteed to kill the tobacco ha in twenty-four hours! Every Day Labor, love, sun, rain, Truth, falsehood, loss or gain, When, but, if, peace, strife, This and that—Life Couldn't Have Been Landlord—You say you've been hearing suspicious noises around your apartment. What Tue Race ror Sau Houses did they sotind like ; ME, SAGE FOR OM ARE NCTO Tenant—They sounded like “HENRY DEAR, WOULD YOU MIND WAITING OUTSIDE ror A waite? Mars. Jones ts CALLING . J heat in the radiators, but of ON we.” * courseit couldn’thave been that. R67 LG Coffee for Two Request Filed By Manton Lyow Fanmaxns Fresh Gent (to manicure girl) How about getting the nails MELIE had chosen this night because it was the maid's — filed, Girlie?” night out and it would fall to her to fix the after-dinner Manicurist—Dlease take the chair. coffee. Norman was waiting in by the library fire. “And how about a date for tonight?” Amelie’s hands shook as she lifted from its hiding-place the “T'll file that request, too.” leave no trace | potion guaranteed to kill and Could she go through with it?) i VY . . And what if the world found all 4 out? A jury of women would @ understand But men She stood condemned already! Still, Amelie felt that a great principle was involved. With high courage she poured the powder into the cup destined for Norman and watched it dissolve fasci natedly The coffee looked un changed. But what, if after drinking it, in the moment that was left, he raised his eyes to hers and she saw that he KNEW! She shuddered After putting his cup before him on the small table by the fire place, she went out into the hall to compose herself. Her pulses were throbbing. She felt suffo- cated. Then she went in again Together they drank. But his eyes did not accuse Rather, they were tenderly reminiscent as he remarked, “I changed the cups =~ and took yours, dear; remember — Drawn by Ross Wesrovin how we used to do that? How the “Wraravez KNow apout THat! Tuey're UsIN’ "EM IN THE HOMES Now.” 10 comicbooks.com