Judge, 1921-02-26 · page 13 of 32
Judge — February 26, 1921 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine ## Upper Cartoon ("Mother—By the way, Ethel...") A domestic scene satirizing parental hypocrisy about late-night socializing. A mother warns her daughter against staying up late at parties while the parents themselves are heading out to the Hurleys' party. The joke critiques the generation gap and double standards of adult moral authority—parents don't practice what they preach. ## "Throwing the Bull" Section A brief dialogue joke playing on Boston's educational reputation. "White" accuses "Brown" of exaggerating claims about education's influence on local slang, using the phrase "tossing the taurus" (a pun on "bull")—a witty rhetorical challenge to his credibility. ## "Chaff and Wheat" Poem A philosophical meditation contrasting cheap machine-made dolls with the earnest craftsmanship of non-Western artisans (Indians, Hindu workers). The poet questions whether modern consumer culture's mass production represents genuine civilization or moral progress, or whether we remain "savage." The concluding stanza suggests true civilization persists despite—or alongside—barbarism. The page reflects early 20th-century anxieties about mass production, cultural hierarchy, and authenticity.
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y. Posten Laxcons + A.C. axo | are GoING THE Way, Eruet, your WAY HOME? ‘Ou! Morier piar, po you rr— By FATHER SON YOUR Daughter THINK YOU Certainty, 207 Production Sobriety, 14 Wealth, 175 Celibacy, Cowardice. Health, 04 Cleanness, 146 Virtue, 100 Danger, 260 Ugliness, 2 Strength, 196 Usefulness, 110 Chance, 212 Discord, 37 Imbecility, o Forgetfulness, 110 438 70 169 Success Doubt, Folly, 406 Slowness, 206 Prosperity Ignorance, 249 Sanity, 43 Enmity, 126 Maxims, 17 From this table it will be seen readily why we find it so difficult to understand the League of Nations, the fourth dimension, Christianity, Bernard Shaw, civilization and_his- tory; and so easy to understand Harold Bell Wright, baseball, small steak medium, hell, silk hose, Charlie Chaplin, politi and their mothers. Throwing the Bull Brown—Boston's high standard in public education seems even to have had a beneficial influence upon slang used here in your city White Do you really mean that, or are you merely tossing the taurus? OUGHT TO STAY UP ro tae Herneys’ party. Counps’r you axp Jack CALL For AS LATE AS THAT Chaff and Wheat By Barret Loosus N the store window a cheap doll marked Sold, at the price of worth Moves me to mockery on civilizations: (I see in memory the bizarre freaks of wood-carving Indians Who, aiming at beauty, hit humor. (I see the gems the Hindoo smooths into garish gods, Aiming at wonder, hitting the grotesque. (I see, too, the engrossed labor, the laying on of hands Of those natural priests of craft, seeking perfection; (Only to look again at the machine-made doll to ask: Is the appreciation of the market that calls this forth (The measure of Today’s aspiration?) I am set pondering by this perky paucity: Is it, in its scale, also in our a ¢ blotchy canvases and enduring? Phose tinpanny tunes—Do the stars sing them? Those half-caught thoughts muttering through the anthologies— Are they the crown of time on Numbers? Or have we been savage all along? (Yet I know a true civilization, Co-existent with barbarism, (That ever shall be, as it has been always, more lovely).