Judge, 1921-04-02 · page 25 of 32
Judge — April 2, 1921 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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**Upper Section:** A full-page advertisement for West Baden Springs, a luxury Indiana resort hotel featuring mineral baths and entertainment—standard period advertising with no satirical content. **"The Reaction" (by O.D. Martin):** A humorous anecdote about homesick Marines stationed at a tropical base. During a movie screening of a romantic scene, the audience of servicemen watches intently as actors embrace. Just as the emotional moment peaks, a guard's call for "second relief" breaks the spell—a joke about military duty interrupting romantic fantasy and the longing of troops separated from home. **"A New Experience" (by Stella V. Kellerman):** Light verse about a woman becoming a grandmother to twins, suggesting she's lost some smugness and discovered a genuinely new life experience. The tone is gently mocking her previous confidence. **Paul Renby's Cartoon:** Shows a disappointed man and woman amid a collapsed house, joking that despite losing everything, it's the first time he's been warm since summer—dark humor about post-WWI coal shortages and winter hardship, likely referencing 1921 fuel crises affecting Americans.
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April 2, 1921 West Baden Springs A beautiful estate in the most pic- turesque part of Indiana, a wonder- ful hotel of unusual charm, a diversity of sports and entertainment, music, dancing, and delightful social life. _ Mineral Waters of Merit Baths Well-Directed and Equipped Send for Booklets THE WEST BADEN SPRINGS COMPANY West Baden Indiana On Monon & Southern RR's The Reaction By O. D. Martix T was at a far-off, isolated Marine Corps station on a tropical isle, inhabited by a people of chocolate hue. Nearly every member of the command had been away from his native land more than two years. It was an evening Jense equatorial darkness. The new movie ctor, furnished by the M.C. A., was working perfectly. The dashing, debonair drawing-room idol had been successfully vamped by the big wax-doll with the curls and cow eyes. He crushed her to his shirt-front. Their lips met in lingering ecstacy. A great sigh rose from the leatherneck audience. A full two minutes he held her thus. At last when it seemed that the bliss of that embrace must last forever and straining eyeballs would leave their sockets, there rose a call from the Egyptian darkness far up on the hill at the guard-house, high and strong and clear in the still night air, “Stand by, that second relief!” A New Experience By Srewta V. Ketverman OW, that she’s Grandma of new twins, She’s not so egotistic! She thought she knew all joys, all sins, But nov she’s Grandma of new twins, A new experience begins— That’s overwhelmingistic! Drawn by Pact Renwy Now, that she’s Grandma of new twins— On, Cuartes, isn't it Teenipte! We've Lost everytninc! She's not so egotistic! Disappointed Coal Seeker—Y-e-£-E-S—BUT 17'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE BEEN WARM SINCE LAST SUMMER. 2s comicbooks.com