Judge, 1921-05-21 · page 2 of 32
Judge — May 21, 1921 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is primarily **promotional content**, not a cartoon or satirical article. It's an advertisement for *Judge* magazine itself, titled "Making the Clock Tick a Smile a Minute." The text argues that *Judge* serves an important social function by providing humor and laughter to readers. It emphasizes that the magazine's writers and artists work hard to find genuine, "honest-to-goodness humor" among submissions, carefully curating content. The piece notes recent improvements in *Judge's* sketches, poems, and pictures, claiming each issue is "a rib-tickler." The advertisement concludes with a pitch for subscriptions: readers can pay one dollar for ten weeks rather than buying individual issues on Tuesdays. It reflects *Judge's* position as a major American humor publication competing for readership during the early-to-mid 20th century.
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Making the Clock Tick a Smile a Minute S=SYAN you imagine an existence without a smile? Can you conceive a working day with never a grin, or an evening at home without laughter? How many A) suicides would there be in a world barren of fun? 66124 Itisa shuddering thought —and an unnecessary one, for there is no excuse for any one to go glooming through life when on every news-stand in the country a copy of JubGE may be had for the asking. We believe JUDGE has proved a life-saver to many thousands. We know it has helped the morale of the nation and made two laughs grow where only one grew before. That's JUDGE’s mission—to make you laugh. It isn’t an easy job because the writing and drawing folk are a pretty serious group of humans. But then no one can sit down and say, “Now watch me! I'm going to be as funny as the dickens.’ Humor isn’t made that way. It has to strike one like lightning or bubble up from inside of one and spill over into a funny drawing or a rol- licking bit of verse or a mirthful story. It is remarkable how much honest-to-goodness humor we manage to get into the pages of Jupce. It takes a lot of scouting around among the fun-makers, a lot of weeding out of the tons of sad stuff sent in by every mail. But that’s our job and we love it; we are always tickled when we find a real gem which we can pass on to you. Of course you've noticed the big improvement in recent issues of Jupce, how the skits and sketches and ‘‘pomes’’ and pictures (an average of fifty of them in every number) have taken on an unwonted freshness and sparkle, made each copy a rib-tickler. If you are already a JUDGE fan, you know we are not exaggerating when we say “The Happy Medium” is a household necessity to many thousands of alert Americans. If you are just a casual reader, missing a number now and then, you will be poorer by every issue you've overlooked. Don't take our word for it —buy the current issue and try it on your intellect. If you don’t want to bother remembering every Tuesday to buy JUDGE, why not shoot us a dollar for a ten week’s subscription? Address JUDGE, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City. comicbooks.com