Judge, 1921-05-28 · page 29 of 32
Judge — May 28, 1921 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **advertisements and light humor columns** rather than political cartoons. The main satirical piece is "Signs of Madness" by Broun Heysa, which uses fashion and consumer culture as a vehicle for social commentary. The author observes that post-WWI America is exhibiting signs of collective insanity through increasingly absurd fashion trends. Specifically, he mocks: - The clash of clashing, non-blending colors now fashionable (referencing the League of Nations as a metaphor for chaotic mixing) - Frivolous millinery trends like "glycerine ostrich" - Fruit vendors' displays with impossibly garish produce colors The satire critiques the frivolousness of 1920s consumer culture and women's fashion obsessions as evidence of societal madness. The piece concludes darkly, suggesting this obsession with material trivia signals "the slow but sure death of womankind." The page also includes Arthur Murray's dancing instruction ad, Hudson River Day Line tourism ad, and a light poem "Smoke Up!" about family smoking habits—typical Judge content mixing commerce with gentle social observation.
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>CE May 28, 1921 Make More Money ‘Dancing If vou know how to dance, teach dancing all or spare time. Others are making 00a vearas danci ational Institute Dancing and learn ARTHUR MURRAY Foremost Social Dancing Authority Thad the root and hip today a ig, send 2e tor trial lesson, ONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL DANCING Dept. 28, DUNN BLDG. NEW YORK Signs of Madness Rorn Brepsa 1 more evident that 5 g crazy sighed er sigh for my Years ago I ter-women they hiked to Washington 1 of worry over r as kept 1 they tore t panes, but ail th nothing nothing al the Sprit ings. i te hington ¢ appre signs of insanity, but [A the milline Perhaps lands that | rate, the saleswor that “the re the os” or are the real Turk 1 had hea “turkey red” and supposed that only advantage s its fast color, its lack ever had I scen turkey-green Green is not the word this Orange is not orange but me, or spark, or tangerine One never speaks of ordinary blue, but. of Harding blue. I nose that black is called Ponzi sable, an hite, angel-shade or alt hue And the con All the primary col ors and their offsprings are bunched together aftermath of wars in foreign dd the excitement. At any red me over and over fading qualities no, pardon 1 It is jad coque-de-roche, or tl season ations! LEARN PIANO! ting Free Book “Waar ts rest Pa \ HOLE IN YOUR POCKET on onc hat. Notice that I do not say “blended together,” for colors must not blend this sea“on To blend is bad form. C Ss must clash down at each other and lo as esque and Czecho-Slovakic as pos swear up Afghanis! sible They must mix like The League of Nations into one crashing whole Feathers and flowers are all newly different this year, too, Glycerine used to be a word used in drug-stores, but now it is applic millinery. Glycerine ostrich! What k bird is that? And trich, too. Nowers are made Sprin gobs of wo' that comes t sassafras, skun appear on one And fruit! . { make an Italian fruit vender’s display jade with envy Purple apples. Kelly green cherries, cerise Drawn by Leo Kourn Two Sovis witn But a Stncte Sxor(e)t 29 Hudson River by Daylight id of rolli De Witt Cli to the Day Line on May 14 to October 23 in- clusive. Daily including Sundays. All through rail tickets between New York and Albany accepted. Send 4 cents for literature. Hudson River Day Line Desbrosses Street Pier, New York cauliflower, artichokes and raisins; everything massed and plenty of it 1 told one saleslady that I was looking for a small black hat. She stung me with a g . Black?” ‘Why, my dear his is not Of course « mourning hats put away out of plums, she eve-browed black season. I had only one thing to mourn for was the slo ut sure death of woman- kind. Death caused by insanity must be a terrible thing! Smoke Up! By Seeant Taner TOW father chews his cigar While mother “rolls her own.”” Dear sis is strong for tailor-mades. And likes to smoke alone. i Aunt Tabby likes a long cheroot And Willie shoots the snipe; Big brother swipes his pills from sis, And grandma hits the pipe Shave, Bathe and Shampoo with one Soap.—Cuticura Cuttcura Soap Is the favorite for safety razor shaving. comicbooks.com