Judge, 1921-06-18 · page 30 of 36
Judge — June 18, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains multiple humorous pieces targeting early 20th-century social types and behaviors. **Top cartoon** ("The Tame Bore," "The Night Owl," "Bull, Bear & Lamb"): Naturalistic parodies of human types as animal species. The "Tame Bore" mocks tedious dinner guests; the "Night Owl" ridicules Broadway socialites who avoid daylight; the "Bull, Bear & Lamb" uses financial metaphors—bulls and bears are stock market speculators who prey on innocent "lambs" (ordinary investors), visualized as threatening lambs on Lower Manhattan's streets. **"The Best Sellers"**: A clever play on women as "books"—witty social commentary equating female archetypes (homemakers, reformers, dancers, mothers) to different literary genres, culminating in the dig that wives are incomprehensible "foreign language" books. **Other pieces** mock modern foibles: movies as miraculous entertainment, Bolshevism, motion-picture actresses' vanity, and women's diminishing value after wearing silk stockings. The humor targets contemporary anxieties about changing gender roles, commercialism, and modernity.
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Drawn by ere, Je The Tame Bore (Borus terribilis) Hab. All parts of the known ewora, Very thick-skinned; emits hot air when roused. ‘Though wild bores have a horrid name; They’remuch more awful when they’re tame At dinner they're a dreadful curse, But, Ob! at breakfast, how much worse! The Best Sellers By Katwerine Nectey WOMEN are open books, but wise is the man who can read them. The home-loving woman is a book of domestic science, and her society-loving sister is a book of fashion. The reformerette is a book of jokes. The dancer is a book of poetry, and the movie queen is a book of art. A mother is a book of songs of the heart The cook is a book on evolution, and the telephone girl is a book of statistics. Wives are books written in a foreign language. You hear the words, but you do not know what it is all about. An authoress is a thesaurus, and a school- teacher is an encyclopedia. A vampire is a book of riddles without any answers at the back. A grandmother is a book of ancient his- and a flirt is a book of hymns. e was a tract rather than a book She taught us some useful things; she had no cover and only one leaf. His Coinage “Do you notice any change in young Dudely since he married that rich widow “Well, not so much in him, as on him!” tc The Night Owl (Hibus nocturnus) Hab. All brightly lighted localities. Predatory. Feeds on young of other birds, squab, chickens, ete. The night-owl is a festive bird, Along Broadway his screams are heard; Two things alone he can not stand— Water and Daylight! Ain't he grand! Cinched ¢ no sense of humor. i heir choice of hus- bands frequently disproves that. They Do ‘Em There “The age of miracles is past, my boy.” “Oh, I don’t know. Have you been to the movies lately?” Drawn by P. L. Crosser “Some DAY YOU'LL Go Too FAR, Mickey Drew!” Bull, Bear & Lamb (Taurus, Ursus and Agnus) Hab. Lower Manhattan, Chicago | Wheat-Pit and Threadneedle Street, London. Two former live on latter. Now pray observe the Bull and Bear, Consulting o'er the bill-of-fare, For them no soup nor juicy clam; They’re both unanimous for Lamb. Thinklets By Roytstox Marxian FEW girls lock their lips after the kiss is stolen. It takes a motion-picture actress to brag that she is wedded to her art before she has even had a proposal. | A Bolshevist is like a mule that kicks be cause he wasn’t born an automobile. Look at the men around you and realize, if you can, that they were once the prettiest babies in the world. At the soda counters,a former bar keeper may now be recognized by his phiz The ancient alchemist had nothing on our politicians when it comes to turning brass into gold. One of the meanest men in the world is he who comes around and borrows the um- brella you have stolen from him. Lure of the Unknown “Why do you believe in the Einstein theory?” “Because I don’t know enough to dis | believe it.” ] Depreciation in Value farie paid $5.00 for her silk hose He—Too bad she can only show $4.75 worth of them at a wearing. comicbooks.com