Judge, 1921-07-16 · page 5 of 38
Judge — July 16, 1921 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The top cartoon, drawn by Hamilton Williams, depicts a street scene where a well-dressed visitor encounters a homeless man. The visitor offers money ("I'll gladly take a chance on your Hooch'ry m' calit!"), while the poor man claims to have "stuff" to sell. This appears to satirize Prohibition-era illegal alcohol dealing—the casual way even respectable citizens engaged in obtaining bootleg liquor. The remainder of the page consists of Stephen Leacock's humorous essay "My Hotel Breakfast," discussing the mundane experience of ordering breakfast in hotel dining rooms, with accompanying illustration by H. Fisher. The content is primarily literary rather than political satire.
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Drawn by Hasitos Wittiams Host—Ir You FEEL LIKE A SNIFTER, OLD MAN, I’vE SOME STUFF HERE—I DON’T KNOW IF IT... . THAT Is, 1 CouLDN’T GUARANT— Visitor—Tuat’s Aut RIGHT, Tommy, I'LL GLADLY TAKE A CHANCE ON Your Hoocn’y m’ catuit! My Author of “Nonsense Novels,” “Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich,” “Frenzied Fiction,” Etc. VERY morning when I sit down in a hotel dining-room to order break- fast, I spend twenty minutes in deep thought over the bill of fare. At the end of it I order bacon and eggs. Very often—in fact usually—I call the waiter into consultation as to what kind of a suitable, agreeable, more or less novel breakfast a man might profit- ably take. When he has done his talk, Torder bacon and eggs. Sometimes I get the headwaiter in on it, and ask him questions about fish. Task him how is his sole this morning, and he says it is excellent. Task him can he recommend his sea- bass, and he says he can. As a final and definite inquiry I ask him what about his bluefish, and when he says that his bluefish is delicious, I say to him, in that case will he kindly bring me some bacon and eggs. T have heard it said that liver and bacon makes a good breakfast: I knew aman once who said he had tried it. And I met one day a man on a train who said that a lamb chop is an excel- lent thing for breakfast: but when I asked him if he had tried it, he said that he had often meant to but that person- ally he always took bacon and eggs. Hotel By Steruen Leacock In fact, I believe that they all do. At every hotel I see men sitting at the break- fast table with a bill of fare in front of them, thinking deeply, with a waiter standing behind them babbling about bluefish: and in the end I always hear Drawn by R. B. Futter As Ir Seems wuen You're out oF Gas. 5S Breakfast the waiter say, “Bacon and eggs. Yes, sir.” Indeed my own opinion is that in all the big hotels they don’t really have anything else to eat in the place except bacon and eggs. They just write down all that stuff about bluefish to look well and to let the guests think. In reality there is only bacon and eggs. Yes they do say that Scotch oatcake and honey is a nice thing for the break- fast table. Some day I certainly must try it. Or, no, to blazes with it. Let the Scotch eat it! Merciful Words Editor of Automobile Department — You shouldn’t say “Mr. Jones bought a second-hand car of Mr. Smith.” Cub Reporter—But that’s just what he did. Editor—Of course. But you should write it, “Mr. Jones is the new owner of Mr. Smith’s car.” Publicity Pays The dimples deep of lucky Kate, Have lost their ‘luring charm, of late; While Mabel now wins with all ease, Her only dimples grace her knees. comicbooks.com