Judge, 1921-07-16 · page 9 of 38
Judge — July 16, 1921 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis The top cartoon by John Coxachon satirizes the used-car market. A slick dealer pressures a customer into buying a decrepit vehicle with 27,000 miles, claiming it's "good as new." The humor targets deceptive automotive salesmen who exploit buyers with dubious claims—a timeless con that was apparently already well-established by this publication's era. The remaining pieces are humorous prose sketches unrelated to each other: - "Upward Trend in Fashion" mocks how women's hemlines have risen, exposing knees and legs—scandalous by earlier Victorian standards referenced in the parody of Stevenson's poem. - "The Impossible" jokes about women never stopping their errands. - "Not Always" uses a Japanese typhoid patient's recovery after eating chop suey to satirize doctors' faulty logic: they credit the meal when it succeeds, blame it when it fails. - "Thoughts" distinguishes pensiveness from expensiveness through a dad-joke pun about thinking versus acting.
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Drawn by Joux Coxacuen Disgusted Purchaser of ‘Used Car” — YOU RATHER BUY A NICE CHU-CHU C. ONLY TRAVELED TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND MILES—GOOD AS NEW IN EVERY Way? The Upward Trend in Fashion G. WELLS says he is in favor of a * Bible to fit modern conditions. Why doesn’t somebody bring “A Child’s Garden of Verses’ down to date? Mod- ern children are puzzled by reading the following: Auntie’s Skirts Whenever Auntie moves around Her dresses make a curious sound. They trail behind her up the floor, And trundle after through the door. Whereas the truth of the matter is something like this: My Auntie’s skirts are short and trim; They show her underpinning slim; And whenever blows a vagrant breeze, Isee my Auntie’s dimpled knees. So What’s the Use? He—But even without money our love would last. She—Yes, but we wouldn’t. A WuHoLe nickeL! ANp YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND IT oN CANDY! Now LISTEN, WOULDN'T The Impossible “Do you know where she stops when in the city?” “Oh, a gabbler like her may pause but she never stops!” Drawn by Pact Retuiy Vacationist—We.1, so LONG, oLp Tor! F) AR—TIRES, PAINT AND MECHANICALLY PERFECT, RUNS SIXTY-THREE MILES ON A GALLON OF GAS, My DEAR CHILD, THINK IT OVER! Not Always THE Japanese patient asked for chop suey. He had typhoid fever, but his case was hopeless so the doctor allowed him to eat it—but he recovered. The doctor wrote in his note book: “Chop suey is excellent in typhoid fever cases.” Shortly afterward, a motion-picture actor had typhoid fever and the doctor prescribed chop suey. The actor did not want it but he ate it, and—failed to recover. Then the doctor wrote in his note book: “Sometimes chop suey is good in typhoid fever cases, but sometimes it fails to register.” Thoughts Son (studying spelling lesson)—Dad, what is the difference between p-e-n-s- i-v-e and e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e? Father—One, my boy, is to think without acting, the other is to act with- out thinking. comicbooks.com