Judge, 1921-09-17 · page 12 of 36
Judge — September 17, 1921 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **Top cartoon:** A lawyer defends a pickpocket by claiming the victim won't press charges because he won't "handle the case"—a crude pun on the pickpocket's profession. **"I Love to Dance, But"**: Hysell's humorous essay catalogs annoyances with various dance partners—tall ones, short ones, fat ones, middle-aged ones, etc. It's social satire mocking the forced politeness of ballroom dancing and the variety of disagreeable partners one must endure despite enjoying the activity itself. **"King Cole Legislated"**: A parody of the nursery rhyme applying it to reformers. It satirizes Progressive Era reform movements as repetitive and numerous, suggesting reformers are producing endless "blue laws" (morality legislation) in tiresome fashion. **Other brief humorous items** include jokes about miscommunication between mother and daughter ("the smack" being mistaken for physical contact), and a vaudeville heckler complaint. The overall tone reflects pre-WWI American satire targeting dance culture, reform politics, and social awkwardness.
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Drawn by G. B, INwoon, Lawyer (defending pickpocket) WATCH | WON'T HANDLE YOUR CASE! I Love to Dance, But By HELEN HYSELL. | HATE: e . tall partners who lift me off my feet and pull my gown up in the back. And short partners who*seem always ubout to rest their chins upoh my shoulder. fat partners to whom’ dancing is but another reducing exerce and uround whose protuding stomachs | must skip at each turn*® middle-aged partners whose loose-lipped miouths hover close to my wheezing vapid compliments and uttering commonplaces. imagined specialists in the dance who offer und keep me guessing as to what we do next, And those less confident ones whose dancing is monotdny. partners*’’who dan@e silently, only a littlé less than those who talk much, and those who sing or whistle out of key. perfumed partners; those whose breaths smell of the contents of the pocket-flask ; chew cloves or eat garlic-scented foods. handsome partners who think al- ways of their audience, and homely who are self-conscious, and those of average appearance who frankly like to dance but have never quite learned the steps. partners of any size, shape, age or appearance who take secret liber- but an ex- ear, to teach me new steps too and those who ones ties, whose dancing cuse for stolen caresses. 1 hate ’em all and yet I love to dance! True Economy “You have often asked me to give and at last I've done it.” “LT came down on a surface car.” “That was sensible.” “Capital fellow, the conductor. 1 tipped him half a dollar.” SEE MERE! IF YOU DON’T STOP TRYING'TO GET AT MY When the Lights Are Low “What was that gob up to, daugh- ter?” Vhy—er—mother, he was just trying to explain the difference ‘be- tween a sloop and a sniack.” “Yes, I heard the smack.” by Dove.as G2ant Vaudeville Fan (to performer) SELECTION OVER FOR A FEW OF US UP HERE? Drawn King Cole Legislated By BaTTELL Loomis LD KING COLE is a dismal re- incarnate, And a dismal reincarnate is he; He calls for his cubebs He calls for his milk-shake And he calls for his reformers three. Every reformer has a very fine blue- law, And a very fine bluelaw has he; Twee tweedle dee tweedle dee, Go the reformers. Oh, there’s none half-baked But has bellyached With King Cole and his reformers three. These Days He—You want me to meet your cousin at the station; but how am I going to know who she is? She—Oh, that will be easy! She is wearing a corset cover embroid- ered with blue butterflies. - XK DOUWLAS Gran -PARDON ME, RUT WOULD YOU MIND PLAYING THAT LAST YOU HAD rotten COMPETITION JUST BBHIND ME! comicbooks.com