Judge, 1921-12-03 · page 32 of 36
Judge — December 3, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains multiple unrelated humor pieces and advertisements typical of early 20th-century American magazines. **Main Cartoon:** The bottom illustration depicts a business negotiation where a man proposes a partnership to another, but then awkwardly suggests the proposer's daughter marry him instead of becoming a clerk. The satire targets social climbing and mercenary marriage—suggesting that gaining family connections through marriage is preferable to honest business partnership. **Humor Pieces:** The scattered jokes mock predictable social behaviors: a woman collecting "duplicate" wedding gifts, industrial working conditions affecting home life, and Americans' supposed excessive drinking habits ("championship of everything...thirst"). **Poetry ("The Modern Buccaneer"):** This mocks Prohibition-era smugglers, contrasting romanticized pirates with contemporary criminals operating near the "Volstead shore" (reference to Prohibition legislation) with "gold-lined craft." **Advertisements:** The page is dominated by ads for firearms, mail-order revolvers, and non-alcoholic extracts—the latter humorously sold as ingredients "to make...full quart of...liqueur," clearly circumventing Prohibition's spirit.
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