Judge, 1922-01-14 · page 28 of 36
Judge — January 14, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **satirical humor pieces and cartoons** reflecting early 20th-century American social anxieties: **Top section**: A comic narrative about selling an unwanted dog—the joke being the dog's inevitable return home, mocking both the seller's optimism and the dog's loyalty. **"Ideas and Reflections"**: Light social commentary on shop windows and human behavior—how they reveal fashion, needs, vanity, and social performance. **"Backhand Blow"**: Dark satire about an auto-accident victim whose life insurance lapsed so he could afford the car that killed him—critiquing the emerging automobile culture and financial irresponsibility. **"Luck"**: A quip about pessimism being so powerful it reverses fortune itself. **Bottom section titled "Mouseville Industrial Show"**: Anthropomorphic mice in inventive portable houses (the "Limburger," "Snappy," "Swiss," "Rocquefort," "Camembert")—a playful parody of the contemporary housing industry's marketing of prefabricated "ready-made" homes, using cheese names as puns on mouse culture. The overall theme satirizes modern consumer culture, automobile adoption, and industrial mass production.
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Drawn by F. VERBECK. “T’ve sold this pup to a feller over to Poppletown. Take him over, and be sure the man ties him up or he will follow you home again.” town. Ideas and Reflections By Marie Ellyson we. love shop-windows They show us the styles. i They show us what we shouldn’t wear. They show us some things we need. They show us reductions after we buy. They show us ourselves. They show us how to pose. They also show us who’s looking at us. BACKHAND BLOW “Rather sad about that friend of yours who was killed in an auto acci- dent.” “Very. He allowed his life insur- ance policy to lapse in order to have i enough money to buy the car.” JONAH TAKES A BULL-PUP TO A Dog — 1 haven’t slightest notion that I’ll care to live in Popple- the of him. Dog—There’s no sense in treating a dog like a dog. LUCK “Queer he should have so much luck when he’s so much of a wet blanket.” “Luck? Why, say, if that fellow should jump from the frying pan into the fire he’d put the fire out.” Drawn by HARVEY PEAKE. Here is another animal that is so highly educated that it can spell the species to which it belongs! 2h FELLER OVER TO POPPLETOWN “Mr. Jim Hickey, here’s your dog; take good care “If I had a gun Vd shoot this bench-legged beast.” “If you're in a hurry, I’mnot. I'ma Britisher.” Dog—There’s no place like home. BUT THEY CARRY MORTGAGES “Even the poor no longer carry bundles.” “Of course not! right in their autos.” They take them FAMILIAR WITH ITS VALUE “Do you suppose Duggan’s car was stolen by some one in the neighbor- hood?” “No; a stranger took it. Every per- son in the county knew the machine.” QUITE APPROPRIATE Young Mother—John, for goodness sake, take that knife out of baby’s mouth. Young Father—Oh, that’s all right, my dear. He's cutting teeth. “on The SNAPPY” (ANOCKDOWN ) The Mouseville Industrial Show of Ready-Cat Houses comicbooks.com