Judge, 1922-02-11 · page 22 of 36
Judge — February 11, 1922 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine presents several short joke panels satirizing early 20th-century American life. The central illustration depicts a chaotic "public course" of Sunday activities—vehicles, leisure activities, and crowds—suggesting the emerging consumer culture and modernization of weekend recreation. The individual jokes mock contemporary social anxieties: a man's thoughtless gift of a noisy motorboat muffler to a neighbor's baby; class differences between a dirty vagrant and a refined woman; confusion between Western frontier mythology and urban reality (the "Westerner" shoots pool, not game); generational concerns about "fast Willie boys and jazz babies"; job interview clichés using animal metaphors; and the absurdity of a movie star offering her photograph instead of food to a starving person. The satire reflects anxieties about modernity, wealth disparity, and changing social values in the Jazz Age era.
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TO SUPPRESS THE SQUALLS! “How is it your next door neighbor isn’t speaking to you?” “Well, I took the muffler from my motor-boat and told him it was a pres- ent for the baby!” COMPLIMENTARY “Good heavens! You are the dirt- iest, worst looking man I have ever seen!” “Thankee, lady; but I can’t live on compliments.” EXPLAINED } Woman—You say you met } my father on the field of Get- ) tysburg? ¥ Tramp—Yessum. He was = running a sight-seeing bus, and I was selling sandwiches. SS t POLICE! The Easterner—So you are from the West, eh? Have you shot anything lately? The Westerner—I_ should say so, pard; three games of pool this afternoon. ON Sunday eniienad’ ei these fast Willie boys and jazz babies.” By Shanks “The future will attend to them. But think of SS the things they’ll have to face in their own chil- THE KIND “What kind of a man do you want for this job?” “One who was a bear in the past, who will be a bull for the future, and a horse to work.” FIRST AID “Man at the door, miss, claims he is starving.” “Poor fellow!” said the tender- hearted movie queen. “Give him one of my photographs.” oS eg ee comicbooks.com