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# Political Satire from Judge Magazine The main cartoon titled "As We Were Saying" satirizes fashion and social hypocrisy. It depicts three figures with prominent ears exposed, captioned "Rumored inference that naked ear is immodest." The joke targets the contradiction in 1920s fashion: as women's skirts lengthen (becoming more "modest"), their ears become visible through shorter hairstyles. The satire mocks society's arbitrary standards—it obsesses over hidden legs while now displaying ears, suggesting fashion "rules" are nonsensical and ever-changing. The accompanying text pieces mock American businessmen returning from Europe who now position themselves as experts on solving European problems through articles in popular magazines like the *Eagle* and *Banner*. Judge ridicules their self-importance: they're treated as "best minds" despite lacking genuine understanding, reflecting post-WWI American attitudes about foreign affairs and intellectual pretension.
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Rumored inference that naked ear is immodest As We Were Saying by Arthur H. Folwell Nature Study by W. E. Hill ORD passes from Paris that) ways would but add te the era of women’s ears must be shown feeling. Why shouldn't the trade label again. In paradoxical terms, its bottles in » British manner? must come out they are “Bootlegger to Congressman Pecksniff,” coming in. With lengthening skirts. to His Honor, Mr. Justice little is added to the bottom; with e: 5 r by Appointment once more on display, a trifle comes off The occasion is the top. Thus Fashion rules her sub-— ripe, if not rotten. if the flapper shows tte and prefers to keep her 4 N AMERICAN drug store has been Ld on in Moscow. If what we ployed. As sur s true about the number of stamps cars out in droves woul: necessary to mail one (1) Russian letter, inference that exhibition of the naked ear our heart bleeds for the druggist. jects. Of cour signs of revolt, ears hidden, st is immodest. sais sae Becta Glory and the Girl Putting Our Best Minds ors Foremost ‘ . YHERE is no excuse for ignorance; Eunulorm | all one need do is to read) the news- WIEN wars Would take u's heart by 1 steeni: papers, ot i i It thrilled her to her girlish soul. eruhinatiin, selecting only this ‘ “prominent” — home-comi She'd even with a bell-hop stroll, las'to:European In hopes that folks would think her pal Tisai ty ca At least a Major Gen—er—al. cnougy to sup At least a Maj at least one ding citizen abroad this summer “studying condition and now the men are beginning to come back. rally, the home paper prints their views as well as their pictures. Being successful men of business, they brought to. bear upon Europe's problems the keen, diag- down to the hazardly. but with dis- articles in) which sricans are interview y town bi port a 19.22 But now has come another day. Clarissa doesn’t feel that way. In uniform, she would not pal, Not even with a Gen—er—al, For fear her friends might take him for A bell-hop from the hotel door. : ve which sees cle: ane roots of things. Hence, these headlines I ISTILLERS in it Britain in the Bugle, the Eagle and the Banner: proud to label their bottles, Furnished to the House of Lor or “By Special Appointment to His Majesty, the That sort of thing Moxey Troustes at Bask or Evrove’s fas bison good for laugh in: America, Davicuumes, Gave Hexay E. but a change is pending. _ With politicians Hicsuveno and office-holders of all sorts winking hard at the 18th Amendment and its en- Rerurn or tHE Kronen TO Normaccy forcement act, an imitation of English Is Ausrria’s NEEb, Says Seru JENKS Work or Ciaros, Russia's Crome, Says Antuony J. Harpscrann.e It's as simple as that. For the next month or six weeks no one ean have the smallest. excuse for not understanding what's the matter with Europe, and how it ean be cured, AI Europe needed was a few “best minds” and this summer it got ‘em, Unfortunately, they have had to come home. But if anyone would do the poor, sick world a genuine service, he will send copies of the Bugle, the Eagle or the Banner, with the Jenks, Hicksfeed or : iews plainly marked, di i Lloyd George and to the even more distracted premiers of the Continent. Fue following » will not be printed in’ the Editor's Drawer of Harper's Magazine ae The Modern Summer Resort THINK it is ce tfulhere. Let's go down to the beach.” “Oh, but you can't go down to the beach. The shore front is all owned by the mulliona s colony, Well, let's take a walk across the That's the golf s of the Country Jh, but vou ean’t. course, and only me Cluba lowed the “Can't we walk anywhere?” “Yes, but the motorists hate to have us oads, They give us such black A, what—if TE may ask—do we do © sit-on the porch until the mos- quitoes drive us in.” rnd This Is No Fairy Tale \ THEN the wicked brother heard the witch, he dar Svery time I om my mouth?” grimly. words of Ldrop + witch repliec “From this time forth.” Whereat the wicked brother laughed tin, and louder than before. “Call you that a punishment?” he hickled. “1 Tcan stand many such. Hd dollar. not a gold do ribly. y jnivalent of a gold doll ver rubles at the prevailir shall rise in your thro: The wicked brother fell groveling to You spe in Rus me to death with your hi rey hands,” he besoug! chit her. ly finish will be less painful But the witch merely shricked her triumph. I drivers, ample of the and hh embalmers have or ized under strict union rules. All that is now needed is a1 stencil outfit, by which in cach instance the deceased may be stamped with the union label before burial. Jersey must have no “unfair” funerals.