Judge, 1922-09-09 · page 3 of 36
Judge — September 9, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine contains two distinct pieces: **Left column:** A humorous short story titled "Litany of the Festive Bored" satirizing tedious social conversation—complaints about weather, boring dinner guests, and repetitive small talk at parties. It's social satire about the monotony of upper-class social obligations. **Central illustration & right column:** "Villanelle of the Young Man's Lament"—a poem accompanying an illustration of a young man lounging in a hammock surrounded by leisure items (phonograph, beer, watch). The poem expresses ambivalence about romance and commitment, repeatedly stating "I must be good in every way." It's satirizing young men torn between desires for freedom/pleasure and social expectations of responsibility and morality. Both pieces mock early 20th-century social conventions and romantic expectations through humor and verse.
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= =" = PK. f fe ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” Litany of the Festive Bored by Cyril B. Egan Pio the Infinitesimal Portions the Bird’s Bath of Bouillon, the Ema ciated Trout, the Shriveled Squa the Dab of Lee Cream, the Lonely Macaroon, the Thimbleful of Cotfee—O Lord, Deliver Ue From Our Companions of the Junket the Silent Stranger on the Left, to make conversation with whom we must con tinually rack our brains to the ruination of our digestion; the Noisy Acquaintance: on the Right, who gaily asks us How We Are Doing, when he that we nows in his heart havent made more ‘Twenty-five ' JUDGE | WITH WHICH IS COMBINED LESLIE'S WEEKLY Finds Tt: the Speaker Ringing the Welk Speaker Who A a Small but Select Group Seated Around the the From All Speakers and Dinners and Diners From Every Banqueteering Abomina- tron Good Lord, Deliver Us! ae Son (reading) —Mom, mean by bated breath? Mother—Ask your father when he comes home from his next fishing trip. what do they Villanelle of the Young Man's Lament hy Leo Markum MUST 1 in every way, Or, at the least, must us I've just turned twenty-one t must I jest and play it isn’t fair, T must be good in every way. My love to Helen I may say When Little Brother isn’t the: Tye just turned twenty-one t jay. When Twas younger than Persince leay lege: the Bore A the Way who talks but) Banks and } Automob and Big Business; the ) Bore who — comes B from nowhere — in ) particular — dashes yen and menu eeking the phsof peopk about in h he never met before. and will | naught } and Bonds ' | hever meet i i] 0 Lord, Deliver Us! From the prandial Speakers the Speaker Who F Needs No Introdue- } tion; the } Who | Notes | Who Brings — His Speaker Who Finds Everyth Meant ready Speaker Who Is “Reminded”—: the Speaker Who Makes i Up for a vast; the sre Who Has gotten How to Sit’ “Down; the Speaker Who Has Lost His Peroration, and Ts Fully Deter- inined to Go on All Night’ Until He No home complete without one 1 T might bay At the moon, but now Edo not dare; T must be good in every way. T still am tempted to be vs But may [ kiss—on darkened stai Fve just turned twenty-one — to- day. A breach of promise suit would weigh Me down to. hope: less black despair; I must be 1 every way, Tve just turned twenty-one to- day. HE was a little girl, and as they made their way in and out among the other couples she al- lowed her cheek to rest against his manly chest. “Oh, Bill! called out an irreverent youth as he sailed by. fa ace you your wateh.” Hollywood _ once, but now — Holly- woodn't.