Judge, 1922-09-16 · page 6 of 36
Judge — September 16, 1922 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon, titled "A Diamond in 'The Rough,'" depicts three children engaged in roughhousing near a tree. The accompanying text jokes about working-class behavior and social pretensions. The bottom section contains three separate comic anecdotes: 1. A conversation between a Station Agent and a traveling salesman about a missed train and lost poker winnings 2. "How'ja Get That Way?" - commentary on young men wearing monocles, suggesting they ape upper-class affectations while wearing identical trousers 3. A brief dialogue about someone named Betty's father rejecting a suitor, apparently due to financial circumstances The satire targets working and middle-class attempts at mimicking wealthy mannerisms and the economic anxieties underlying social mobility in early 20th-century America.
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Station miss train? Belated Trate Traveling Salesman—No, but I'll miss it now that it is gone! sae Agent—Did you your “T had a wonderful poker hand last night.” ean up any money on it?” >—we were playing rummy.” A Diamond in “The Rough” Howja Get That Way? by J. B. Sprague HE chaps who wear beeveedees all the but they're not. They merely have taken their cue from the hound; His pants are the same, be it frigid or hot! 4 gratulations! Mr. Voteget- lected by a large majority! jan—Curses! Then I spent more y than I needed to! Rael “So Betty's father rejected you?” “Indirectly. He said he hated to all his money to an asylum of any sort but he guessed he could.”