Judge, 1923-03-17 · page 8 of 36
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# "Told at the 19th Hole" — Judge Magazine Satire This page contains humorous golf-club observations by Walter Trumbull alongside a satirical cartoon imagining an archaeological excavation 3,000 years in the future. **The quips** mock contemporary social attitudes: prohibitionists (timely given Prohibition's implementation), verbose golfers, and vain women. References to "mashie" and "niblick" signal golf-specific humor for the magazine's affluent readership. **The bottom cartoon** is the page's central satire. It depicts future archaeologists excavating 20th-century artifacts—an automobile, golf clubs, stockings, a movie theater—completely misinterpreting them as ancient religious or utilitarian objects. A "Ford" is labeled a "chariot"; golf clubs become "implements"; a movie theater becomes a "temple." **The joke**: This mocks contemporary materialism and consumer culture by imagining future scholars studying mundane modern objects with absurd reverence, suggesting our everyday possessions lack deeper meaning. It's also gentle satire on archaeological speculation itself.
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