Judge, 1923-06-30 · page 4 of 37
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The top cartoon illustrates a divorce proceeding joke. Two bald men in formal dress dine together while others converse in the background. The caption reads: "Why is he suing his wife for divorce?" Answer: "Because she concealed a miniature broadcasting instrument in his inside coat pocket." This satirizes the emerging technology of radio broadcasting in the early 20th century. The joke plays on anxieties about new communication devices enabling surveillance or eavesdropping—a wife secretly recording her husband's conversations. The humor derives from the absurdity of hiding broadcasting equipment in clothing and the marital discord such deception might cause. Below are two unrelated short stories: "Nemesis" by Harvey E. Yantis and "Her Opinion" by H. M. Thomas, typical serialized fiction found in Judge magazine.
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Drawn by Gitwert WILKINSON Nemesis by Harvey E. Yantis Jivtan Prescott was no gentleman; he was a cad. More, he was an egotistical cad, which is the worst, and probably the most common variety. He had alw so much the gentle- man, how scople seldom asked “Is he a gentler * ~~ Handsome and debonair he was, with an attractive line of small talk. He had never loved but lightly. Many were the feminine hearts he had con- quered, and he intended to conquer as many more. Worse, he bragged of his affairs, telling of the manner he rid himself of a love when a new lure was presented. He had given Florence a rush for almost six months—ages for him. Her birthday was less than two weeks away, he remem- bered with a start, for it w incidence that both her birthday and his were the same. That would mean an expe! present, and expensive presents were distasteful to him. He could drop her now, and pick up another later. That girl he had met at the Duncan’s dance for instance. Vivian found stationery and pen, and wrote: It hurts me to give you pain, My FLORENCE: but I cannot go on in this futile fashion. “Why is he suing his wife for divorce?” _ “Because she concealed a miniature broadcasting instrument in his inside coat pocket.” Time passed, but Vivian had heard nothing from Florence. He was musing on this fact, which piqued him, when a knock sounded on his door, and a maid presented him with a package. Vivian's conceit reasserted itself, for the address was in Florence's writing. This was his birthday! She had sent him a present! Trying to win him back! He tore off the wrappings and plunged his hands through a mass of tissue paper. At last he reached the object, and the world reeled. It was a miniature dumb-bell. The attached card was inscribed: “The one before the last, my dear, hurt so much more than you.” love for you has turned to kindness, It_is but one of the passions of the past. My lies to you, sweet as they were once, sound false and dull to me now. My: heart has alw been restless, like a scrap of paper biown by the winds, and T must find new fields. I know that your heart is bleeding, but this, Flo, is good-by. v .” Vivian said with a smile, as he rose, “will do for her. _ I believe T can make any girl love me,” he said. oer Her Opinion by Ida M. Thomas Met, and the very next day,” said Luci “He took me to ride in his automobile, And before we had gone many miles,” said she, “The man had actually proposed to me. Now what do you think of such a pro- ling?” Her friend replied: “I was speeding.” should say “Sis, what does ‘chaperon’ mean?” “It isn’t used any more, dearest.”