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# Judge Magazine, July 5, 1923: Social Commentary This page combines humor columns with a satirical cartoon about automobiles and their dangers. The main illustration depicts an old-fashioned car hitting a pedestrian, with the ex-barber's punchline: "Shall I go over the face again, sir?"—a dark joke equating the car's repeated impacts to a barber's razor strokes. The text columns mock various social pretensions: borrowing money without repaying it, devoting one's life to women (deemed less noble than philosophy), and travel fashion trends. References to "Lord Tennyson" and philosophical discussion suggest the magazine targeted educated, middle-class readers. The overall tone satirizes modern anxieties about automobiles (still relatively new in 1923), alongside timeless human follies like vanity and financial irresponsibility.
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