Judge, 1923-08-11 · page 7 of 36
Judge — August 11, 1923 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three unrelated satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine humor: **Top cartoons**: Three caricatured faces illustrate exaggerated facial expressions—"skoopterosis" (chronic drooping), "Airedale expression of the eyes" (a dog-like stare), and crying. The humor relies on physiognomy, a popular (if pseudoscientific) form of period satire. **"Clam Shortcake"**: A absurdist recipe satirizing pretentious food culture. The joke involves the absurd difficulty of preparing clams, creating a nonsensical dish. **"Snooze to Me"**: A humorous essay celebrating the Sunday afternoon nap as modern life's greatest achievement, mocking both leisure culture and newspaper reading. The satire suggests people pretend to read newspapers while napping to hide laziness from family. The page represents Judge's accessible, everyday humor rather than pointed political satire, focused on domestic life and social manners.
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Have everybody burst- ing into tears over you. A chronic case of skoopterosis. The Airedale expression of the eyes. Clam Shortcake ventions. for th humble, For downright merit it surpasses any other plan dvancement of home comforts. [tis lowly and and, occasionally, quite noisy, but it presumably boasts more users to the square mile than any other form of AKE some shorteake—about an inch and seven cighths. Get a couple « wen alien clams. Shoo them all into the locker room and make them peel off their turtleneck sweaters. Show them how to cross their arms in front of them, grasping the cdge of the sweater and pulling it over the 1 Then hustle them out into Myrtle avenue and let the law take its course as regards nakedness. lead and second-hand cari soap grated over a hurriedly. Roll the sweaters in sugar of ay seeds, Add a cake of laundry cupful of canned apricots. Serve “Snooze to Me” by Chet Shafer Ik THE line of entertainment, the brilliant thinkers of the present epoch have been unable to devise anything more consoling than the Sunday afternoon nap. It unquestionably represents the proudest achievement of an age of useful in- pleasure. The Sund + afternoon nap can be negotiated any time. It may be « sin a supine position, but’ the leading votaries © it while in the prevailing posture of a dummy as a No Trump bid is being ed. In this position the fan uses a small section of the Sunday paper, § keep his intention secret from. the relatives. about ten pounds, to mmediate friends and He gets the focus on a current: event of some magni- tude and ostensibly devours it with avid interest. But before he reaches the end of the first paragraph that particular bit of news might just as well never have happened as far as he is concerned. ‘The paper gently collapses until it rests cn his nose. His head lolls back, his chin drops and his mouth flies open. And he is wafted away on the soft wings of a smooth snooze. He is then very unbeautiful but very comfortable (Continued on page 9) comicbooks.com