Judge, 1923-12-08 · page 7 of 36
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# "The Fall of Eve" - Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis This page contains three separate pieces. The main cartoon, titled "The Fall of Eve," depicts a woman in a large black hat and dress surrounded by falling apples—a visual pun on the Biblical Fall of Adam and Eve. The joke appears to satirize women's fashion, specifically the oversized hats popular in the early 20th century, by literalizing the phrase "fall of Eve" through both the woman's precarious posture and the tumbling fruit. The accompanying text pieces are humorous essays: one about hat shop efficiency (proposing a conveyor system for trying on hats), another about the post-Thanksgiving food coma, and one mocking a film industry conference where producers admit they can't improve their films because nobody in attendance knows how. Together, these pieces represent Judge magazine's typical satirical approach: combining visual wordplay with gentle social commentary on contemporary consumer culture and industrial practices.
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Efficiency in a Hat Shop by Edmund J. Kiefer I’ T ever go in the millinery business, Iam going in, too, for efficiency. "What is ation to-day? A woman comes in to buy one hat and she tries on a hundred. This must 5 figure out heavily in the overhead. I am for saving time and energy and patience of clerks by installing a hat carrier, a moving train of trays of hats, passing directly between milady and the mirror and all around the shop. Patent applied for. This service can accommo number of people at one time. All mil to do is to seat herself and reach for whatever hat happens to be passing, and try it.on. When she has inspected it. to her heart's content, she can place it back in the tray train and try another sample of the rolling stock. In this way a customer can try on the maximum of hats in the minimum of time. At a demonstration it was found that the average woman tries on sixty-six and two-third hats an hour. The idea for my invention was sugge to me recently when, somewhat pressed time, companied a certain young lady on one of these hat shop. pilgrimages. Maybe what I get for this invention will make up for what the hat finally purchased cost me. I'll admit it was one in a thousand. tas The National Holy Day By CBOE HANKSGIVING afternoon! A ho! m pervades the house: I move as in a swoon I step as quict as a mouse; With sweet sabbatical repose, I go about on tips of toes Thanksgiving afternoon. . O holy hush! O solemn swoon! To cut the calm, there is no sound, Save for the breathing of Who bloated lies upon the ground The pleasant purring of a cat, Who sated sits upon the mat And here and there, From boudoir and from den, Every now and then A snore... Or The popping of a button From the tummy of a glutton. Only these, and nothing more. a hound, Thanksgiving afternoon O pious peace! O sacred swoon! Although P'm in an awful rush, I must not dent this holy hush, This sweet sabbatical repose. But I will step with tips of toes, And move about the silent house As quiet as a chapel mouse. Golly, the meal we ate was great Where is the suda bicarbonate? The fall of Eve, eee Balked hy Hl. Hovious Rafferty Tt puptic demanded better films. A conference open to the public was called by the film “My friends.” the chairman) announced, “the producers to see what could be done. meeting will now stand adjourned. The chairman anxiously inquired: “Are there any It is uscless to continue. as none of the persons persons in the house who are not in the film business?” who know how to make better films is present.” » one answered. comicbooks.com