Judge, 1924-05-10 · page 5 of 36
Judge — May 10, 1924 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The page contains several satirical vignettes typical of early 20th-century humor magazines: **Top cartoon**: Children playing with a skeleton, captioned about modern children being "sophisticated." The joke satirizes parental anxiety about children losing innocence—finding kids casually playing with a family skeleton would horrify Victorian sensibilities. **Bottom cartoon**: Captioned "Mrs. Aesop (to her husband)—Where were you until this hour? Now—none of your fables!" This references Aesop, the classical fabulist, using marital infidelity humor. The wife confronts her husband about his whereabouts, sardonically dismissing his excuses as mere "fables" (lies). Both cartoons employ visual irony and wordplay typical of Judge's satirical style, mocking contemporary domestic life and social pretensions.
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6,000,000 REALTY TAKEN FOR BRIDGE—Commission Condemns 219 Properties Including Church and Two Cemeteries—OCCUPANTS ARE NOTI- FIED.—Headline in Philadelphia Bulle- tin Did the Angel Gabriel help? sas Official Weather Forecast: IbGenerally fair to-day, except. possibly rain. —Dhe New York World At last the weather man has hit upon a safe prediction Sas She—We went over the moun- tains eighty-five miles an hour. ighty-five miles an hour!” “Yes, five going up and eighty coming down.” sae If your lip is inclined to curl, watch out for the permanent wave! sae There was a young man and he thought and he thought To answer this question he sought and he sought: “Why don’t they make napkins of red, all of red To match the lip-stick of the deb who has fed?” LEE Nowe © Mrs. Aesop (to her husband)—Where were you until this hour? Now—none of your fables! Talk about the children of to-day being sophisticated. Why, only yesterday I found my two up in the nursery playing with the family skeleton. A Hint to PuBLIsHERS ie VIEW oF the amalgamating tendencies of modern metro- politan newspapers one may expect most of our great periodicals to consolidate in the near future in the interests of efficiency and public service. Some of the most probable and appropriate combinations are to be found in the following list, which is compiled in the modest hope that enterprising publishers will not be slow to profit thereby: The Atlantic Monthly to be amal- gamated with Snappy Stories, The Bookman with The Woman's Home Companion, The Psychological Review with True Romances, The Nation with The Wall Street Journal, The American Mercury with Jin Jam Jems, The Yale Review with The Weekly Carpenter, System with The Appeal to Reason. The New York Times with the Hackensack Gazette, to be published henceforth at Hackensack, and known as the New York-Hacken- sack Times-Gazette.