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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (1924) This page contains satirical commentary on 1920s domestic life through two sections: **"The Home Beautiful for 1924"** mocks absurd architectural designs supposedly aimed at modern housewives. The satire targets efficiency-obsessed home design trends by describing logically impossible features: a cellar relocated to the roof, stairs reduced by half while covering the same distance, and windows painted black for "privacy." The humor derives from treating ridiculous propositions with serious architectural language, poking fun at contemporary modernism's sometimes impractical obsession with convenience. **The illustration and "Rondeau" poem** depict romantic/domestic misadventures. One cartoon shows a young man explaining a black eye from pursuing a woman ("cast myself at a maiden's feet"), only to learn she was "clubfooted"—dark humor typical of 1920s comedy. The poem describes a man repeatedly fooled by women, culminating in marriage as the ultimate deception. Overall, the page satirizes both pretentious modern design trends and romantic mishaps in contemporary courtship culture.
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The Home Beautiful for 1924 1 Mopvern Risqui: Type: In_ this * compact style of house, comfort is never sacrificed for beauty. For instance, the cellar is placed on top of the top story, just under the roof, instead of bet h the lower floor, and the attic, which used to be where the is by the new scheme, is where the cellar used to be by the old scheme before it was moved up to where the attic used to be before the position of the cellar was changed. ‘This new arrangement makes it possible to walk downstairs after tend- ing the furnace. Other helps to the weary housewife inchide a staircase with only half as many steps for the same distance, neces- sitating just half as many steps; a front door which will open cither in or out, depending on whether you want to go out or in; and an automatic safety folding bed, which has its four legs bolted to the floor. 2. Parcheesi Model: An artistic tri- umph, with a porch that runs completely around the house so that it is absolutely : impossible for baby to fall off. AIL the d) &) windowpanes are covered with a thick qe +00" Tavior coat of black enamel on the outside, thus insuring absolute privacy from peeping Drawn by LS. MicHaet, Penn State ‘25, Hunch by H. BP. ‘Vayior, Penn State '26. trespassers. Unsightly ‘lines are done away with partially by having the chimney, instead of going through the Egbert—Tell me, Fauntleroy, whence cometh thy discolored optic? Fauntleroy—Ah, Egbert, I did but cast myself roof, run around it. at a maiden’s feet. 3. Mid-ficld Period: Just. the home “But your eye, Fauntleroy, your eye?” : MEDS | Seiies een an “Alas, Egbert, the damsel was clubfooted.” for the young married couple of to-day. Thedoghouse isfitted out with Phasni Grivco tapestries, jan and a biscuit: belt-con { —_—— — veyor runs underground to the main kit- chen. ‘The parlor is converted into a bedroom by closing the blinds, and the kitchen is tucked neatly away in a corner of the dining-room.—Carl Shoup, Stan- ford, 24. Rondeau [ 1129 been fooled by girls before And thought that I'd be fooled no more, T thought that I had learned my stuff By past adventures long and rough, By hard experience of yore. On many a ball and party floor, T heard the line T once fell for And skilfully T called the bluff. (I had been fooled.) But here’s the thing 1] Immunity became T got me married. It was tough To learn at last that, sure enough, For all my wisdom’s hoarded store, ut_gets me sore: bore— I had been fooled. L. S. Micuar., Penn State H.S. Talbot, Dartmouth, * Love sends a little gift of roses. Maybe! 9 comicbooks.com