Judge, 1924-06-14 · page 11 of 37
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# "The Coward" and Related Content **The Main Cartoon**: Shows a woman viewing caged lions/large cats through a window. The title suggests irony—the woman, not the animals, represents cowardice (she won't approach them). **The Surrounding Text**: A lengthy satirical story mocking pseudo-scientific Victorian prose. It describes a romantic encounter between Philip and a girl in absurdly technical language, citing real scientists (Darwin, Huxley, Michael Foster) to explain ordinary human gestures—blushing, hand-holding, kissing—as if they were complex biological phenomena. The humor lies in the contrast between flowery romance and overwrought scientific jargon. **The Shorter Pieces**: Two brief humorous exchanges: - "Men Worth While" jokes about cigarette advertising warnings - "Stationary Scandal" makes a joke about women gossiping when isolated The overall page satirizes both sentimental Victorian romance writing and the era's tendency to justify everything through pseudo-scientific authority, treating simple human emotion as medical mystery.
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AL the sight of Philip the subcutaneous pigmentation of the girl's face underwent an intensifi ting of the young m: Iso a temporary inf tion of the tissues of hi They met, and their hands instinctively clasped, by an interadjustment of the bones known only in mankind and the higher apes but not seen in the dog. ation, At the same time s heart produced in his coun- mmation due to an underoxy- For a moment the two lovers, for such their physiological symptoms, though in themselves not dangerous provided a proper treatment. were applied without delay, proclaimed them, were unable to find words. (see Barker on the Nervous $ bolism of the brain but rather a peculiar condition of the mucous membrane of the lip, not in itself serious. Philip found words f He naturally would, owing to the fact that in the male, as Darwin first noticed, the control of the nerve ganglions is more rigid than in the female. “Lam so glad you've come,” he said. The words were simple (indeed he could hardly have made them simpler unless by inserting the preposition “that” and restoring the auxiliary from its abbreviated form). But simple as they were, they thrilled the young girl to the heart--obviously by setting up the form of nerve disturbance which Huxley has so admirably described in his discussion of the effect of external stimuli on This, however, did not indicate m) an inhibition of the meta- the decomposition of food “L couldn't stay’: The text here i refers to some inhibition in her feet, involving an inability to * she murmured. a little perplexing. No doubt the girl use the great toe. It is an obscure malady and Sir William Osler inclined to aseribe it to excessive alcoholism. But. she ave had it. Unfortunately the current of the romance moves on too fast to allow investigation, The Coward. Philip reached out and drew the girl towards him. “Then your answer is yes,” he cried, jubilantly. ‘To do this he inhaled deeply and then ejected the entire contents of his hings with a sudden impetus. In the dog this produces barking. (See Sir Michael Foster on Animal Phrenology.) “Tt is!” she murmured. Philip drew the girl's form towards him till he had it close to his own form, and parallel to it, both remaining perpendicu- ud then bending the upper vertebrie of his spinal column rds and sideways he introduced his face into a close prox- imity with hers. In this attitude, difficult to sustain for a prolonged period, he brought his upper and lower lips together, protruded them forward, and placed them softly against hers forw: in a movement scen also in the ourangoutan but never in the hippopotamus. And with this kiss the affianced lovers wandered back hand in hand up the lane, the bird upon the bough s Dlithely than ever—owing possibly to the incre of its diaphragm. STEF Men Worth While “Do you know what becomes of boys who smoke cigar- ed the kind old lady. replied the hoy.“ Ain't them big cigarette advertisements? ng more sed distention gn Leacock. you never seen any of Stationary Scandal Editor—In your story the two women are marooned on the island and both go ins But you neglected to say what caused them to go insane. Author—Why, insane hecanse they had no one to tell it to. would know that. They went found out a lot about each other and every one comicbooks.com