Judge, 1924-06-28 · page 5 of 37
Judge — June 28, 1924 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several distinct pieces of humor: **"I May Be Peculiar"** (top left): A poem by Alice Deer Miller expressing mild dissatisfaction despite cheerfulness—satirizing the tension between inner feelings and social obligation to appear content. **"Executive Ability"** (top right): Mocks corporate efficiency by describing an executive's packed schedule of leisure activities (golf, telephone calls, lunch)—satirizing how "busy" businessmen actually spend their time on personal pursuits rather than work. **"Another Specialist"** (middle): A brief joke about vice-presidents, suggesting corporate hierarchy creates redundant positions. **Bottom cartoon**: Two fishermen discuss a massive catch described as a "wife"—a crude joke playing on old tropes about wives as burdensome catches or prizes, reflecting early 20th-century misogynistic humor common in satirical magazines. The page reflects period attitudes toward work, ambition, and gender roles.
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I May Be Peculiar T= day is not so very fine, The air is damp and. scarcely snappy, And yet, though why T can’t define, I feel inordinately’ happy. My conscience is not wholly My bank account is simply f And yet T radiate good cheer, And am in fact extremely cheerful. The incidents of every day, So commonplace and nugatory, Become in some delightful way A poem—an O. Henry story. And conversations I begin. Both heart-to-heart and hasty hello, Are simply saturated in An atmosphere humane and mellow. ‘To-morrow though the sun may shine, And Fate herself be friendly to me, An interesting nature mine) I may be strangely gruff and gloomy. Auice Durr MILLer. Another Specialist vice-president down you in charge of? AW} . “What do you think of your new little sister, darling?” “Well, she’s sure a dandy ad f'r pyorrhoea!” Consolation “We rebuild our cities every thirty years,” boasted the American, Vell, old top,” replied the visiting Englishman sympathetically, “you can’t expect to get them right the first time, you know.” BN aly SAN First Fisherman—I heard you landed a wife, Ezry. “Sure did! ounce!” Executive Ability XECUTIVE ability is that quality which permits a man to dash into his office at nine-forty-five after an exhausting ride in the club car; put in two telephone calls to arrange for a two-hour hincheon engagement at twelve and a golf foursome at his country club at four-thirty; and then call his secretary and dictate the following inter-office memo (on the PINK form please) To All Dept. Heads vase call to the attention of all members riment at once that the hours in e are from nine to five. Loyalty to nization demands that our employees maintain these hours. Nothing so well marks the ambi us the practice jous man, a nd not leaving of being at the desk until the work is Continued hours on the 1 of the office any of our employees can only result in drastic changes in our per- sonnel The above also applies to returning late from lunch JEEVES, Mur. tot Mose—G'wan, yo" boastin’ boy! W yo" fine job now? Ah heard yo" was fired fum de FPust National Bank. Sam—Mebbe. But Ah chooses to say Ah was promoted. Ah is now jaintin’ fo’ de Second National Bank. She’s a beauty—about twenty feet long, and weighs two hundred pounds if she weighs comicbooks.com