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Judge — July 12, 1924 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Cartoon Analysis: Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon - "The Wrecked Flivver":** A man tells his cook that he's destroyed the family car (a "flivver"—slang for a cheap automobile, likely a Model T Ford), then casually says she can deduct it from her wages. The satire targets employers' casual exploitation of working-class servants, treating significant property damage as merely a payroll deduction. It's darkly humorous about class relations and wage abuse. **Text Content:** The page includes humorous instructional pieces: "How to Carve a Chicken" (satirizing domestic dining etiquette disasters) and "Main Street" (listing immigrant and ethnic business owners with stereotypical names suggesting ethnic diversity in American towns). "Mangled Mythology" offers light verse about Greek mythological figures adapted to modern (early 20th-century) life—mostly wordplay without sharp political edge. The overall tone reflects early-20th-century satirical humor targeting domestic life, class dynamics, and assimilating immigrant communities.
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Boss (to cook)—Good night! You've wrecked the family flivver! “Oh, well, ye can can take it outa my next week’s wages!” How to Carve a Chicken Rost chicken has been the Waterloo of many men. This suggestion is offered solely that our suicide statisties may be reduced. When the guests have been s the chicken placed before y your knife and fork in your right and left hands respectively and rise as un- s possible. You will be ed and grasp conspicuous enough anyway. Thrust the fork into the side of the fowl and give it a quick whirl to the left. This often di: the bird and reduces its vitality so the resistance becomes perfunctory First try to cut off the leg at the thigh. You may not know where the thigh is but the guests will point it out to you. You can take a breathing spell here while you retire to sharpen the carving knife. Of course r wife has done it, but what of it? Returning to the table and lifting your napkin from the gravy boat, you seize the fork in your fist and jab it into the side of the chicken opposite you. While the guest to your right holds the dish and the guest to your left runs for cover, rip into the leg with the knife and without a pause, grasp the leg and detach it from the body with a quick jerk. There won't be room for it on the platter, so lay it on your chair behind you. Now don’t get cocky; you're only beginning. Slice off the breast. After two slices you'll be down to the ribs so start on the other side. When the platter looks like the scene of a grade ident, dish the stuff out as impartially as possible. You will run out of chicken just as you get to your plate but that is one of the handicaps crossing d of having company for dinner. It will presently occur to you that one of the legs is missing, but you will di cover this when you sit down, Next time, tell your wife to cut up the stuff in the kitchen. J.C. E. Main Street A restaurant, run by Nick Dardenel- loupos. A shoe repair Guiseppe Angelini. A dry goods emporium, owned by Moses Ikeinstein. A beauty parlor, presided over by Madame Qui Vive. A cigar store, proprietor, José Gomez. A bootblack stand, managed by George Washington Stonewall Jackson Williams. shop, operated by 6 Mangled Mythology T= Centaur would be just the thing A runaway to stop; ‘To-day he'd make, and no mistake, A dandy mounted cop. Old Argus in the baseball field Would simply be a peach; Should three men be on bases, he Could keep an eye on each. Mercury would be up to date And flying records b He'd show us how to aviate, And get there with both feet. Of all the least, Diogenes Is needed least again; “Tis plain to see that he would be A failure now as then. Medusa also might be classed With up-to-date young maids; She never had a boyish bob, But snakes she wore for braids. Disguise? “When we get to Niag try not to look as though we married.” “Good idea, darling. suitcase, eh?” dear, let's ve just been You carry the comicbooks.com