Judge, 1924-09-13 · page 14 of 72
Judge — September 13, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces mocking social behavior: **"The Deadly Feminine"** (top): A story about a woman who pursued a man romantically, he rejected her, she married another man, and later confronts her former suitor—boasting about her marriage. The satire targets women who use courtship as manipulation and men who fail to recognize romantic interest. **"Funnybones"** (middle): A joke about a woman with such poor singing ability that neighbors are raising funds to send her away to Europe—a backhanded insult presented as generosity. This satirizes both bad amateur singers and polite society's indirect methods of discouraging unwanted talent. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts a Sunday-school teacher emerging from a crowded elevator with his hands *not* in his own pockets—implying he was pickpocketing or groping passengers. The humor derives from the hypocrisy of a morality instructor behaving criminally, and the ironic "embarrassment" of being caught. All three pieces mock social pretense and behavioral hypocrisy.
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The Deadly Feminine SHE invited him to parties, dances, teas and everything that she properly could. Her eyes were very soft. She did her best to please him in every way. She led him through the moonlight and gave him all the chance in the world to tell her the old, old story. But he didn’t want her for a life partner, and so, of course, he didn’t tell her the story. But later on another fellow did, and she agreed to wed. And one y she chanced to meet on the street the chap she had haunted in the past and this, kind and gentle reader, is what she said to him: “Oh, Jimmy, didn't we used to have perfectly won-derful times lear George, when are you going to get out playing around together. You were of that habit of spealsing with your mouth full?” a dandy pal! But, oh, you don't ; . . know how different it seems to a Funnybones / “How's that Briggs girl getting on girl when she has met the one!” — with her sIDEINS: Nowadays it's the hard-boiled egg “Great! The neighbors are raising (isi they coll. themthewedber that brings home the bacon a fund to send her to Europe.” “Jove! I heard she couldn't sing at all!” “She can't!” sea! —~__ ~.__ Embarrassment of our Sunday-school teacher, upon emerging from a crowded elevator and finding he hadn't stuck his hands in his own pockets. comicbooks.com