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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page from *Judge* magazine contains several satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century cultural attitudes: **"I Know a Girl"** ridicules a woman who confuses art terminology with food/health topics—mistaking Watteau (French painter) for British slang, rococo for a breakfast drink, and Rodin (sculptor) for rodents. The joke targets upper-class pretension: she loves "art" but understands nothing about it. References to Taft (President William Howard Taft) and Sargent (painter John Singer Sargent) suggest contemporary figures. **"The Eyes Have It"** satirizes dubious medical treatments—squirting milk into eyes as an eye-cure. The humor relies on the absurdity of quack medicine and the patient's naive faith in it. **"Auto-Types"** and the car cartoon mock early automobiles ("tin flivvers") and bandit getaway vehicles, reflecting contemporary crime concerns and the newfound mobility cars enabled. The overall tone mocks cultural ignorance, medical charlatanism, and modern anxieties about new technology.

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{ | I Know a Girl We thinks Watteau is a British expression and rococo a breakfast drink but she loves art. She says she thinks pictur interesting. She told me she both landscapes and seascapes, but is particularly partial to those powerful paintings of burning forests. them firescapes. I asked her if she liked Rodin. She replied that she couldn't stand mice of any kind, but what a funny question to ask at such a place with so many interesting things to talk about. She then told me her little brother was going to art school and his teachers said he did very well for six years old. When T mentioned Taft she said she wasn’t a bit interested in politics, She couldn't understand them and they bored her to death, She said her father was an ferman and that they were after him to run for mayor and that she just wished he would because then she'd have such fun. When I inquired her opinion of K Brancusi she said she'd never tasted it but her mother ate bran muffins every morning for breakfast and she couldn't stand them. SI ted to know was it some new sort of pudding. I questioned her about Sargent. She shuddered and said she hated to “I'd like one of those cars you sell bandits, please, The kind that’s always ready to speed away when you jump into it.” even think of the war and wasn’t it lucky that it was over so safely now. She added it had been fun but that she wished she was as old then as she is at present. She could have done so many more things and had so much better time. Carroll Funnybones Nowadays, it makes a big differ- { ence whose car is gored. \ Z \— Ghudge mill pay 85 for cach one printed Morner (trying to give a lesson)—Now, dear, what would happen if you broke one of the ten commandments? Cup (cheerful, but not very interested) —Then there'd be nine! ~ — ) The Eves Have It Wis Splugg rushed) inte my office, he was. half blind as usual, but intensely happy. He'd found a cure for his off eye. “Milk! “They shoot it into you. gurgled Splugg joyously. Dr. Goo- kin “Dr. Who-k “Dr. Gookin—the eclebr Though it really isn't his discovery, I under- ted gink from Vienna, Te can. stand. That is, Docens Lindner and Guist, along with a bunch of other docens—whatever docens are- “What ver mind,” T- said. happer “Well, they squirt you full of milk —and you either get well or you don’t Of course it can’t work If blindness had hit my other eye, Pd be gone. But get worse, miracles. already as it is, even if the ophthalmia is sympathetic—" “Well” T snorted, “Pm on think it’s all damn rot. Get out Sphigg was right though. He's gone—but not from ophthalmia. A thunderstorm eurdled, came up, and’ he Gardner Rea Auto-Types Tin flivvers are quite nunicrous, Tn country and in town; And some shak» cast, and some shake west, And some shake up and down. R..C. 0.