Judge, 1924-11-01 · page 31 of 36
Judge — November 1, 1924 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **two distinct elements**: a book review (left) and a **Red Cross recruitment advertisement** (right). **The Advertisement's Context:** The large right panel is a World War I-era recruitment ad for the American Red Cross. The woman holding a cross and what appears to be medical supplies represents the Red Cross nurse—a symbol of humanitarian service during wartime. The phrase "Join now!" and "Serves Humanity" are direct calls to patriotic action and charitable donation, common during WWI when the Red Cross mobilized for medical aid. **The Joke Below:** The crossword puzzle advertisement puns on this urgency, claiming that Judge's next crossword will tackle "a burning issue of the day" in puzzle form. This is gentle satire—treating a puzzle as equally important to actual humanitarian concerns, mocking both the exaggerated gravity of magazine promotions and perhaps the craze for crossword puzzles that had recently swept America (they became popular in the 1920s). **Overall:** The page juxtaposes earnest wartime charity appeals with lighthearted magazine marketing.
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some Armenian widow or orphan, or some one who would have been really helped by it? T must admit that the book does heights in spots. ‘The ution of the mother of a appeals to me as good a raiture as even Lytton Strachey might have done with this | neglected historical personage. In the chapter entitled “Why Didn't Some One Stop Little ‘ | powerful er au family and of Uncle Tom for tioning the whimsical death—wisl Litthe Eva—the author strikes off Little Eva's mother with this single caustic phrase: “Her mother was of a non-committal disposition and did not express herself one way or | the other.” Is not this a masterly and complete picture of Mrs. St. ( Be Then there is the paragraph at the bottom of page 1 A lot of New York women are getting alimony who don’t carn it.” One of the most amusing sketches in the book is a hasty drawing on page 56. An old lady reading a newspaper says: “I see this is | ‘Deep Breathing Week’.” Her hus- band, who is evidently stubborn to all ideas proposed by other people replies: “I won't have anything to do with it.” This strikes me as being particu- larly funny. OF course the book might be a whole lot funnier. It depends on how funny you like books. I heard some folks say recently that they were disappointed in Joe Cook—that he was not as funny as they expected him to be. Personally I thonght Joe Cook was just funny enough, and Herold says in the preface to his book that he hopes many readers. | will find it funny enough. He says | that he will be glad, on receipt of a stamped envelope for reply, to. send any disappointed purchaser a list of books that he considers lots funnier. He also apologizes for the size of the book, saying that he knows there | are lots of books larger than his but that they wer great deal more trouble for their authors and arc probably a lot more trouble to their A Recommendation Mistress—You say: you worked for the Van ‘Twillers. Can you prove | that? New Maid—Well, mum, I can show you some spoons an’ things with their in Boston Transcript American Red Cross Serves Humanity Have you a little Crossword in your home P JUDGE will meet—and solve—a burning issue of the day in its Crossword Puzzle Number Out Next Week No home should be without one