Judge, 1924-11-01 · page 4 of 36
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate humor pieces: 1. **"Smart Sayings of Smarter Children"** - A nostalgic anecdote by Roswell J. Powers about children's precocious remarks, including a three-year-old's tantrum and an eight-year-old's comment about calculus being necessary to "run a car these days." This reflects early 1900s anxiety about rapid technological change affecting daily life. 2. **"Patient" cartoon** - A dentist joke where a patient complains the dentist gave him too much anesthesia (gas), a common contemporary concern with dental procedures. 3. **"Trimming"** - A poem by Edgar Daniel Kramer about excessive spending while shopping with one's wife, a timeless domestic humor theme, paired with a real-estate satire cartoon about Eastern buyers overwhelming the city market. The content reflects early 20th-century middle-class concerns: technology, medical procedures, marital finances, and urban development.
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Smart Sayings of Smarter Children y three-year-old nephew, Anaxi- mander, hurried breathlessly into the living-room where we were entertaining the minister and his wil i “Mamma!” he cried without regard for consequences, “Bruvver’s gone and torn his rubber rompers and now | you'll have to vuleanize them.” | Little Willie, my eighteen-month- | old cousin, was earnestly ing his father (my uncle) repair his auto. “What ns to be the matter?” he finally asked his dad. aid the differential's gone aid his daddy, wiping the se off his forchead with his $8 silk shirt. “Hell!” ejaculated Willie. “A fellow’s got to understand calculus to run a car the: Ermyntrude is a trifle precocious and for that reason her parents temporize with her At the dinner table the other night | she brusquely asked her mother to pass the mustz Mother smiled wearily and said expectantly, “If you—?" Imagine our embarrassment when the little darling retorted, “If you ° know what's good for you!” Roswell J. Powers Funnybones Patient (to dentist)—I say, sir, you ought to be a little more careful; you have given me too much gas. The reformer who is always seeing dirt should clean his own glasses ‘Fudge will pay 85 for each one printed ’ Trimming I WENT out shopping with wifie, To get her some stuff for a hat, But, ere our tour was ended, The dear purchased much more than that. All of my money soon vanished, Although I had taken a lot; I went with my wife for some trimming, Prospective Buyer From THE East—Now what's that. Why the rush? | Reat Estate Acext—Oh, they're trying to survey the city Limits and its growing so fast they can’t keep up with it. And, believe me, that’s just what I got! Edgar Daniel Kramer comicbooks.com