Judge, 1924-11-08 · page 4 of 36
Judge — November 8, 1924 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains literary humor and social commentary rather than political cartoons. **"A Charade"** is a character sketch describing an eccentric person familiar with exotic animals (zebu, gnu, okapi, guagga) found only in zoos and unabridged dictionaries. The humor lies in depicting someone so obsessively learned yet socially awkward they'd attempt crossword puzzles in a library rather than help with dishes after Sunday dinner. **"Funnybones"** credits Frank X. Cross for inventing crossword puzzles to resolve a marital dispute. **"Rebellion"** is a poem about a Southern woman whose affected dialect ("Ah'm fom de sunny South") masks her true origins from "Little Old Noo Yawk," satirizing false regional affectations. **"Unsung Heroines"** shows a traffic policeman's wife—likely commenting on overlooked support roles of public servants' spouses. The illustrations are generic domestic scenes supporting these literary pieces.
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A Charade aM found in great numbers in ities and hamlets throughout this grand and glorious country. Iam not a student of zodlogy, yet Tam familiar with the names, haunts and habits of many strange and rare birds and beasts, such as the zebu. the gnu, the osprey, the okapi, the guagga, the ruff, the emu, and others too numerous and hard to spell to mention, which are found only in uncivilized localities, in well-stocked zoos and in unabridged dictionaries (and then with difficulty). The female of my species may be discovered of a Sunday afternoon in the library with pencils and erasers attempting to squeeze a word of eight letters into a space meant for five—but never in the kitchen help- ing with the dishes after the Sunday dinner. Tam the citizen who used to con- sume on an average of four and two- thirds Eskimo pies daily (rain or shine). The perplexities of the income tax blank are as nothing to me. If nothing else worth mentioning, Funny, I am at least persistent. bones What am I? “Luann, “But, my man, I’m just a poor professor.” “I know. Well, come clean with a seven letter word meaning metealuferous.”” Crossword puzzles were invented by Frank X. Cross, a cross-eyed cross- (In answering, use your own ju examiner of La Crosse, Wis., in order Crosswords make happy Sabbaths ment, but try to avoid profanity.) to double cross his crosspatch of a Robert Cyril O' Brien wife who crossed her heart she would ‘Tadge will pay 85 for cach one printed leave him if she ever came across him solving a jigsaw puzzle of “‘Washing- ton Crossing the Delaware.” Robert Cyril O’ Brien sae Every little law has a meaning all its own—and sometimes even the lawyers can’t decide what it is. Rebellion n’M fom de sunny South,” she said, With similar, soothing Southern talk; Yet her inflection showed instead She hailed from Little Old Noo Yawk. £ “Ah’m glad to meet yo-all,” she sighed, “Ah dotes on meetin’ folks dat’s fine—” ‘Till finally in despair I cried: “Cutout that Mason-Dixon ‘line.’ ” UNSUNG HEROINES Arthur L. Lippmann The wife of a traffic policeman. comicbooks.com