Judge, 1924-11-15 · page 4 of 36
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon - "Egyptian Room Silence":** The cartoon satirizes museum visitors' ignorance. A visitor (Bill) mistakes the museum label "B.C. 1400" for a license plate, asking what vehicle "ran over" the mummy. The joke mocks casual visitors who bring modern assumptions to ancient artifacts, treating an archaeological dating system as contemporary automotive information. It's gentle satire about public museum behavior and widespread lack of historical literacy. **Text Features:** The page includes "Funnybones" (humorous anecdotes), "Beauty and the Beast" (satirical story about domestic life), and "Getting Serious" (a cartoon about rejected manuscript submissions). These pieces collectively mock everyday social situations—spousal relations, museum visits, and the writer's life—typical of Judge's satirical humor targeting middle-class American experiences and attitudes.
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> \ ] “That's th’ plate of th’ car that run over im, silly.” Beauty and the Beast Prox on my back I lay, powerless to rise. The blood rushed to my head. I could feel his bulky body over me and his hot breath on my cheeks. As I writhed in agony his powerful hands seized my head. Tantalizingly and slowly, oh so slowly, they ran over my face to- ward my throat. Terror seized me. I tried to scream, but was powerless, He bent his red, swollen face over me and as his hands en- circled my windpipe, he enticingly murmured: “How about a nice face massage to-day, boss?” A, L. L. anal Mrs. Flanagan—I hear yer hus- band’s in jail. Mrs. O’Reilly—Yes, an’ it’s about time. Here we been pinchin’ our- selves for three years to pay taxes to keep it goin’ an’ this is the first chance we've ever had to use it. FAD A woman must display a good deal of backbone to dress in the latest style. Among husbands and wives the Punic wars of yesterday have noth- ing on the Tunic ware of to-day. OUD. t rr = y UNOS First Visitor (looking at museum mummy)—Listen, Bill, what’s B.C. 1400? Getting Serious! Author (in jesting mood)—When is a joke not a joke, old man? Hardened Humorist—When it comes back from six different editors with a rejection slip! Mistrress—I put a light evening gown in the wardrobe, yesterday, Jane, just hand it out to me. JanE—There’s nothing here, mum—only a couple of very fat moths. comicbooks.com