Judge, 1924-11-22 · page 6 of 24
Judge — November 22, 1924 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several humor pieces rather than political cartoons: 1. **"The Lost Captain"** (poem by Percy Wazman): Satirizes a former Yale football captain who left coaching for Wall Street banking, now reduced to selling "gilt-edge bonds." The joke mocks his fall from athletic glory to mundane financial work. 2. **"The Evolution of a Thanksgiving Dinner"**: Humorous timeline from prehistoric times (10,000,000 B.C.) to 1924, tracing how Thanksgiving meals have changed—ultimately ending with the Browns buying modest groceries rather than elaborate feasts. 3. **"Funnybones"**: Two brief comic jokes about churches and a sentimental song. 4. **Bottom illustration**: A domestic scene about naming a newborn daughter, showing marital compromise between parents' preferences. The page is primarily light social humor rather than sharp political satire.
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The Go-getter. The Evolution of a Thanks- giving Dinner 10,000,000 -Bronto- saurus eats pterodactyl, finishing off with a couple of diplodoci. 800 B.c.—A burnt offering is eaten by mistake. 1400 a.p.—Medieval bums steal grilled pig from knight's hunting lodg 1898 a.p.—Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brown: serve sixteen-course dinner to thirty-five people in their dining- years B.C, room, 1924 a.v.—Mr. and Mrs. Brown drop around to the delicatessen store for ten cents worth of Swi quarter-pound of sturgeon, two dill pickles and a bottle of beer. A. L. L. he 2 Rud A modernist preacher says that churches should have more windows. Evidently the Fundamentalists think they should have more fire escapes. Funnybones Song—“I'm going back to Moon- shine Nell, because I love her still.” Giadge will pay $5 for Gach one printe A physical culturist says that if you sing and shout before breakfast and before going to bed, it will pre- vent an unhappy old age. The neighbors will attend to that. Funnybones ) Where the population is most dense is just abore the ears. ‘Tudge will pay 85 far Gach one printed “The Lost Captain” (With a Low Bow to R. Browning) ust for a job down in Wall Street he left us And Like a knife through an apple our captain has cleft us The year we were certain to get Harvard's goat. Now, eve a week (so he wrote). . day, gilt-edge bonds he'll be selling, The man who once captained the team against Yale! Who ran sixty yards with a frantic mob yelling The year he made Dartmouth supporters turn pale. Just think of him working with bankers and brokers, With only a year left to get his degree Think of him taking orders from schemer: nd croakers, The man who beat Princeton cleven to three. Just at the top of his game was he playing When tempted by gold he has left the team flat— Still, twenty-five bucks is a lot to be paying A fellow who couldn’t correctly spell cat. Percy Waxman MO Fi Epon ex f> Tue Hussanp (to visitor) —When our little girl was born I wanted her called Pamela, but my wife wanted her called Elizabeth d'you do?” to Mrs. Brown. —so we compromised. Elizabeth, come and say, “How comicbooks.com