Judge, 1924-12-13 · page 25 of 36
Judge — December 13, 1924 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical humor typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine, targeting wealthy leisure culture and marital dynamics. **"Confession of a Golf Millionaire"** mocks the ultra-rich obsession with exclusive recreation. The author boasts about building private golf links to avoid waiting at country clubs and, most revealingly, to exclude women golfers—presented as the ultimate annoyance. The satire targets both snobbish wealth-flaunting and misogyny disguised as convenience. **"Old Home Week"** cartoon (bottom left) shows a town welcoming visitors, likely satirizing nostalgic Americana tourism. **"Funnybones"** contains brief jokes ridiculing ministers' hypocrisy and foreign loan-seeking using "See America First" rhetoric. **"Estrangement"** by John McColl is a poem about Mah-Jongg, a then-fashionable parlor game. The speaker laments how playing with a long-time friend reveals incompatibility, threatening their friendship—satirizing how recreational gaming exposes relationship cracks among the leisured classes. The overall theme: satire of wealthy Americans' recreational pursuits and the social tensions they reveal.
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-— Confession of a Golf Millionaire Taere is simply nothing like own- ing your own private links. Before I invested in mine and got it properly laid out and going, I found it was impossible to play at the country club with any comfort. There was no telling how long I would have to wait to drive off. But much worse than this, I never knew what bore I was going to play with, as I was constantly dragged into twosomes, foursomes, even threesomes with anyone who came along and grabbed me to fill out with. And at any time it might be a woman. All this delay and discomfort have been avoided now, thanks to my private links. It’s expensive but worth it. I keep it filled up with the dubs that formerly bothered me, and play myself at the country club. Thomas. L. Masson see Although heaven is a beautiful place as described by the ministers they usually seem anxious to pay the doctor to keep them from going. sae The popular foreign slogan: See America first—when looking for a loan. Why get up at all? ~ \Funnybones A lot of chorus girls are living on the fat-headed of the land Young Hopeful—Dad, what is a Welsh rarebit? Old Hopeless—It’s something to be eaten; only it can’t when it should, and it shouldn’t when it can. She Never Got Across Girl—Pa, what is the Bridge ighs? Dad (an auction fiend)—Playing with your mother for a partner, Estrangement I I sust need a nine bamboo For my fourth set of three, The end reveals the other two Reclining restfully Upon your rack. You always cling (I wonder how you know) Adhesively to anything I want; won't let it go; And, if a season you obtain, A fancy floral Sign, My doubling hope is rendered vain— You lay down both of mine; Or if I try to gather twins, Well, six pairs is the best Lever pull. The East wind wins— And you discard the West! I pant to pung, I choose to chow, How gladly I would gongg! But what's the use? With you, somehow, My wits and wiles go wrong. We have been friends for years a score, Alas, it should betide That, if we play Mah Jongg much more, I'll be a friendicide! John McColl | a comicbooks.com