Judge, 1925-01-03 · page 6 of 36
Judge — January 3, 1925 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains New Year's Eve satirical sketches from an early 20th-century American magazine. The main cartoon depicts a large dragon labeled "1922" (or similar year) terrorizing rural and urban figures, symbolizing the year's challenges and misfortunes. **Content includes:** - **"New Year's Eve (In the Country)"** and **(In the City)**: Contrasting how rural versus urban Americans celebrated, with country folk doing simpler activities versus city dweller Harry Henderson's elaborate nightclub revelry. - **"New Year's Card"** and **"Funnybones"**: Humorous greetings and puns. - **"The Haunted Car"** cartoon: A parked vehicle with "NO PARKING" sign, likely satirizing urban parking enforcement or automobile culture anxieties. The humor relies on class contrasts and everyday frustrations recognizable to 1920s readers.
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New Year's Eve (In the Country) | J) Srocum feeds the stock and does * the chores, locks the gates and sits down to a supper of cormbeef and cabbage, finishing off with a pint of hand cider and a slab of mince pie. He tunes in ont Closing market and produce quot W pages in the Sed lions, reads a fe Roebuck C bat at nine Catalog and hops inte | clock muttering, “G: I wisht Pwuz down to the city to celebrate to-night.” Cn the City) Harry Henderson feeds a few chorus girls and does the round. of the cabarets, finally sitting down to a midnight supper of lobster, truffles and tortoni, finishing off with a s— quart of champagne and a bottle of bromo seltzer, He dances until six at. and eats breakfast at’ Childs. He finally hops into bed at 8 ast josh, T wish Thad been up in the country last night to cek muttermyg. brate.” Arthur L. Lippmann Loca Potuceman (to St. Funnybones nad George)—You killed this ‘ere i drayon, did't you? Sr. Gronce—I did. “Well, you can’t leave it lyin’ about ‘ere, you know!” mes in a four year New Year's Card (From the Buckeye Burial Vault Co.) {* happiness, Be gay and free of faults; And if, perchance, you shuftle off Request our granite vaults. Year bring you (From a Friendly Taxi Driver) ' Oh, greetings for the year to come— May it carry no regret; And if you'll cross on Broadway, friend, T'll surely kill you yet! A. LL, \Funnybones /—\ The Lord gieeth and the Ford taketh away ——~_—_— 2 will pay 85 for Oxch one prt The haunted car. comicbooks.com