Judge, 1925-01-10 · page 5 of 36
Judge — January 10, 1925 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains **"Grammatical Gleanings,"** a humor column mixing statistical trivia with wordplay, and several unrelated comic features. The main illustration depicts a large hand holding two figures in a wilderness setting, accompanying a whimsical caption about dictionaries, fountains, and puzzles—likely a book advertisement. Below are **crossword-related cartoons** showing five figures, numbered 1-5, with the caption "Four out of every five are victims." This appears to reference the growing popularity of crossword puzzles (a 1920s craze), humorously suggesting they're addictive or frustrating for solvers. Additional jokes include "Rhymes of a Modern Mariner" about ocean liners, and "Funnybones," a typical advice column joke. The page primarily features light satirical humor rather than serious political commentary.
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Grammatical Gleanings HE same expert who laid matches end to end from Bombay, India, to Columbus, O., has been occupied the last few months compiling the following cross section on the cross- word catastrophe: 1,831,231 dumb Doras who think that manual labor isa Mexican, have learned that a thesaurus is a book and not, as they imagined © or a wild animal. eturers of pencil erasers tagions d 586 manu report a treme se in sales, while 847,875 radio sets are growing cobwebs. dictionaries have been wn from the attic and in nee a pressed flower fell wg mother to blush and “en com rds with padded cells in order to segregate the crossworders from the other less vie nt inmat ght (8) times during the past six months, N to Saint Pe can't be Webster remarked a tough break I ive these days:to. get:the ook. of Syronymy wrleryeatl t to get t yn ry ” Wye riy the hough, royalties on my dictionary.” The net total of American educa- A Victionary, a Pountain-pen—ail Thou tion has been vastly increased by 2¢ 4 : “Willeenore sg pas leente Uae reine, Cran ao in the Wilderness — 0 a large parrot inhabiting the » Wilderness iy Kar mountainous portions of the South a Ss Island of New Zealand. Arthur L. Lippmann Rhymes of a Modern Mariner Oceau liners are so large That Ihave got a notion That many folks who work in them Have never seen the ocean, Simply Screaming} “How's your new r “It's a howling success ( \Funnybones Four out of every fire are victims. comicbooks.com