Judge, 1925-03-14 · page 9 of 36
Judge — March 14, 1925 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains **humorous character sketches and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. **"I Know a Girl"** is a satirical portrait of a young woman who misunderstands games, activities, and words through either willful ignorance or deliberate pretense. The joke: she confuses "euchre" with an exclamation, "parcheesi" with a widower, and "cribbage" with infancy. She loves using words like "passion" and "love" indiscriminately. The illustrations show period leisure activities—a woman in fashionable dress by a fence, and "physical culture family, grazing" (satirizing outdoor recreation trends). The closing line mocks her social manipulation: she'll flatter male dance partners then suggest sitting out dances. **"Protection?"** is a brief joke about boarding house food: new boarders assume "chicken every morning" means fresh chicken, but it's served "in the shell"—a cynical reference to cheap, sparse meals. **"Krazy Kracks"** is a word-puzzle advertisement asking readers to use "mustache" in a sentence. The page reflects 1920s concerns about women's social behavior, leisure culture, and dining conditions.
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I Know a Girl— © thinks euchre is an exclamation of contempt and « . that parcheesi is an old widower who is | about to marry Mah Jongg, and that hearts is a game for two played in a darkened room or on the top of a bus, but she just dotes on little informal parties where one plays games and does as one pleases. Lasked her if she was familiar with the latest bridge developments. and | she replied that she'd seen a number of pictures of new ones being opened, in news recls at the movies in the past few weeks, but that she really | wasn’t interested in’ that sort of | thing. | She told me that she’s passionately fond of crossword puzzles. She thinks that they are such a mental stimulant. (As if) anything were powerful enough to stimulate her mind.) She's quite proud of the fact that she completed a whole puzzle once. As a matter of fact she’s passion- ately fond of almost everything. word passion is, in tmith, her pet passion. She uses love and passion as if the n like com beef agher and Shean. She thinks charades are made on cabarets for selling liquor illegally, that cribbage is the period in a per- son's life between nothing and three years, that whist is an Irish expres- sion, but she doesn’t know what it means and that anagrams are a new means of rapid communication. The slack wire performer takes a stroll in the country. If you ever meet her she'll tell you you dance heavenly and then suggest sitting out the next one. Don't be offended. Do as she suggests. She sits out dances very well. Carroll Protection? New Boarder—Say, what kind of table do they set h Old Ditto—Oh, all right, Lsuppose. | We have chicken every moming. “Chicken every morning? How iv iviserved “In the shell.” KRALY ‘RACKS ‘Give me a ventence with the Mustache “LT mustache corner comicbooks.com