Judge, 1925-03-21 · page 5 of 36
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 3 **"People We Never Meet"** is a humorous essay about professions the author claims never to have encountered—linoleum designers, bassoon players, glass eye manufacturers. The satire mocks how certain specialized professions seem to exist theoretically but remain invisible in everyday life. **"The Wife"** cartoon depicts a domestic scene where a baby has crawled into a louddspeaker horn (likely a gramophone or radio), creating loud noise. The wife apologizes to her husband, suggesting she left the baby unattended. This reflects 1920s-30s anxieties about new technologies (radios/gramophones) in homes and absent-minded domestic management. **"Blue Laws Suggested by the Indigo Committee"** proposes absurd restrictive laws (newspapers banned on Sabbath, chorus girls limited, etc.), satirizing overly puritanical regulation. The page contains period humor and advertising typical of Judge magazine.
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People We Never Meet Jow for instance, I have never met a man or woman who de- signed linoleum. Still, from the thousands of intricate patterns I have seen in Maey’s basement I am » must he any number of individuals who devote their labors and time exclusively to the designing of linole T have never met a bs Yet. [am sure there dreds of them sure the soon player. ust be hun- Why, a bassoon 1 integral part of its But I have . strange as it may I have never met anyone who had met one. -Thave yet to meet a man in the manufacture of g! Yet, they tell me th thousands of glass eyes made every year. Mr. Simmons of our shipping department has a glass eye and even he has never met one. Anyway, perhaps it is all for the best. Iam sure I would grope for amiable conversation with a glass eye manufacturer. S. Rauh somew! every orchestra has to h player as harmony never met o seem, Furthermore, could he have crawled to? Tur Wire—My goodness, [ only left him in your arm *a minute ago—where KRAZY (RACKS - “give a sentence with the word Affidavit” “1 affidarit and Goliath book at You see, the baby has crawled into the low i The man and his wife are #0 accustomed t uker horn and is making a terrible noise nny sounds coming out of the radio that they think the radio is giving its usual performance — J home.” Judge pays $5 for each krazy krack printed. aduta VENICE When it’s night time in Italy. { This quaint joke is based on the habit people hare of putting the cat out at night. | Paul Reilly, the droll fellow, thinks this is how they do it in Venice. really don't. L Of course they Blue Laws Suggested by the Indigo Committee Ne NEWSPAPERS nor lips to go to a on the Sabbath, rt fractions to be abolished in all schools Chorus s to display only one. tenth of one per cent. of their legs Glasses to be worn by everybody to pri ent them secing with naked eyes. No man-of-war to be stripped for action during maneuvers. g skirts to be worn, equipped with appropriate weights for windy ntist to work on the teeth woman if the nerves are K. A. Bisbee. of any exposed. Funnybones Teall my girl medium, because she nerer gices me a ghost of a show comicbooks.com