Judge, 1925-03-21 · page 8 of 36
Judge — March 21, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate humor pieces satirizing early 20th-century American life: **"Customer-Fresh Clerk"**: A brief joke about a salesclerk's deliberately obtuse response. When a customer asks to try on a dress displayed in the window, the clerk refuses, pretending to misunderstand—implying the customer wants to undress publicly. The humor lies in the clerk's feigned innocence and the girl "trying to be smart." **"Birds of a Feather"**: A romantic narrative where the narrator observes a couple dancing with passionate intensity, describing their intertwined movements in breathless detail. The twist: the woman complains they're playing waltzes when she and her boyfriend want fox trots—deflating the narrator's poetic romanticization with mundane practicality. **"I Know a Girl"**: Social satire mocking an affected young woman who pretends literary sophistication while completely misunderstanding famous poets and authors (confusing Verlaine with perfume, Coleridge with politics, Kipling with interior decoration). She's portrayed as a pretentious poseur with secondhand opinions. All three pieces gently mock affectation, miscommunication, and the gap between pretense and reality.
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Customer—May I try on that dress in the window? Fresu Crerx—Not with the curtains up! / The girl is trying to be smart and makes belicte that she thinks the woman wants to change her clothes right in the window Of course, she doesn't! Boids of a Feather Free where I sat, I could see them very plainly. Now their backs were to me, but occasionally they would whirl each other about, and I could notice their nostrils dilating and almost hear their heavy breath- ing. His long, strong arms were crushing his companion to him, though the latter would suddenly slip under and around; but always the thing would happen so quickly that the eye could scarcely follow the rapid movements. Four white, strong arms seemed intermingled as they flashed about, though now and then, one would emerge from the mélée. “Splendid,” I murmured, scarcely able to re- strain my enthusiasm. Then the music stopped and they came toward me. “Ah, it gives me a pain in the nec she muttered, “always playing waltzes when me and my boy friend wants fox trots.” Cyrano I Know a Girl- ne thinks that Verlaine is a Parisian perfumer, that Quiller- Couch is a new type of day bed and that Robert Frost is the brother of Jack Frost, but she’s just too inter- ested in poetry to live without it. She always gushes like that. You know the type. [ asked her what she thought of Tom Moore and Robert Burns and she told me that she liked the aroma of them both but sometimes her father smoked more expensive cigars and she liked them even better. At the mere mention of Coleridge she went into a long diatribe against the Republican party and said that he was the last man she'd vote for for President of this magnificent country, And that the only reason he was re-elected was because the people were ignorant concerning actual conditions in Washington, which she knew all about through a personal friend of an uncle of the chum of one of the page boys in the capitol building. She thinks Kipling iy the latest thing in mural decoration, that Browning is a method of preparing potatoes and that Wordsworth wrote the dictionary. Carroll Date-palmistry Domestic Science Prof.—Dates are very nourishing. Co-Ed—Not those with freshmen. KRAZY RACKS “give a sentence with the word 4 Viaduct” Lo “G “He threw a Sa brick at me. That's ciaduct.” Judge paye $5 for each krazy krack printed. “You have to hand it to father.” a comicbooks.com