Judge, 1925-04-18 · page 10 of 36
Judge — April 18, 1925 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis for Modern Readers This page contains two separate humorous pieces from *Judge* magazine: **Top cartoon**: A comedic driving scene where a driver brags to Aunt Minerva about the bus's capabilities, then immediately loses control, ejecting her from the vehicle. The joke is simple physical comedy—the driver's boast is immediately undercut by disaster. **"Little Lectures" essay**: A mock-serious narrative about a formal dinner aboard a ship, written in deliberately overwrought, pretentious language. The humor derives from: - **Absurd vocabulary**: Made-up words like "glingchukks" (waiters) and "serump" (valuable asset) that sound pseudo-sophisticated - **Escalating disasters**: A guest breaks an arm passing the salt and pepper; the party runs out of butter mid-journey - **Social satire**: Mocking upper-class dining formality and the pretension of French cuisine ("unable to read simple menu French") The captions about radio and spring weather appear to be unrelated advertisements or filler. The overall tone satirizes both automotive enthusiasm and upper-class dinner etiquette as inherently chaotic despite their veneer of sophistication.
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Driver—Now, watch! I'm gonna show Aunt Minerva what I can get out of this bus. “Well, stop. You're got Aunt Minerra out of it!” Little Lectures From Soup to Nuts—or Coursing Down the Dinner with Kith, Kin and Napkin T" river dinner lay cool and un- palatable beneath the glistening light of the evening chandelier, which shines so brightly in first-class saloon, as our trim little ship, The Knifan- fork prepared to start its long voyage to indigestion. The family was naturally anxious to be in dining- ut Thad t ake a pssary arrangements with the glingchukks (waiters) and slopguys (bus-boys), who later proved so in- valuable an asset to our expedition as to be practically a serump (valu- one bell, able asset). Leaving cocktail, that tight little gulp just before yi pasto, we wandered into conversa- come to anti- tion and thence onward to the des- sert. But we had barely gotten under way when our trials began. We passed the cellars of salt and pepper with only one serious mishap, one of our banquet (party) suffering a Don't let the radio keep you indoors this spring weather. racket solves the problem. New radio broken arm—(Try and keep the slides right side up please), as shown in this picture taken on the spot. You can readily see what a nice compound fracture it is. (Please excuse me while Tt coughing spell and take a drir pass it around but I'm taki medicinal purposes onl) have a fearful cold.) Miter resetting the table, T mean the arm, we continued on our way across the festal board. make entrée into socie' artichc (Here you will sce one of our intre band making the difficult, approach on artichoke), but unfort your little expedi- tion ended in ster forwe had made only half the journey when we ran out of butter and could roll no further. How our party starved to death through an inability to read. simple menu French, and was never heard of again will be picturesquely related in the lecture of this series to be called, “PI secking to by way of sant Thames in London, or Strolling Through Troubadour.” Carroll comicbooks.com