Judge, 1925-04-25 · page 26 of 36
Judge — April 25, 1925 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page lampoons modern inventions and contemporary attitudes toward them. "I Know a Girl" mocks a woman who holds contradictory views about new technology—dismissing the cotton gin and airplanes as frivolous while simultaneously praising all modern innovations. The joke centers on her illogical stance that the telephone's inventor wasted effort naming it after Alexander Graham Bell rather than something more "important." The accompanying cartoons satirize absurd scenarios ("Things we'd like to see")—a cow sliding down a church steeple, a radio announcer revealed as merely human rather than superhuman. "A Wishbone" is a darkly humorous poem about wishing upon a wishbone, ending with the speaker nearly choking to death—a cautionary joke about folklore and superstition. The "Funnybones" caption provides additional comic commentary. Overall, the page uses exaggeration and irony to critique both uncritical enthusiasm for progress and resistance to it.
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