Judge, 1925-05-09 · page 13 of 36
Judge — May 9, 1925 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the relationship between New York City and Brooklyn. The top cartoon shows two well-dressed New Yorkers watching a parade of increasingly disheveled Brooklyn arrivals—visual mockery of Brooklyn's perceived lower status. The main article, "New York's Little Joke," is *itself* satire. A Brooklyn resident defends their borough against decades of vaudeville jokes portraying it as a backwards, dangerous place requiring "dog sledges and native guides." The author ironically undermines this defense by admitting he's moving to Manhattan the next day, then promising to share negative stories about Brooklyn afterward. The bottom cartoon depicts crowded morning commuters with signs reading "LOCAL" and "EXPRESS"—referencing Brooklyn's role as a working-class commuter borough feeding workers into Manhattan. The "This Ought To Be Good" section is unrelated moralizing about wives, mothers, and husbands needing to be productive/earn money. The satire captures early 20th-century class tensions: Brooklyn as the working-class outer borough mocked by Manhattan's supposedly sophisticated residents.
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<< —— Yourtns (arriving in New York)—And to think that we've been kidded all our lives for being tins! New York's Little Joke Brooklyn Trew York is bounded and con- founded ononesideby Brooklyn. Brooklyn supplies 80 per cent. of the gags for vaudeville comedians in New York. According to New Yorkers, Brooklyn is still a virgin inhabited by — strange ts, rubber plants It’s a lie—a deliberate, malicious hie! Mong with Hoboken, Hohokus, ‘anarsie, Oshkosh and Squeedunk, Brooklyn is erroneously regarded asa funny place. Old New Yorkers tell of being lost in the wilds of Brooklyn for weeks at a stretch \ quaint idea persists that travel in certain parts of Brooklyn is accom- plished only with the aid of dog sledge and native guides. It's a lie! You see, I was born and razzed, L mean raised, in Brook- Iyn and IT reseut these slurs on our peaceful hamlet. I rise to defend the Borough's Until next Tuesday. Next Wednesday I move over the river to New York. ext Thursday I'll have some great stories to tell you about Brooklyn, the slowest, de ty staidest burg in the Union, Why, they're dead from the neck up over name,— jest, laziest, queer confined to sides to avoid being trampled. there—oh, I forget, I shouldn't talk this way until next Thursday. But, some day, most of us return to Brooklyn, whether we want tu You see, 90 per cent. of New emete: are over in Brook Arthur L. Lippmann This Ought To Be Good Good daughters ought to make good wives. Good wives ought to make good mothers. Good sons ought to make good husbands, Good husbands ought to make good salaries. New York people must soon be classed as Expresses or Locals and all slow moving be comicbooks.com