Judge, 1925-05-23 · page 3 of 36
Judge — May 23, 1925 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# "Judge" Page Analysis: "Summer Plans" This page features a poem titled "Judge" by L.D. Young, paired with two cartoon vignettes illustrating contrasting summer scenarios. The left cartoon shows a drug store scene with a flapper and her boyfriend in an intimate moment—likely satirizing modern youth culture and casual dating practices of the 1920s era. The right cartoon depicts a family group studying a world map, representing traditional, educational summer planning. The juxtaposition appears to mock generational differences: the satiric contrast between "modern" youth indulgence (the drug store romance) versus conventional family values (geographic education). The poem's references to flappers, "Old Bull" cars, and romance reflect Judge magazine's typical critique of Jazz Age social changes through humorous comparison of old and new behaviors.
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**LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" Wires the bright lights of the drug store Send the evening shadows flying, Strolled a little flapper darling, Full of laughter, full of moonshine, Full of bull and fudge and nonsense, Bullowatha Like a fender on a flivver When the road is rough and rocky. “Kid,” said he above the sodas, “L have found for you a yearning That is stronger than the White And his hand around the soda Grew so hot with love and longing ‘That the soda steamed and sizzled Like a froze iator On a Henry Ford in winter. UDGE With her arm around her caveman, Mule, So the drug store cowboy wed her 4 He, the hero of the flappers, Warmer than the well-known hot With a smoke ring on her finger, dog While the Old Bull mooed and tot- | That will swing ‘Till it flutters in the bi Like a yellow leaf in autumn, Like a straw hat in a cyclone, When it first mates with the mustard. ‘Though I know it is old-fashioned T would have your hand in marriage?” So he waited for her answer While his heart-beats shook the table tered, Curled his toes up neath the table, At the way the dapper threw him When she murmured to her lover, “All my life I will obey you.” L. D. Young Summer plans. comicbooks.com