Judge, 1925-07-11 · page 14 of 36
Judge — July 11, 1925 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct items: **Top cartoon:** A police complaint sketch where a man claims another man hit "a horse on the head" with "me" (himself). The joke plays on the complainant's apparent stupidity—he's reporting being used as a weapon, presented as absurd comedy. **Main article: "I Know a Girl"** by Carroll is satirical commentary on a young woman's spectacular ignorance. She confuses everyday terms (water wings are street-flushing equipment; Leopold and Loeb are life buoys; surf bathing is feudal servants' art). The satire mocks her intellectual emptiness while she remains cheerfully oblivious. The **Irish Assistant cartoon** (bottom) makes a crude joke about colonial-era racial attitudes, playing on the phrase "two is company, three's a crowd." The humor targets female naiveté and stupidity—typical of era conventions in Judge magazine—and relies on the reader finding humor in women's supposed ignorance about sports, bathing, and basic vocabulary. The tone is condescending by modern standards.
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“Officer, I wanta complain of that feller—he hit a horse on the head!” “Wot with?” “Mel” I Know a Girl Se thinks water wings are those fellows that flush the streets every night, that Leopold and Loeb are life buoys and that surf bathing is an old etching of the servants’ quarters in feudal days, but she just loves the water, everything about it, except for drinking pur- poses, When I asked her if she liked still water bathing best she said, “Well, yes and no; sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. It depends whether I'm in a hurry or not. Most generally. I am and then I take a shower.” I explained to her that I wasn't prying into her ablutionary methods hut that T just wanted to find out if she liked pool bathing. She imme diately became enthusiastic. : “What, another new sport?” she asked, the dumbness fairly sparkling ~~ > Y= Sy Trish Assistant (to African Explorer)—If “Two Is Company,” I think we have visitors, “an easy game, but billiards is. all S— AS atweco in her cow-like eyes, “I thought I knew them all. What do you do, play pool first? Don’t you get the tables all wet? Anyway I don't think I'd like it much. Pool’s such right. I used to know an awfully nice boy who was a billiard champion, He said he'd teach me the game, but he only gave me one lesson and then was suddenly called away to China. I was sorry because I just ‘got to - adore the cute clicking of the balls.” Well, that about ended that, She thinks springboard is the reduced rates at the resort hotels that open early in the season, that catamaran is an Irish lightweight pugilist and that there are only two kinds of waves, marcel and permanent. She says she can’t understand why they call them one-piece bathing suits because she hasn't had any peace since she’s had hers what with her father and mother first and then the policemen at all the beaches. She says it’s just too silly the way. they take on about what she takes—off. She says she thinks a noardwalk is just the best thing in the summer- time. Well, if she walks alone and > talks to herself awhile she'll change y her mind about that, « Carroll comicbooks.com