Judge, 1925-07-18 · page 25 of 37
Judge — July 18, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical commentary on everyday absurdities and social conventions circa early-to-mid 20th century. **Top cartoon**: A caller mistakes an "artist" (likely a struggling bohemian) for a professional painter, mocking the economic gulf between fine artists and working tradesmen—or possibly the pretension of calling oneself an "artist." **"People We Never Meet"** essay by Stanley Rauh humorously catalogs statistical impossibilities: 68,549 mothballs manufactured annually yet no one knows the manufacturer; hotel pages that never actually succeed; sleepwalkers who supposedly walk off roofs. The satire targets both mass production/consumerism and newspapers' sensational, likely invented stories. **"Krazy Kracks"**: A wordplay joke section (typical magazine filler). **"How Else Could They Maintain Their Identities?"**: References the Lucy Stone League—a real organization of married women who kept their maiden names, a then-radical feminist stance. The Solomon reference jokes that even biblical polygamy required identity maintenance. **Bottom cartoon**: Police use mention of "halitosis" (bad breath) as a euphemism for coercion—satirizing both police brutality and aggressive advertising of commercial products like mouthwash.
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CatuER—I see you have secured a painter. “No, they are too expensive—I got an artist instead.” People We Never Meet ny is it that in all my numerous contacts in this big commer- cial world that I have never met a man engaged in the manufacture of mothballs. Yet I understand that there are 68,549 mothballs used annually! 7 I have never met a man who has actually been paged in a hotel. I have seen any number spring from soft leather lobby chairs to ask the initials from screeching _ bellboys, but never have I met nor seen nor heard of a man who has been success- fully paged. Perhaps I am young, but I have never met either man, woman or child who walked in their sleep. I am constantly reading horrible tales of men walking off of roof gardens into public fountains eighteen floors below only to discover that they were asleep at the time. Stanley Rauh How Else Could They Maintain Their Identities? King Solomon’s wives were the first members of the Lucy Stone League. “give a sentence with the word A Taxidermist™ “Let's take a taxi- dermist is very heavy.” KRAZY RAC New Book by Horatio Alger, Jr. “From the Gas House to the Elec- tric Chair.” Pas What we need most is an amplifier for our income. “T think he'll go along quietly, officer, though I'm sorry to say I had to resort to severe measures. I told him he had halitosis.”