Judge, 1925-08-01 · page 25 of 36
Judge — August 1, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct pieces: **Left: "Vacations Versus Efficiency"** — A satirical advertisement for a fake service promising to deliver all the *discomforts* of a country vacation to your home instead. The joke mocks the reality that vacations often involve mosquitoes, sunburn, exhaustion, financial drain, and other miseries. Rather than travel for leisure, customers can simply pay $5 to experience these annoyances at home. The humor targets both the absurdity of vacation marketing and the American public's aspirations to leisure that rarely match reality. **Right: "Use Mollé" Advertisement** — A genuine product ad for Mollé shaving cream, featuring a man's headshot and promotional copy about brushless shaving. **Top Illustration:** Shows two women in conversation, with accompanying dialogue using exaggerated working-class dialect ("So I sez to 'er"). The woman on the right is called "Pansy" but is compared unfavorably to a chimpanzee. This reflects period stereotyping humor, though the specific target is unclear.
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“So I sez to ’er—Pansy, I sez—yer calls yerself Pansy!—well, wot I calls yer is Chimpanzee, with hall the ’abits and hinstinks of sich.” Vacations Versus Efficiency UMMER Vacations, Incorporated, will provide you with every dis- comfort of two weeks in the country, right in the comfort of your own home. Why travel on comfortable treins to experience vacation dis- comforts? We will bring to your own living-room every inconveni- ence, every annoyance and every aggravation that you could get anywhere. For the small sum of $5 we will send you, in a plain box, three dozen trained mosquitoes — well starved in advance; two bumble bees; a charming assortment of beetles, roaches and caterpillars; ten poison ivy plants and five gross of synthetic freckles. Check the vacation discomforts listed below. Whichever appeals to you most. In two days’ time we will give you full instructions on —Winter’s Piz how to enjoy your misery to the utmost—right in your own home, too! Blistered back and shoulders. Good case of poison ivy. Near drowning. Bitten by garter snake. Chased by bull. (Quadruped.) Slight ptomaine poisoning. Successful sunstroke. Inflamed mosquito bites. Sore feet from mountain climbing. Sore heads from social climbing. Depleted pocketbook. Athletic over-exertion. Our liquid, waterproof sunburn cannot be detected from the original. We even furnish you with snap- shots. of beautiful girls and men taken on beaches, mountain trails, etc., to show to the folks back at the office. Sign and mail the coupon below and enjoy the most uncom- fortably enjoyable stmmer you’ve ever had, right in the comfort of your own home. tS: eee Sh avil 1S, without sh 0 lather of the remarkable merit o} { SLOLLG foe suicls easy ean : Generous Trial Tube Free ‘Name Address Mail to PrydeWyna Co., New Brighton, Ps. comicbooks.com