Judge, 1925-08-15 · page 7 of 37
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains satirical content mocking marital dynamics of the era: **"Handbook for Husbands"** parodies a fake instructional book offering "1,001 Excuses for Staying Out Nights" by a fictional professor. The cartoon shows a man attempting to convince his wife he was at a conference while she remains skeptical—poking fun at husbands' transparent excuses for nighttime absences. **"A Dream of the Baker's Dosin'"** is a humorous poem about a young baker who left Kentucky for city life, got married, and now has his wages spent by his wife on household expenses ("his darling wife pockets all his dough"). The moral warns that city life traps naive young men in marriage. **"Krazy Kracks"** is a separate comic strip segment about unconventional domestic situations. The page satirizes early 20th-century marriage tensions and male anxieties about loss of freedom and financial control after marriage.
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“Tried to convince his entire harem that he'd been in a conference.” HANDBOOK FOR HUSBANDS Containing 1,001 Excuses for Staying Out Nights by Prof. Abeliar Glibtongue, A.B., C.D. Enviror’s Nore.—Junce is indeed fortunate in obtaining the rights to publish this amazing volume in serial form and we are sure it will prove a great boon to those of our readers who are married. Professor Glibtongue spent twenty years compiling this in- valuable handbook: and the hazards he went through would make a thrilling story in itself. He has been married six times and is the veteran of three wars. Introduction N gathering data for my treatise on Excuseology I have studied man and his marital relations in every country of the globe. I have heard the home-coming Chinaman cry: “Sitee up with sick friend,” to his China eyed spouse; heard the Arabian sheik explain that he got sand in his eyes and couldn’t find his way home, and marveled at the stupidity of the ‘Turk who tried to convince his entire harem that he’d been in a conference. All these experiences, including my six marriage ventures, brought me to the realization that there was a crying need for the development of the science of Excuseology. Colleges should open courses for this study so that the youth of our country may become expert Excuse- ologists before they reach a marri able age. Think of the suffering this would alleviate, how it would de- crease the appalling number of divorces, and relieve the crowded condition of our hospitals. True, it would throw hundreds of men out of work through the closing of rolling- pin and stove poker factories, and it would mean the end of the newspaper comic strips; but the money saved and put in savings banks by hus- bands through not having to buy “guilty conscience” gifts would more than pay for the sacrifice. I am firmly convinced that this treatise will go down in history along with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proc- lamation. (Excuses, with full directions, begin next weel-.) “Whew! Daring, isn’t she?” “Oh. yes, but she comes by it naturally. A Dream of the Baker’s Dosin’ H= was bred in Old Kentucky, but was raised-up in the yeast, Where he rolled his own and led a loafer’s life; He was only just a leaven on the day we said good-by, And I warned him of the city’s storm and strife. Now he’s gone and gotten married and I warned him of that too, As he stood upon the doorstep long ago, Now his days of buns are over for he never touches rye, And his darling wifie pockets all his dough. And the moral of the story, if a moral you must have, Is a scintillating, fascinating one; Though you may look swheat in childhood to your mamma and your folks, You may just turn out to be a hot- cross pun. Carroll KRAZLY «RACKS “give a sentence with the word // Adventure” “My gosh! I thought that truck: adventure fender.” Her father was a strip artist.” comicbooks.com