Judge, 1925-08-22 · page 7 of 36
Judge — August 22, 1925 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains humor sketches and brief articles rather than political cartoons. The top panels show "Tony went to night school"—a comedic sequence where the character appears to mishear instructions, confusing "fore" (golf term) with "fire" (military command), creating physical comedy. The middle sections include fortune-telling humor, a brief essay praising alarm clocks as symbols of urban progress, and a "Modern Finance" joke about purchasing priorities. The bottom cartoon satirizes automobile parking problems—a common early 20th-century urban concern. It depicts an "inventor" proposing a "folding car for parking," mocking both traffic congestion and the era's enthusiasm for mechanical solutions to modern problems. The page primarily targets middle-class anxieties about city life, automobiles, and technological change.
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Fortune Teller—You are going on a journey and you will meet with good fortune. Motorist (eagerly)—You mean, when I drive downtown to-morrow, I will find a place to park? The road to Hell has some won- derful parking places. ‘Tuadge mill pay 85 for cach one printed Tony went to night school. What the Alarm Clock Means to Me I LOVE to hear the alarm clock ring. I can’t understand the people who curse it as an interrupter of sweet repose. To me it seems the symbol of existence itself. It is the sign that the great city has awakened from its slumber, that a new day is beginning, that the streets and buildings will soon be filled with surging, progressing life. Faithful servant! I love to hear the alarm clock ring. Tam a night watchman. Modern Finance Bobbs—If you had $1,000 what kind of a car would you buy? Sholtz—A $2,000 one. pas Breakfast, dinner, supper—mar- ried life’s eternal tri-wrangle. KRAZY RACKS “sire a veatence with the word 4 Beefy” <} a “Next to my skin I like beefy D.'s best.” comicbooks.com