Judge, 1925-09-19 · page 7 of 36
Judge — September 19, 1925 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon depicts a suitor who has crashed his automobile, attempting to console his female companion. His line—"You were just the last girl in the world I thought would reject me!"—satirizes male entitlement and the disconnect between romantic self-confidence and reality. The page is primarily comprised of "Unpublished Testimonials," humorous reader submissions mocking advertising claims. These include absurd anecdotes: a crossword puzzle book supposedly solving all answers, synthetic cigarettes enabling motorcycle speeding, and an airplane accident creating convenient medical treatment. The "Henry the Eighth" section appears to be a character feature, though its specific satirical target is unclear from visible text. Overall, this page exemplifies *Judge's* satirical approach: mocking both courtship conventions and the exaggerated claims of consumer advertising through fictional testimonials.
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Surror (who has crashed)—You were just the last girl in the world I thought would reject me! Eva—Don’t talk so foolishly, Gilbert, you'll find there are thousands of other girls. Unpublished Testimonials Or Why the Ad Men Have to Write Their Own Pilsen’s Problems for Puzzled Pizzness Men lon Xmas last year I got one of your crossword puzzle books from my nephew in Salt Lake City. I just want to tell you I got them all done and correct except a couple places in some of the off corners where it don’t show much. I guess you will be glad to know somebody has had the nerve to stick at it long enough to get a set all done and if you want to know the right answers I will consider selling the book back to you for what it says on the cover it cost my nephew in Salt Lake City. Maybe you could get out another book then only with the right answers in it too. P. S. You better let me know tight away as my old man wants to burn it up. Beneath the Ax Synthetic Cigarettes When the motorcycle cop handed me a summons for speeding I tried to be nonchalant and lit a Beneath the Ax. We both passed out and Jupce Nominates for the Hall of Fame HENRY THE EIGHTH EcAUSE he never boasted of getting Havana on one tube; because he so thoroughly proved the asininity of the phrase: “Why don’t you marry the girl?”; but most of all because, thanks to an ingenious soup-plate hat, he contrived to look silly without imitating Rudolph Valentino. I was also charged with blocking traffic, imperilling the public health and halitosis. If you can get an ad out of this it must have been two other alleys. Flossey’s Non-sinkable Motion Pic- ture Machine When I was a little boy I fell out of one of my papa’s aeroplanes and bent my mudguard just west of St. Louis. I’ve been having trouble off and on ever since with the wave- length in my left ear and was worried sick. One evening on my way home from Turkey I passed a flock of troubadours and that gave me the idea. Now I earn from 10 to 15 (cents) a day in my spare time and the magazines are the easiest thing I ever sold hardly at all. I took pictures of my dear papa and mamma in a charming domestic scene one night after papa found a long hair in the soup and mamma said it wasn’t hers. Now we're a'l making movie comedies, everybody is happy again and the laundry sends the buttons back separate. Richard S. Wallace comicbooks.com