Judge, 1926-01-30 · page 7 of 36
Judge — January 30, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical pieces about post-WWI social changes: **Top cartoon**: "How you feel in your cheap oil light overcoat when the wife wears her heaviest furs" depicts marital tension over luxury purchases—wives buying expensive furs while husbands economize, reflecting 1920s consumer culture anxieties. **"Que Sais-Je?"** mocks wartime profiteering and social disruption: department stores' wartime sales, men's dread of in-laws, barber shops full of women getting bobbed hair (scandalous at the time), drunken men, and college men's loose morals. **"Ballads of a Husband"** and **"Love Sick Dentist"** are domestic humor sketches about marital discord and romantic complications. The page reflects post-WWI anxieties about changing gender roles, consumerism, and moral decay among youth.
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How you feel in your cheap old light overcoat when the wife wears her heaviest furs. Que Sais-Je? fre all I know, department stores Are jammed with women wag- ing When “sales” appear. For all I know, cach newly-wed Regards his ma-in-law with dread And even fear. For all I know, the barber shops Are filled with girls who want hair crops, Thus ousting men. For all I know, the men who booze All night alway’ remove their shoes Before they en- Ter home at four a.m. Perhaps There really are sleck college chaps Who use their hips For nothing but a flask of gin... . There must be! they're so often in The comic strips! Simonetta nd Sunday-school Teacher—Who are the Gideons? Tommy—These here Sheiks and Whimsey Some make a — $+ @ 16 or @ 80 & others — 4 LN 4.T&4KT Ballads of a Husband For Christmas she bought me Some green and red ties; Her heart’s in the right. pl But. where are her eyes? comicbooks.com