Judge, 1926-02-13 · page 28 of 36
Judge — February 13, 1926 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes **1920s fads and youth culture** through multiple pieces: **"Sarah Spudd, the Child Poet"** mocks the era's obsession with child prodigies and modernist poetry. Sarah's published verses are deliberately absurd—comparing the sea to "the seat / Of papa's serge pants"—satirizing both pretentious "artistic" work and adults' gullible enthusiasm for mediocre children's writing. The temperance poem about wasting money at soda fountains is equally ridiculous, poking fun at both moral crusades and overwrought sentimentality. The cartoon below shows a couple dancing, with the woman sarcastically asking if the man has "no ambition," mocking the era's obsession with dance crazes and leisure activities while neglecting serious pursuits. The left column advertises *Snappy Stories* magazine, promoting college humor and slang ("blind date," "wash-out"), capturing Judge's audience interest in youth culture. Overall, the page gently ridicules 1920s crazes—child celebrities, poetry fads, crossword puzzles, and the dancing craze—treating them as passing absurdities typical of the era.
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If You Want to Know— FIGURES aren’t the only thing that the bright young college boy studies these days. If you want to know what a “‘blind date” is, or a “wash-out,” or a “campus kid,” or how and when vou play “Chaperons Wild,” consult the COLLEGE NUMBER OF Swapry Stories containing ‘‘Don’t We Have Fun at College?”"—the best of the new jokes and pictures from the college magazines; ‘Hot History” and “College Boys’ Sweeties”; many gay sketches by Held, Patterson, Plaisted and Stout; and a lot of good stories of college life by people who know. You'll find everything collegiate from co-eds to corn liquor in the current Snappy. Now on all news stands, 20 cents. home 6 terms if ‘beautiful free literature. A postal brings details. PISO’S forcoughs Quick Relief! A pleasant effective syrup 35c¢ and 60c sizes. And externally, use PISO'S Throat and Chest Salve,35c 5 vi Cork Shows ‘and All Amateur’ Entertainments. Dialogs, Speakers. CATALOGUE, FREE t ISON & CO., 623 So. Wabash, Dept. 21 CHICAGO Sarah Spudd. Little Interviews With People You Would Like to Meet Sarah Spudd, the Child Poet ARALLELED only by the tremen- dous sweep of the crossword puzzle craze and the tumultuous fad of burnt-woodnecktie-racks is the passion that is now sweeping the nation, affecting people of all classes, for the verse of baby Sarah Spudd, the child poet. No one has read any- thing else since that happy day when Sarah’s first poem, scrawled in her father’s bail check, was given to the world. Little Sarah lives with her mamma and papa in a quaint little flat in Hoboken. Here amongst the beau- ties of nature she is wont to let her childish fancies roam, and it is here that all of her masterpieces have been penned. Sarah’s first book, “Lillies and a Piece of Crape,” has just been placed upon the market, and from its priceless pages we are permitted to reprint here two of the creme-de-la-creme of the collection: The sea shines Like the seat Of papa’s serge pants In the sunlight. Ah, the elegant sea. Another and longer opus is this sad temperance poem, which has been adopted by the ‘‘Anti-soft Drink Association”: A Cutty’s Prayer To Dappy Dear daddy, me and mamma weep When you are out at night. We lie awake and cannot sleep When you are out at night. Why do you waste your hard- earned dough? Your debts are high up-mountin’. Oh, why do you each evening go To that vile soda fountain? Robert S. Wood He—I could dance like this forever. Long-suffering Partner—Oh, Douglas, have you no ambition? —London Mail etituwek ee aak& i... .. . comicbooks.com