Judge, 1926-02-27 · page 3 of 36
Judge — February 27, 1926 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine (dated FEB 25, '25) contains satirical commentary and a humorous cartoon rather than political caricature. The main cartoon depicts a couple on a sofa with a bird flying away through a window. The caption reads: "He—Darling, you seem to have changed toward me! / She—Well, I've been reading—that people who live together get in time to look exactly alike." The joke satirizes marriage anxiety: the husband notices his wife's emotional distance and suspects infidelity, but she's merely been reading that cohabiting couples develop similar appearances. The humor relies on subverting his dramatic assumption with a mundane, absurd explanation. The surrounding text contains brief humorous observations about contemporary life—hair-styling fads, snow removal costs, police-women, and thermometers—typical of *Judge*'s lighthearted social satire of the 1920s.
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FEB 25°26 “ ©ciBe939s4 — “*LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HE latest hair-dressing fad is to hide one ear and have the other expose chan This should improve our of getting a telephone num- ber by about 50 per cent. At a recent wedding the groom and the bride’s father disappeared and after an hour's search both were found under the table in the dining- It appears that there had been a slight controversy as to who was the best man. room, Grow fall in New York costs the ‘city one hundred thousand dol- lars an inch. Give them an inch and they'll take—the rest of the winter to remove it. HE River Shannon has overflown its banks and is said to be three miles wide in places. Radio fans who tune in on Irish tenors do so at their own risk. Mo xvef ourcities now have police. AVE women whose duty it is to jail mashers who attempt to flirt. ‘The theory being perhaps that it’s kinder to give the misguided youths thirty days than to let them alone and have them get life imprisonment. Te latest bit of advertising verac- comes from the correspon- dence school which advertised that after studying one lesson all of its pupils were fired with enthusiasm. He—Darling, you seem to have changed toward me! Sne—Well, I’ve been reading—that people who live together get in time to look exactly alike. HAPPINESS’? JUDGE LIFE-SIZE statue of President A Coolidge in butter was a feature of the National Dairy Exposition. He seems to have missed a great opportunity to spread himself. N EMBERS of the New York riot squad have recently held de- monstrations to test the efficiency of bombs loaded with tear gas. It is untrue, however, that these tests were conducted in the crocodile cages at the Zoological Garden. A* IENTIST has perfected a ther- 44 imometer that can detect one- one-thousandth degree of heat. Now we can find out if the janitor really turns on the heat. comicbooks.com