Judge, 1926-04-10 · page 11 of 36
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# "The Week's Wash" by Don Herold - Judge Magazine This is a humor column with two cartoons. The top cartoon jokes about a store's "Alteration Sale" versus "Altercation Sale"—a pun where two business partners having a quarrel is presented as the actual reason for the sale. The column itself consists of brief witticisms about American life. Herold satirizes common annoyances: bad breath ("halitosis"), bald men's employment struggles, car salesmen's installation-plan pitches, and the prevalence of "near-sighted old ladies" in comic strips. He references cultural figures like Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw regarding child-rearing philosophy, and Don Marquis on inherited beliefs versus personal conviction. The lower cartoon depicts the "Van Goozles" using wax figures at their gate to simulate the thrill of travel—mocking shallow status-seeking or tourism pretense without actual effort. The satire targets everyday social pretense, consumer culture, and middle-class anxieties in early 20th-century America.
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might catch cold when they come out doors to show lady customers a bolt of goods by daylight. * * # It must be awful to be a comic artist and have to think up new jokes about near-sighted old ladies. * * * The bravest man in America is A. Schulte, who hasn’t written a letter in ten years. That is pre- y my idea of carrying on cor- respondence. xe * A perfect system for raising chil- dren may be developed by combin- ing the Oscar Wilde idea that the way to make a child good is to make nd the Bernard Shaw suggestion that one should never strike a child except in anger. There is perhaps as much real “So Half & Hearty are having an Alteration Sale?” neeke. os in neater et x ly fathers “Oh, no. They quarreled. They're having an Altercation Sale.” a ine By Taine 3 s used to say that every good man is henpecked. I think he meant that ia a good man knows he wants the fine THE WEEK’S WASH things of family life and will suffer » indignities of family life to get > D 5 the indignities of y ge by Don Herold them. A man may pretend to be at the head of his house but if he r | Que world is full of people The human form divine? Look has any sense he knows darn well right now with spiritual hali- at the folks opposite you in the street he the foot of it. He may boss tosis. car and laugh that off. a wife and two flapper daughters, + * * +" * but he is a simp if he thinks for a Doctors know what you tell them. Bald-headed men can not work moment that he has the situation eee in dry goods stores because they in hand. Nothing is more pleasing to the buyer of a motor car than to have the company broadcast ads setting forth the easy installment plan on which the car can be bought. es ee I have just discovered there is a League for the Fostering of Genius. ‘There should be a League for the Pestering of Geniu * * * Don Marquis said recently in Collier’s: “The beliefs of your an- restors have become your instinct; you don’t act from your own be- liefs as often as you do from theirs.” The answer to this is: be an an- cestor. Then your beliefs will some day become somebody's instincts and he will not be acting from his own beliefs as often he is from yours. There are more ways than The Van Goozles find that by installing several wax figures on their way one to be effective in this world. to the gate they get all the thrill of travel without expense. comicbooks.com