Judge, 1926-04-10 · page 23 of 36
Judge — April 10, 1926 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains satirical commentary on modern American life circa the 1920s, plus an advertisement. **The Main Cartoon (top right):** A couple argues about home temperature while holding a thermometer. The husband suggests a Tycos thermometer will "settle the argument" by providing objective temperature readings, preventing heated domestic disputes. This is both humor and product placement—satirizing how modern conveniences promise to solve everyday marital conflicts through technology. **"This Age and Generation" Essay (left):** Author George A. Paravicini satirizes modern conveniences that paradoxically malfunction or produce opposite results: laundry mixes up orders, radios interrupt music with lectures, stock investments yield nothing, coal orders arrive as buckwheat, wives drive from backseats, phone calls reach wrong numbers, movie dialogue falls out of sync with film, and suburban commutes involve endless waiting. The satire suggests that despite technological "marvels," modern life remains chaotic and frustrating—progress is illusory. **Bottom Advertisement:** Kelly Flexible Cord product placement featuring a vintage automobile. The overall theme mocks 1920s consumerism and the gap between promised technological solutions and lived reality.
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Other games you can play in jail, with or without a rope, are Hide the Button, Charades, Hop Scotch, Jacks, Hari Kari, Shadow Boxing, Deep Breathing (if there's enough air and it smells all right), Cot Folding, Whistling, Ringing for Ice Water, Moaning, Lamenting and All Kinds of Guessing Games—Guessing When They're Going to Bring Your Din- ner, How They Happened to Catch You and When You're Going to Get Out. R.C. O'Brien This Age and Generation [=" the world a fascinating place to live in to-day? (You don’t have to answer, as this is just an in- troductory remark.) With our modern institutions, and our modern conveniences—what marvels have been wrought! Take the modern laundry. What magic. You send a shirt, five collars, and a bathrobe, and you get back a suit of pyjamas and a fudge apron. Take our radio (you are welcome to it)—you sit down comfortably to listen to Pagli- acci, and behold, in the twinkling of an eye, you have a lecture on salad dressing with a time signal obligato. Mystic, intriguing modem existence! In the matter of investments, you buy stock in an oil well. And do you have oil? No. A thousands nos in approved after-dinner speaker style. The moving finger writes, and presto —you have paper. You order coal, and abbacadaba, you have buc wheat. You sit at the wheel of your car, start the engine, and wonder of | wonders, your wife drives from the back seat. And the telephone. Mar- | velof marvels. You give your home number, and get the Municipal Dog Pound. We ask, “Will wonders never cease?” Well may we ask. Thecinema. Child of the Twentieth Century. Flash but the captions on | a screen, and a human voice repro- duces the words perfectly from be- hind. Think of it. Indeed, it is even possible through the same agency to keep two full reels ahead of the presentation. Then take those garden spots, the suburbs, flung like an emerald ring about the city improper. Rattling good trans- portation. Hic transit—to Latinize. You miss your car, and in these times do you wait for the next? You do. George A. Paravicini UZLIE O IABELS The Louse of a Thousand Scandals. JUDGE pays $5 for each one printed. How much more peace oe Since “We Mot t 7ycos aay Th ie Keeps us' out of m qa heated angoment “Discussions about the heat only make you hot under the collar. Temper and temperature should invariably be under control in a modern home. Get a Tycos Thermometer and settle the argument. Your dealer has them.” comicbooks.com