Judge, 1926-05-15 · page 7 of 36
Judge — May 15, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains satirical poems and cartoons mocking early 20th-century social observations. **Top cartoon**: "Young Wife" complains to "Albert Brown" about making fun of their baby—a joke about modern domestic life and parental sensitivity. **Middle cartoon**: An employer tells a job applicant he's hired because of "backbone"—satirizing business-speak about character while likely suggesting the applicant is expendable labor. **Bottom cartoons**: "Three ways to eat asparagus" shows absurd dining methods, including someone doing a handstand. This mocks pretentious or overly-complicated upper-class dining etiquette, a common Judge theme. The poems address modern girls' independence, mathematical absurdity regarding paper value, and judicial leniency—typical early-1900s satirical targets of privilege, social change, and institutional hypocrisy.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
‘ObrienQGutloud” The modern girl is game, it seems; She'll do just as she wishes: In y she'll do most anything, cept the dinner dishes. oO There's only one person who ean speak louder than a senator and that’s another senator. oO Noses Especially Pugilists as a rule i Younc Wire—Albert Brown! You stop making fun of that baby! ¢ terrible faces, ‘y have nice enough features But they're in the wrong places. By the Child Poctess oO Upsetting the Laws of { Mathematics Apsieer of blank writing paper } is lying on a desk. Of itself, ' it isn’t: worth much money—say about one-fifth of a cent. But now a poet comes along, secs the paper lying there, dips his pen into an. jukewell and Writes some verses Ujioli the paper. The ae of the ink used is about one-twenticth of a cent. | Now, by the laws of mathem: one would think that the value of ' the sheet of paper now would be the value of the sheet of paper plus the PLOYER—The reason I am accepting you is because I think you value of the ink. But such is not hace'a teeiof backbone, | the case. Both the ink and the sheet of paper having been used are | absolutely worthl Q. ED. oO Is This Justice? Judge (sentencing murderer)—I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until dead on the morning of and to spend the intervening time in jail. However, with time off for good behavior you should reach the scaffold by the middle of the month at the very latest. oO The best thing about a popular song is that it is not popular very long. R. C. O'Brien Three ways to cat asparayus. comicbooks.com