Judge, 1926-05-29 · page 9 of 36
Judge — May 29, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page from Judge magazine presents humorous pseudo-historical commentary. The main joke involves Adam's response to God's voice in Eden—he adopts a stereotypical African American dialect ("Fo de Lohd, Boss, dey ain't nobody heah 'ceptin' us chickens!")—which the text treats as the *reason* Adam and Eve were expelled. This reflects the crude racial humor common to early 20th-century American comics. The page also includes unrelated comic vignettes: a shoe salesman dispute, a reference to golf's supposed "Neolithic" origins with a pun about "pants," and scenes of women in vehicles. The overall tone mimics popular pseudo-scientific histories (referencing H.G. Wells), treating human evolution and history as material for crude jokes. The humor relies on dated stereotypes and wordplay rather than sophisticated satire.
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The Outline of Humor Being a Plain History of Wit and Humor by Judge, Jr. (Synopsis of preceding installment) If you've missed the two installments before this it's really a shame, because they were aufully good! The last one told all about how life came into the open air and the Cainozic Period. Ain’t nature wonderful! Pandata” Rew re — Adam and Rib (later Eve) Fhatdade Wane Customer—I don’t wish that—I told you I wore No. SavesMAN—But the shoe you tool: off was No. 5. Il “Yes, it has stretched terribly.” Nor everybody, except the people +™ living in Tennessee, knows that man descended from a monkey which makes it a lot easier for us, so we can jump right from here into the Garden of Eden where we find Adam and Eve ducking for apples. Well, they were having great sport, as you can imagine, when they heard a noise and got so frightened they hid in the bushes. Then somebody yelled, “Come, come! Who's hiding in those bushes?” and Adam, who was even then known for his quick wit chat- tered, “Fo de Lohd, Boss, dey ain’t nobody heah ’ceptin’ us chickens!” Way Apam anp Eve Hap to Leave THE GarpEN oF EDEN And you can believe it or not (see Well’s Outline of History) that’s why Adam and Eve had to leave the Garden of Eden. Well, to make a long history short, things went from bad to worse, which brings us right smack up to the Neolithic Age, where man plowed the earth with rude implements. This (see Smilch’s Vari- ation of the Ardelus Complex) was the beginning of golf, and it is told how Neolithic man was asked one day what he went around the course in and he replied succinctly, but with a twinkle in his eye, “Oh, an old pair of pants! Her cousin’s in the royal mounted— (Continued next week—no kidding!) So she always gets her man. comicbooks.com