Judge, 1926-07-10 · page 3 of 36
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# Judge Magazine, July 10, 1926 - Analysis The main cartoon depicts an "Unfortunate lapse by guest who has recently returned from a camping holiday." It shows a woman at a dinner party who has apparently forgotten her manners or etiquette after roughing it outdoors. The well-dressed dinner guests (drawn as caricatured men in formal wear) react with shock and disapproval to her behavior. This satirizes the tension between civilized urban society and outdoor recreation—a growing leisure activity in the 1920s. The joke suggests that camping trips caused people to lose their social refinement. The cartoon mocks both the pretentiousness of formal dinner culture and the "uncivilizing" effects of nature exposure on supposedly sophisticated guests. The surrounding news items cover Pennsylvania's sesquicentennial, Rockefeller's chimpanzee funding, and various social commentary typical of Judge's satirical approach.
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Cc ©cig70755% JUL = 8°26 LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS WEATHER FORECAST (For Philadelphia) TERRIBLE FROST JUDGE THE WORLD’S WITTIEST WEEKLY SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926 PENNSYLVANIA CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE object of the Sesquicentennial Pennsylvania. i veleby Wiest Ranpourn Hearst is suing a Los Angeles newspaper for libel. No libel genuine without his signature. CHIMPANZEES GO TO YALE Ax item in the New York Times £% states that the Rockefeller foun- dation has given funds for studying Chimpanzee life at Yale. [tis doubt- ful if a better place cowd be found, NTRAL An swe: A‘ American parrot that in seven languages i: s guages is being sent to Philadelphia for the Sesquicentennial Celebration. — So far no one has dared to tell the bird its destination, SIGNPOSTS GET LIT LLUMINATED signposts are now used in severg es to tell motor- ists where the: Other States use illuminated traffic cops to tell them what they are. Jo D. RockeFELLER is said to give his employees a new dime for addition to their families. es of birth control are becom- ing greatly alarmed. INDIANS BLAZE OKLAHOMA TRAILS Te Oklahoma Indians are said to at least one automobile for every family. Lo, the poor Indian! Blazing his way through the pedes- trians. N parts of Burma a man’s wife may be seized for debt. Burma, however, is a long way away. WHEELER TAKEN ILL UssoLtnt has been called the new M “Sick Man of Europe.” Dur- ing the Senatorial investigations, Wayne B. Wheeler was the sick man America. comicbooks.com