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# "High Hat" - Judge Magazine Social Satire This page satirizes 1920s leisure culture among the wealthy elite. The "High Hat" column mocks affluent vacationers at exclusive clubs during summer season. **Main content:** The lead cartoon shows a man in formal dress dancing with a woman, establishing the "high hat" (snobbish) tone. The column humorously describes resort innovations: floating poker platforms on water with ice, glasses, and umbrellas—allowing wealthy bridge players to gamble uninterrupted from shore. The author facetiously suggests adding cannons for defense and camouflage. **Other items** include humorous reader submissions about beach dice craps, cigarette sweepstakes jokes, and requests for Prohibition-era drink recipes using "Georgia corn" and "Syrup Liquor" (thinly veiled references to illegal alcohol). The sidebar "Motorist's Primer" and "Dizzy Dames" sections mock absent-minded drivers and women respectively—period stereotypes. **Context:** This reflects Jazz Age excess, Prohibition (1920-1933), and class-conscious humor targeting wealthy, frivolous leisure activities.

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JUDGE ‘> HIGH HAT Everything is very quiet this week along the High Hat front old town is practically deserted and all the boys and girls are trippir the jolly old watering places it must be admitted that the water in these here now places is strictly cor- fined to the ocean which only goes to show what a wonderful thing nature is oe coed Noticed a rather neat idea at one watering plac that is, it’s neat if you're a bridge hound . . they have small square floats big enough to hold four people, a tray of glasses, with a bowl for cracked ice, White Rock, ete. “sa rubber cushion in each corner and a beach umbrella in the center the idea is to get up a good snappy foursome, get the float towed out, anchor about a quarter of from the nearest living object spend the day uninterrupted... .. big flags are also supplied in case you wish to have lunch sent out from shore, Cs ed It seems to me this idea could be carried even further. For example, a small cannon, mounted on the edge of the float, to be used if any one is seen approaching it should also be adjusted so it can be turned and trained on the bridgers in case of a fight the floats could also be camouflaged like battleships to de- ceive attacking parties who have espied the tray of glasses .... then there might be a plank on one side which the players would have to walk in cases of “not taking out,” “revoking,” etc. ..... why the idea is limitless ..... . think what could be done with Poker Floats! At this same club I noticed a game of craps going on with beach dice beach dice are made of wood or beaverboard and are nearly a foot square there’s one thing about beach craps—you can’t lose your shirt and stay on the beach! pf Bill K., Jr., of New York City, enters the Cigarette Sweepstakes with the following snappy comeback é . “A friend of mine was singing and some one said to him, ‘Say, if I could sing like you I'd go in the ” I think you're out one silver cigarette case, Bill! Ce eee We are in receipt of a wail from the South Phat of Albany, Ga., says, “Did it ever occur to you that we of the Southern wastelands never see any Gordon Water, Cognac, etc. We need some recipes for making palatable drinks out of Georgia corn, Peach brandy, and Syrup Liquor.” Will some of our little readers kindly help the gentle- man from Georgia? ee Bill Netch, of Los Angeles, comes through with the discovery that the well-known Pineapple Drink is v delightful when embellished with a shot of Benedictine thanks, Bill! movies! The Six Best “Steppers”: “On the Riviera” (No show). “Black Bottom” (Scandals). “The Girl Is You.” (Scandals) “Ting-a-ling” (Cocoanuts). “Why Do You Want to Know” (Cocoanuts). Mountain Gaieties). BoP Greenery” (Garricl The S. E. X. S. E. X. was having it's first meet- ing of the month. It was a hot session and threatened to continue all night. The men had already dis- carded their coats and v« In every corner and on the stairs serious arguments were being pursued to an inevitable conclusion. ‘The scene was one to startle even the most hardened reformer. Nothing like this had ever taken place before. These wild days had been the cause of many mildly similar occasions but this one had never been duplicated. The outcome of the night of exe ment could not be foreseen. It omened a radical change in the con- stitution. The Society for the Extermination of Xylophone players was drafting bill to be read in Congress OISZY ADE They call her Sophia be- cause some one was always sitting on her. Judge pays $5 for each one printed THE ABSENT-MINDED MOTORIST Ts the motorist fond of driv Yes, indeed. The motorist very fond of driving. Then why has the motorist stop- | ped his car? has no gas. Why has the motorist no gas? Because he thinks the gasoline gauge is something to look at when the gas is all gone. | He has stopped his car because he | comicbooks.com