Judge, 1926-07-24 · page 3 of 36
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# Judge Magazine, July 24, 1926 - Page Analysis The main cartoon satirizes **magazine cover artists' selection of models**. It displays covers from popular magazines of the era (The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, American, Ladies' Home Journal, Snappy Stories, and Vanity Fair), each featuring illustrated female faces. The caption suggests that businessmen's wives are "passing on their stenographers"—implying wives are selecting which attractive female office workers should appear as cover models, presumably as a form of quality control or perhaps mockingly ensuring unattractive alternatives get chosen instead. The surrounding text includes brief humorous items about Henry Ford and Prohibition, a Cincinnati boy's firefighting ambitions, and an Indian fakir's theatrical mishap. The page represents typical Judge content: social commentary and light satire targeting 1920s urban American culture.
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AUG-6'28 ©ciBz07554 — LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS JUDGE THE WORLD’S WITTIEST WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST (For the Adirondacks) DRY and COOLIDGE SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926 A New York movie theater now under structure is going to allow its patrons to bring their dogs or cats in with them. So far nothing has been done by the S. P. C. A. COLD FACTS Ir is said that most automobile accidents in the Middle West are caused by cows grazing by the road- sides. In the East most automobile accidents are caused by flivvers grazing by the pedestrians. FORD FLAYS WETS Henry Foro 1s said to have done more for Pr ion than any other man in America. At any rate, he has made it mighty dangerous to start toward the gutter. A TWELVE-YEAR-oLD Cincinnati boy cluims to be the ‘kerchampion of America Ad. predict a brilliant future for him in the Fire Department. Tne midway of the Sesquicen- tennial is now called “The Gladway.” Those who have seen it believe “The Sadway” would be a better title A Juvce of the Cireuit Court of Detroit says the poetry of Mr. Eddie Guest simply radiates help- fulness. This might be called the triumph of meter over mind. FAKIR GETS STUCKUP An Inp1An fakir recently shown on Broadway has accustomed himself to having hatpins stuck through his cheeks. Evidently the feminine sub- way riders of India do not have bobbed hair, Business men’s wives pass on their stenographers—here’s what you can expect if cover artists’ better three-fourths start selecting their models. comicbooks.com