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# Explanation for Modern Readers This is a humorous column by Judge magazine's social commentator, likely from the Prohibition era (given repeated references to "corn liquor" and creative cocktail recipes). The page satirizes several 1920s social anxieties: 1. **Fashion pedantry**: The writer mocks "Beau Brummels" (fashion-conscious men) who criticized his theater review mentioning white flannel trousers with dinner jackets—then sarcastically suggests white knickers would be equally ridiculous. 2. **Prohibition workarounds**: Multiple readers submit homemade "corn" (moonshine) cocktail recipes—mixing illegal whiskey with cream, Coca-Cola, and molasses. The satire highlights how openly people discussed bootleg alcohol despite the ban. 3. **Absurd trends**: A joke about tennis played on roller skates with concrete courts mocks faddish Western behavior. 4. **Monogram neckties**: A minor design suggestion treated as potentially fashionable. The overall tone is irreverent social commentary on upper-class manners, fashion obsessions, and the era's widespread flouting of Prohibition laws through joking correspondence.

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AIG IH When I first went to college, an old friend of the family’s saw me walking across the campus and told them, when he came back home that I was “swelled up like a poisoned 1) I have somewhat that same feeling now as I look at this High Hat page. And T murmur to myself “Aw! T never knew fame'd be like this!” ..... / After all, success and fame are relative ..... probably John D. Rockefeller in his little office tly as happy as Tam!..... you'll like the sketches, too seeing when the Editor of Jupce asked me who I'd like to have do them I said, “There’s only one guy can do “em right and that’s Jeff Machamer! .. give him a hand, folks .... we.are now back in the studio. ad There seems to be great ment among the Beau Brummels excite- over my nawsty > remark in a theater review that “the leading man wore white flannels with a dinner coat” and T evidently made a sartorial faux paus as the aforemen- tioned B B's write in that it is absobloominglutely the last word in correct wear... .. F Well, by golly, I'm no Beaunash, I'm just a rough plain-spoken man of the plains, but I think white flannels with a dinner coat looks like a Shubert chorus on a holiday... ...Gosh, why not white knickers, too! fh My Ear-to-the-Ground Depart- ment informs me that tennis on roller skates is the very latest thing out West... . . . of course, a concrete court is necessary and I should say the head ought to be of the same material . .... a heavy pillow tied back of the belt ought to make the game easier, too! In order to keep faith with my drinking public, I simply must igga nore the shouts of the “belittlers” this wee and bust into print with ... After all, nto each life a few new beverages. as the old sayin’ goes, some rain must fall. on The gentleman from Georgia named “Phat,” who made the im- passioned query as to what to mix with corn liquor, certainly caused a lot of commotion... .. every time I've tried to duck out of the office the last week or so messengers have appeared with large bundles of mail containing “corn recipes” ..... We have selected a few that sound rather intriguing .... D. L. S., strangel enough of New York City, contrib- utes the first one ..... one pint of corn (Georgia or Maryland), one- half pint of cream, whites of two eggs and a few tablespoonfuls of Grenadine. Pour into tumblers about half full and fill up with Vichy Or Seltzer siarsveuers F. W. D. comes forth ith = won- derful discov- ery that “corn” ixes very well with Coca-Cola siarensredl Irby, formerly the Sheik of Aniston, Ala., says that “corn” and molasses make a great mixture... .. he says that you must use mo’ corn than mo'lasses and if you have no ‘lasses drink mo’ corn! The Montreal gentleman, who I mentioned last. week, crashed through with a very valuable un- expurgated edition)... as, for example, the “Summer Cocktail” bees 1 hooker of Canadian Club, » of a lemon and a dash of vadine .... the title of this drink was probably selected because it takes more than one swallow to make a summer. .... Here's another called the “Haymarket.” ..... 1 half Canadian Club, 1 half orange juice and the white of an egg (for 4 to 6 cocktails). he Speaking of Beaunashes and all (A : that sort of rub Ag & bish, I've got an \a\ Bs idea for a mono- (7/_ gram neckti should — say orl Lge \ cravat ..... it may sound awfully sappy, but Till bet if it was worked out right, with the mono- gram used as sort of a design, as “Mac” has it, and not too prominent, it would be good looking. ..... 4 Any tie manufacturer can have this idea by sending me a check. It takes a good skate to play this game! comicbooks.com