Judge, 1926-08-28 · page 16 of 36
Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page contains humorous illustrations and satirical commentary typical of early 20th-century American humor. The main cartoons mock social conventions and modern anxieties: **"Designed for Stay-at-Homes"** depicts a makeshift sunburn device—a satirical jab at people seeking shortcuts to fashionable tanned skin without leaving home. **The backburning cartoon** jokes about how sunburns make men's backs appear unusually large or distorted. **The dialogue sketch** ("Remember, Jezebel...") appears to mock miscommunication between romantic partners. The page also includes **"The New Webster,"** a mock dictionary entry defining "gloom" as a perpetually miserable person whose presence ruins any social gathering—a character type the magazine found worth ridiculing for his self-pitying attitude. **"Movie Limericks"** references actor Wallace Beery, whose tough-guy persona and distinctive appearance made him recognizable enough for contemporary readers to appreciate the joke about his intimidating screen presence. Overall, the content reflects period concerns about fashion, sunbathing, courtship, and personality types.
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JUDGE DESIGNED FOR STAY-AT-HOMES Contrivance for giving a week's sunburn in an afternoon. The way a fellows back appears to grow, as soon as it gets sunburned. “Remember, Jezebel, we've plighted our troth.” } “Listen, Monte—I understood all the time we were engaged.” ‘ObrienQurtloud” [5 the old days, the only one who knew what the ladies wore under- neath was the laundress. ce) ay Scale And this of some stations. oO Tf you want to remember things, tie a string around your finger. If you want to forget things, tie a rope around your neck: (0) ‘The old-fashioned girl And her old-fashioned beau Couldn't marry these days On his old-fashioned dough. O The New Webster Gloom. 1. A gloom is a person who feels sorry for himself for living. He wears a crape for a neck- tie and goes around with an expres- sion on his face as if somebody is continually pulling a porous plaster off his He is so sour any of the milk of human kindness he may have had in him has long since curdled, and curdled milk is cheese. A gloom can join a happy party and turn it into a funeral. If the members of the party are wise they will see to it that it’s his own. A gloom generally has a voice that sounds like a basso on a phonograph record when the phonograph is run down and needs winding. A man’s home is_ his pal but a gloom’s home is his mausoleum. When a gloom enters a garden, the humming-birds stop humming, the swallows swallow harder, the blue jays get bluer, the sunflowers droop, the morning glories go into mourning, the weeping wil- lows weep, the grasshoppers stop hopping and the frogs commence to croak, Loe Oo Movie Limericks This villain they call Wallace Beery, Has a look in his eye that is leery, And when he looks tough, And starts to act rough, The heroines all look so feary! R. C. O'Brien 14 comicbooks.com