Judge, 1926-09-04 · page 9 of 36
Judge — September 4, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page from Judge magazine ("Obrien Outloud" column) collects brief humorous observations on American life, likely from the 1920s-1930s based on style and references. The jokes target contemporary frustrations: absent-minded professors (stock character type), poor restaurant coffee quality, confidence men and bandits, and obsessive dieting fads among women. One cartoon shows pedestrians on "roller skates" (likely referring to newfangled skating or mobility devices), satirizing modern transportation crazes. The "Condemed Prisoner" cartoon mocks prison meal complaints. The "Hollywood physician" joke references tinseltown's then-notorious trend of dubious medical practitioners. The "No Hope" poem ridicules women's weight-loss obsession—she climbs fences and scales multiple times daily yet gains nothing, mocking both the futility of crash dieting and women's appearance anxiety. The opening "Advice" column's central joke: stay cheerful through hardship, but *not* so much that you seem insane and get institutionalized—a darkly comic commentary on mental health attitudes of the era.
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‘Obrien Gutloud” Advice Le when everything goes wrong, And life seems most bitter, Chuckle when misfortune frowns, When clouds gather, titter. et SSE re rt ET | 2 a Accidents, reverses, ills, Greet them with a smile, Keep the corners of your mouth Turned up all the while. Find amusement in your grief, Through it all just grin; Don’t go near the bughouse, though, Or they'll take you in. fo) Since they’ve been blasting for new subways in the vicinity of the absent-minded professor's home he has dated all his letters July Fourth. fe) In Restaurants Sometimes we get coffee, half milk, but more often we get coffee, half coffee. 0 Painless Bandits are more humane than Our up-to-the-minute Hollywood physician annonces a little new 1 || confidence men. The former at arrival. least. knock their victims uncon- scious before they take their money. oO No Hope She scales all fences on her hike, In order to lose weight; She scales the garden wall at times, She even scales the gate And then she scales the porches. Up to the second floor; Then steps upon a weight machine And scales a little more. ce) ) The most enjoyable moment in every show is immediately after the curtain goes up and before everybody starts coughing. R. C. O'Brien comicbooks.com