Judge, 1926-10-02 · page 7 of 36
Judge — October 2, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two separate satirical pieces from Judge magazine: **Top cartoon**: Shows tourists in a desert landscape encountering what appears to be a couple on a motorcycle, with the caption "Tourist - Well, well! I didn't expect to run into anyone way out here!" The joke appears to play on the unexpected intrusion of modern motorized transportation into remote wilderness areas. **"The Trouble Maker"** (left column): Satirizes wedding etiquette and the persistent disruption caused by someone—described as potentially male or female—who causes problems during ceremonies and receptions through unspecified misbehavior. **"I Am An Anxious Parent"** (right column): A father expresses worry about his son's character development, specifically the boy's tendency toward crying and apparent lack of manly traits—reflecting early 20th-century anxieties about masculine development. Both pieces reflect period social concerns about propriety, gender roles, and modern intrusions.
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~ teeny Ss ‘Tourist The Trouble Maker am quite fond of weddings, per- haps because 1 have never been, I attend them whenever Iam afforded the oppor- tunity, for L enjoy the whole-hearted happiness of the bride and groom and the general gayety of the guests. I appreciate keenly the tears of the myself, a principal. bride’s mother. nt factor. There is one lways- creep however, which must a in after the ceremony, to mar the otherwise pleasurable enjoyment, and I am wondering if some means may not be suggested for the extermina- tion of the obnoxious pest who is responsible. I refer to that: individual, some- times a woman, more often a man, who, in one of those unaccountable little stillnesses which fall at times, grins inanely. looks vacuously upon the voice which carries to the ¢ young couple and, in a raucous “And may all your troubles be little ones.” M. EL B. everyone observe: present Well, well! I didn J DGE COUPLE’ OF HARPS! WITH wo STRINGS’ TIED TO 'THEM * FOR WOMEN ONLY Here is a qood hot weather aneedote to laugh orer while the husband is in the cellar looking for the gin. It con- cerns @ fellow named Voorhees who came upon his friend Ginchey in “Why. what ails you, Lefko- witz?” inquired Voorhees. With a sob, the latter replied, “He looked me right in the face and then coldly cut “Whoe “My barber!” moaned poor tears. inquired the first speaker. Doolan. Hanging was much too youd for him. ‘texpect to run into anyone ‘way out here! IT Am An Anxious Parent Aw greatly alarmed over the future of my young son. He seems positively lacking in any manly trait. I desire, above all else, that he should be a man's man, upstanding and cheerfully smiling in the face of adversity’s hardest. knocks. But TE must admit with shame that he is the ery-baby type. and it has me worried and distressed more than T can say. The slightest tion sends him off into wailing lamentations, of gulping -splitting crescendo provoci which run the gamut sniffles, from ed to the last sobbing whine. Is it any wonder that I am both- ered and upset? My wife says that I expect too that he will I heartily trust that she is correct, but it does seem to me that a male child, at the age of three months, should be something of a much of the youngster outgrow it. man. Marion FE. Burns comicbooks.com