Judge — October 9, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon:** A Chicago husband reassures his wife he's "just going down to the corner to buy a paper" while surrounded by children—a domestic humor joke about a husband's transparent excuse to escape the chaos of childcare. **Middle Joke:** A brief exchange mocking overweight relatives at a wedding, using the dated phrase "puffed rice" as a pun. **"Cataclysm" Poem:** Satirizes a woman driver whose reckless driving ("crashes," "fenders shudder") is only resolved when she finally parks successfully. This reflects early-20th-century anxiety about women drivers—a common Judge theme. **Bottom Text:** Satirizes both gullible parents and pseudoscientific medical trends of the era. It mocks the notion that transplanting monkey glands could rejuvenate or improve children, referencing the 1920s fad of "monkey gland" transplants promoted by charlatans as age-defying treatments.