Judge, 1926-10-16 · page 7 of 36
Judge — October 16, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon - "Judge":** This cartoon depicts a soda fountain scene where a druggist compliments an expensive, temperamental soda jerker named Louis, calling him "the only soda jerker in the country who can juggle the 'Rainbow Milk Malt.'" The satire mocks the era's tendency to treat skilled service workers as celebrities worthy of praise for specialized tricks. **Main Article - "The Automobile Klaxon: Its Uses and Abuses":** This piece satirizes the automobile horn's misuse by drivers, particularly women using it to signal neighbors during social visits or to warn pedestrians. The accompanying illustration shows a couple demonstrating this behavior. The article provides humorous "proper" uses for car horns while criticizing improper deployment in residential areas—reflecting early 20th-century conflicts between new automobile technology and established social norms.
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ff} Darvcast—Yes, Louie ix expensive and temperamental, but he's worth it—the only soda jerker in the country who can juggle the “Rainbow Mille Malt.” The Automobile Klaxon— Its Uses and Abuses T automobile klaxon is a me- chanical noise-making — device, In the matter of expressing unqual- ified disgust for the humble flivver at the head of the long line of cars. which it is holding up, the klaxon is ideal. More so, when it is reinforced by several other Klaxons. It is also | constructed in just the opposite manner from a fall-apart cuff button, very good when used on weddings, New Year's Eve. Election Night, the Fourth of July and other convivial | It has also been termed, in various langu, a hellish thing. The thing that makes it go is a fool. A lot of people who own automo- The Klason should never, under biles never know where the klaxon any circumstances, be used for the islocated. ‘Their only interest seems following purposes: to be the whereabouts of the button rin front that your which lets it loose. To signal the To sound off in compliance with instructions of automobile club signs at curves and dangerous. intersec- imal the © OR LOVES YOUNG. DREAM, front of the house. to tions. wife at. intervals of every thirty Miss Gimblefinger, was having a To gently warn pedestrians aside. | seconds, which means, “For God's free feed with a drummer. They were That's not the way to make them sake, hurry up!” having mushrooms and the drummer jump. A woman uses it to signal to any says, “Ha! — These mushrooms. are To warn children, at play in the other woman on a busy downtown — tiny! Why, where I come from the street, that a ear is coming, street. mushrooms are as large as plates and The foregoing instructions, if car IL is especially fine for your neigh- grow at the foot of tr Adead si- fully followed, will result in long hor's sleeplessness, particularly if it. lence, and then Miss Pussy to the res» for your klaxon. Your life doesn’t is used loudly and stridently after he ewe: “Yeh, but where [come from, the matter. ¥ | The uses of the klaxon are quite apn varied. \ man uses it principally when in CHULDHOOD. SWEETHEARTS has gone to sleep. trees grow at the foot of mushrooms!” Marion E. Burns comicbooks.com