Judge, 1927-01-01 · page 10 of 36
Judge — January 1, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis **Top Cartoon: "Triumphant Girlhood"** This Leo Feist Inc. advertisement celebrates women's expanded roles, depicting a woman as an equal alongside a man, holding symbols of prosperity (crops, milk). The caption "What will the tax-payer say to this?" sarcastically questions whether taxpayers will accept women's economic independence and equality—reflecting 1920s anxiety about changing gender roles and women's newfound voting and economic power. **Middle Section: Spanish Inquisition Joke** A brief comedic piece mocking religious torture, where a condemned man escapes by suggesting he be burned "in effigy" instead, then takes an elevator upstairs. It's absurdist humor playing on the contrast between medieval torture and modern convenience. **"The Girl Friend" Column** A monologue in exaggerated urban dialect describing a woman's frustrating date with a cheap, unreliable man who cancels plans and makes excuses. It satirizes both working-class courtship and male behavior, with the woman asserting her agency by literally hitting him. The tone is humorous but reflects real frustrations about male irresponsibility.
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TRIUMPHANT THE MILK ISSUE OF GOOD, CROPS Y PLENTY WHAT WILL THE'TAX-PAYER SAY TO THIS? Here’s a rich one about the Spanish Inquisition. The scene is a cheer- ful torture chamber about forty feet underground. The characters are the chief inquisitioners and a gent named Alfred, who is about to become a martyr. Says the inquisitioner: “Well, Alf, we're gonna roast you next, but we'll leave the choice of having it done to you!” “Well, fella,” says | Alfred, “if it’s all the same to you, you can burn me in effigy! So long! Pleasant dreams!” And he took the elevator up to the first floor. The Girl Friend “prt onya aypon an roll upya sleeves an I'll drain ya sum dish water. Get iss dirt now cause ima baby at nos er real estate, see. | “Is guy, see, sez to me eesez, ! ‘lissen, lil one, howja lika see sunthin to-night, hah?’ anna course I sez ‘awright show me’ onna countta I’m allays ready fer anythin. So ee blows aroun atta house at abow quartera nine inna rented rig at ee probally pick up onna corner cause ease so cheap eesaves is toothpicks, an eesez, ‘awful sawry, kid, buta- hadda importunt bizness appernt- mint anigh count geddear any soona.” Well at souns awrigh till I gets wise ease as tight as a rubba ban. Unnen ee chirps, ‘Stuff figh wanttutta takya to a show to-nigh, see, bud die gottin iss jam, see.” I buleave ee gottinna jam awright onna countta ease so stuck on his- self, Well, anywise, ee sez ‘neva- mine wheel see sunthin, howeva.’ closer tha longer ya with im. Ya no, mutes—millions in it! wen ya slap at guy’s face ee figgers ease savin onna facial an encourages ya. If eeda hadda tickets fer a show eeda showed upfa suppa so’s weeda not mist tha oppenin a tha theata. “But ee dint havva seats an ee figgered it ud be cheapera sit inna park. An ats what ee showed me. Can ya tie a guy likeat? Yacannot! Ya gotta paste im. Speshully when ce pulls cracks like ‘uts too badda zoos closed.’ So I’m gettin pertty sore, see, so I snaps inta it with *gowann, I no ya lion an I can’t bear ya monkey bizness,’ bud duz ee get Not at guy. Betcha at guy thinks a flight a fancy is wanna nem at went uppa North Pole is Sprin. “An away at guy tried ta butter me up yadda thought I wuz gonna swim the Channel. An I tells im to maka noise likea radio station an sign off. Ee juss laffs un sez, ‘Well, ya gonna givus a lil kiss goo- night, aintja? An I says ‘ya right all butta details. It ain goo-night iss goo-by an I ain gonna ya I'm gonna sock ya’ an with at I clouts im inna face with a door. “Well, remember what I been tellin ya an don go fer any balloon rise withoutta chaperone. See ya inna mornin if ya get up at early. S'long.” Carroll Carroll “Iss ee close! Annee keeps gettin Inventor—Hooray! At last I’ve perfected my loudspeaker for deaf comicbooks.com