Judge, 1927-01-15 · page 4 of 36
Judge — January 15, 1927 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three distinct pieces of humor: 1. **"When My Girl Smiles"** - A poem by R.C. O'Brien satirizing how different girls' smiles reveal their character (vain, gay, dull, cold), concluding that his girl's smile shows her teeth are missing—a self-deprecating joke about his romantic partner's appearance. 2. **"Recipe for Window Dressing"** - A humorous mock-recipe by O'Brien offering absurdist instructions for window displays, treating it as a cooking process with ingredients like canned peaches, eggs, and cat. 3. **"Ome, Cora, Beauty Parlor"** - An illustration showing a beauty salon storefront where women's faces appear cartoonishly distorted, satirizing cosmetic procedures or the effects of beauty treatments. The page exemplifies Judge's light satirical humor targeting beauty culture and courtship conventions of the era.
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JUDGE When My Girl Smiles HEN some girls smile, you see they're pert, Contemptuous or haughty; When others smile, you see they're glad, Or full of fun or naughty. When some girls smile, you see they're gay, Or worldly-wise or cold; When others smile, you see they're dull, Or innocent or bold. When some girls smile, you see their lips Are made just right for kissing; When my girl smiles—it’s rare in- deed— You see her teeth are missing. 2. C. O'Brien Recipe for Window Dressing Ts two dozen cans of peaches and arrange in pyramid for! tion. (Don't open cans.) Stir as little as possible while setting up cans, Add baskets of eggs and nuts, ing careful that none are cracked. Sprinkle with holly leaves and arti- ficial snowflakes in on. Remove cat from window. If cans tumble in doing so, grate teeth over entire business, Then simmer down, re- place fallen cans, remove fractured eggs and rearrange entire window. Let stand over week-end, and try new dressing following week. R. C. O’Brien The woman whose face was lifted beyond all reason. As She Is Spoke Abie—Papa, vat iss a nugget? Abe—A nugget, Abie, iss a lowlife —a gud ver nodding. They are now building apartments so small that the rooms fold into the walls when not in use. Fine, Judge Fine! He made home-brew, Did Oswald Deering. Oswald was deaf—but He got his hearing. Eliminating A and B batteries with direct current. comicbooks.com