Judge, 1927-02-05 · page 3 of 36
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# Judge Magazine, February 5, 1927 - Analysis The main cartoon titled "Fond Father" depicts a working-class or immigrant father speaking to his young son, with the caption: "My sincere wish for you, my boy, is that you'll make a better man than your mother!" This appears to be satirizing gender relations and working-class family dynamics of the 1920s. The joke likely plays on the father's presumed low regard for his wife—suggesting he wishes his son will be better than she is, which is absurd since they're different genders. The satire critiques either misogyny or the class anxieties of the era regarding masculinity and social mobility. The page's other brief articles mock trivial social trends (expensive cigars, swimming records, legislation about wedding gifts), typical of *Judge*'s light satirical style.
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WEATHER FORECAST For Mexico HAPPINESS OILS WELL JUDGE THE WORLD'S WITTIEST WEEKLY “LOVE NES’ SPOUSE Ir is estimated that during 1926 the oyster bar at the Grand Central terminal of New York made cight hundred thousand stews. This_ is CRIES most as many as were made by the Eighteenth Amendment. DRUG CRAZED, SHOOTS WIFE A Canirornian fruit: growing as- sociation is offering ten thousand dol- lars in prizes for interesting letters Now is the time for some aspiring young writer to do a biography of Secretary Kellogg. about prunes. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1927 Tue: fossilized remains of an ex- tinet ganoid, or armor plated fish, has been discovered in Southern Illi- nois. It must have lived in the Chi- cago River. GIRL, 7, SWIMS ATLANTIC A ropacco manufacturer says that this country now has several good rent cig: The trouble, how- s that they sell at two for a quarter, Grorce Youse, victor of the Catalina swim, gives credit for the accomplishment to his Canadian trainer, Johnnie Walker. This should be a severe blow to the Drys. GANG WAR ROCKS CITY \ Bosrow historian says that de- velopers of western realty have ended the picturesque area of the passing of the Buff Not so the pictur- esque area of the passing of the Bull. KELLOGG WARNS RED PERIL A uit. has been introduced in Albany golden weddings will receive a pen- under which celebrants of sion of one hundred dollars a month from the State. memento would be a Carnegie medal. \ more appropriate comicbooks.com