Judge — May 14, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two satirical cartoons about divorce and language. **Top cartoon:** A judge presides over two people studying French together. The joke plays on "divorce" sounding like French: one person explains they're studying French "so I can read my divorce," suggesting divorce documents are incomprehensible (like a foreign language) or that divorce itself is a French/European concept Americans find alien. **Bottom cartoon:** Shows what appears to be a boxing or fighting scene with multiple figures tumbling. The caption references "something snappy to say in dis Mike," likely a pun on a boxer's name (possibly Mike Donlin, a contemporary sports figure), though the exact reference is unclear. Both cartoons mock American legal proceedings and contemporary culture through wordplay and physical comedy typical of Judge's satirical style.