Judge, 1927-05-21 · page 4 of 36
Judge — May 21, 1927 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page satirizes Sunday customs and behavior in early 20th-century America. The top cartoon shows two men in an "automobile accident" caused by dropped Sunday newspapers—mocking the era's expanding Sunday paper culture. The "My Big Day" essay humorously portrays someone who acts ordinary on weekdays but becomes self-importantly talkative on Sundays, discussing politics, books, and high society while spreading newspapers everywhere—satirizing the pretentious self-importance people adopt on the Sabbath. "Churches la Femme" jokes about religious hypocrisy (mistaking an evangelist for a "laity"). The "Blue Law Sunday" cartoon depicts arrests for violating blue laws—Sunday prohibitions on alcohol and certain activities. Overall, the page mocks Sunday hypocrisy, pretension, and the strict religious regulations governing American leisure time.
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ONESTF8 /. GAA > “Automobile accident?” “Nope—dropped the Sunday papers on my bare foot.” Sunday school teacher—Why did the Lord stop work on the Sabbath day? Little boy—To look at the six- tcen pages of comics in the two Sunday papers he took. SKS Cop (to bootlegger)—Come along with me, buddy, and tell the judge why yer sellin’ booze on Sunday. FS Country people used to have old-fashioned boiled dinners; now it’s the diners that get boiled. My Big Day On weekdays I’m just an ordinary sort of a being. I’m not very important, nobody cares to spend much time with me. I guess that’s because I just try to be ordinary and discuss ordinary subjects. But on Sunday! That’s a different matter. Then I’m in my element. People tell me that I seem about ten times as big and important to them. That’s the day that I discuss everything brilliantly, the stage, the latest books, the League of Nations, Mussolini, the trend in real estate and finance. I reek with humor—joke after joke. I talk about the sporting world and the world of socicty. I know everybody important. I am ac- quainted with everything. Every- body looks up to me. They see me at my best—simply because I make an effort to please them. To indulge in slang, I am a heavy- weight on that day. I spread my stuff—all over the living room floor. I am a Sunday paper. —?P.C. Churches Ila Femme “Who was that laity I seen you with yesterday?” “That no laity. That was an evangelist.” Red Mother—How would you like to go to church with me today? Flapper—Why, who's getting married? Brive Law Sunpay— The Day of Arrest comicbooks.com