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# "How to Make Love" by S.J. Perelman This is a humorous advice column parody featuring S.J. Perelman (a well-known satirist) and his wife "Princess Veronica of New Haven, a full-blooded Turk." The joke is an elaborate mock-serious treatment of a ridiculous backstory: Perelman allegedly met the princess in a Turkish harem while flying as a WWI ace in the Lafayette Escadrille, abducted her, and smuggled her back to America disguised as Charles Lindbergh. The satire mocks overwrought romantic narratives and advice columns. The captions for the photographs ("I Couldn't Resist You," "When Dreams Come True") parody sentimental relationship advice, while the text describes their chaotic family life with children named after literary figures working odd jobs—a deflation of romantic ideals. The piece concludes Judge's series on "the Art of Love" with deliberately absurd, non-advice, poking fun at similar instructional columns of the era.

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JUDGE Sea Stories I just had such a nice, long chat with the captain. Oh, yes, we go across every year about this time. After all, the food on a liner can’t compare with food one gets at home. I've been dying to meet you ever since we left port. I can’t imagine how it leaked out that I'm McBlah, the novelist. I wish it hadn't. It’s been years since I last sat in on a poker game, but I sup- pose— I think it’s just too sweet of you to spend all that time ex- plaining how the captain takes the sun. Well—I've you all over! But, dear, [ just dropped into the bar looking for a fourth at bridge. No, I’m never the least bit sea- sick, The ticket agent said all the suites were taken, so we simply had to take this dinky little stateroom. We both want you to be sure and look us up when we all get back. —Wayne G. Hatstey 228 Father—Our Oswald has been expelled from college for cribbing. “Tam sure they had little to do. Cribbage was a_ perfectly respectable game in my da been looking for Feeding office workers, after the manner of a bird feeding its young. HOW TO MAKE LOVE By S. J. Perelman Tenth Lesson In response to frequent re- quests from readers, we present as the final lesson in this amazing series on the Art of Love two photographs specially posed for Jupce by the author, Mr. S. J. Perelman, and his wife, Princess Veronica of New Haven, a full- blooded Turk. These are the first authentic photographs of the well-known author and his “ball and chain’ and were secured only after much urging. The ac- companying figures in the first picture are the wardens of the Raymond Street jail in Brooklyn, where it was taken. Figure I, bearing the appro- priate inscription “I Couldn't Resist You,” is a worthy tribute from Princess Veronica to her distinguished husband, who, by the way, is a baron in his own right and wears the order of tie Star and Garter presented to him by the Lehigh Valley Coal Com- pany. The story of the meeti Princess Veronica and the 2 romantic one. The princess was formerly part of the harem of Sultan Abdul Humid If. Mr. Perelman, at that time an ace in the Lafayette Escadrille, chanced to fly over Turkey and saw the princess waving to him from a barroom, He was so impressed by her beauty that he abducted her and hid her in his ancestral home in Wales. Then, under the nom- de-plume of Charles Lindbergh, he flew back to America with Veronica secreted in the fuselage Veronica, unfortunately, feet, and her witty husband often remarks that she is of a splayful disposition. wife to him and even earns an extra penny now and then shag- ging grounders for the Yankees in the outfield. In Figure I1, the princess and the author are shown in their Manhattan ansfer, N. J., surrounded by their three adorable children, Thackeray, Michael Arlen and James Joyce. Arlen and still in bourding-school, but work sum- mers at Latonia as stable-boys. Thackeray supports his father and mother by working in a meat- market. All the literary and we predict great things of them. Is not this a truly charming scene, the proud father of the family embracing his blushing wife as the boys poker dice to see who will pay for the next round of drinks? How apt the caption, “When Dreams Come Tru is concludes this icon- group of articles. If you have any questions to ask, mail your grandmother But she is a good Joyce are boys seem to us in a plain wrapper and receive in return our big FREE catalogue, full of funny cuts and old saws. comicbooks.com