Judge, 1927-08-13 · page 5 of 36
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# "The Timid Vacationist's Summer Credo" & Related Comics This page satirizes anxieties of early 20th-century middle-class vacationers. The top section mocks paranoid beliefs: that unfamiliar plants are poisonous, vegetables from city hotels are contaminated, canoeing is suicidal, red neckties provoke bulls, and rustic well-water carries typhoid germs. The humor lies in exaggerating common vacation fears. The middle comic shows men's disillusionment—presumably about encountering only other men rather than women at vacation spots. "On Father's Day" jokes about domestic life: a wife won't write to her husband (busy winning at poker), women discuss invisible stockings and saxophone performances, and one woman jokes that if her daughter said what she thought, she'd be speechless. The satire targets gender relations and consumer fads of the era.
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JUDGE The Timid Vacationist’s Summer Credo That every suspicious looking plant or bush is very likely poison ivy. That vegetables served at | summer hotels come up from the city every morning on the early | train. hat entering a canoe is a reckless and foolhardy under- taking comparable only in foolish- ness to a flight across the Atlantic Oc NOBODY GIVES AG THAN THE LADIES — at displaying a red necktie or handkerchief is sufficient to enrage any bull, no matter how far distant. That the well is teemin er in every rustic with millions of typhoid germs ready to feast upon the innards of the unsuspecting diner. ALL. LL. A pedestrian is a car owner with a wife and two aughters. Fussy Orv Party—See here! Isn’t it your duty to take charge of any one found unconscious on the beach? ATER LESSON IN DISILLUSIONMENT Sentry—Halt! Who goes there? Fe, Rookie—N obody. UNLESS, POSSIBLY, IT BE THE MEN. Reus Sentry——Are vou alone ? . 3 Sex Stuff y . 7 On Father’s Day First Sheik—Did you write to your old man today? Second Sheik—No; I was go- ing to, but I won twenty bucks at poker last night. Grace—I hear they are making invisible stockings. Mildred—Well, I'll have to see them before I believe it. An excellent time to kill two birds with one stone would be during any saxophone duet. If my girl said what she thought she'd be speechless. comicbooks.com