Judge, 1927-09-10 · page 9 of 36
Judge — September 10, 1927 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"Why Palma Passed Out"** mocks the decline of traditional pharmacies. Mr. Palma, who ran a pharmacy for years, dies of shock when a customer actually requests a prescription—his first in a decade. The joke satirizes how drugstores had become general merchandise vendors selling everything from automobile accessories to sandwiches, abandoning their original pharmaceutical purpose. The coroner's diagnosis of "heart disease from shock" is the darkly comic punchline. **"The Dressing Hurrier"** (cartoon) satirizes parents' morning routines with children, depicting a frazzled mother trying to rush her child to school while the child moves at a snail's pace. **"Leaves from Myrtle's Sketch-book"** humorously portrays "Cousin Bruce," a war veteran boring his hosts with exaggerated war stories (six days in a shell hole without water) that he presents as extraordinary, when the family finds them utterly unremarkable. All three pieces target American middle-class life and social pretension through domestic situations.
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eer Why Palma Passed Out “Heart disease : the result of shock,” said f the coroner's physician, folding | { HURRY! up his stethoscope and gazing at VI the mortal remains of Abner | | HUR® f | HURRY! eee Palma who had run the Fair Play Pharmacy on Main Street for many years. “Anybody here see him pass aw “I did. sir,” answered a lad who did general jobs around the drug store, changing tires, jerk- ing soda, ete. “S) physic “A oman came in at ten this | morning and purchased a thermos bottle. At cleven our next cus- tomer bought three inner tubes and a can of house paint. At one | o'clock two gentlemen selected some non-skid chains, two new phonograph records and a roll of camera film, Then it rained and business was dull until late after- noon. When the storm cleared away—it was about four o'clock, I think—a man came in, bought a monkey wrench and ate a chicken salad at the fountain. At quarter-to-five a gentleman came in and went up to where Mr. lad.” commanded the | an. . probably ( MAYBE | CAN GET Come IDEAS FOR NEW |NSTRUMENTS | OF COERCION OUT OF THIS SPANISH | NQUISITION =e HISTORY OF THE Palma putting size tickets on some bathing caps. GETTING A CHILD TO S HOOL ON TIME IN THE MORNING—No. 4 Leaves from Myrtles sketch-book = By Harry Grant Dart 4 HE handsome per- son reclining against the mantle piece is Mamma’s Cousin Bruce who has come to stay for a visit. He was a very brave and important officer in the late unhappy war and is now describing the thrilling — experi ences that came to him and telling of his valor ous deeds. He was in a shell hole six days without water and when rescued was mis: taken for dead When Cousin Bruce retires to the — pink spareroom, Myrtle’s mamma that ‘there w no mistake about the for six days is no, record ter and that Cousi thing to do with his rescue and that, — Bruce fought anyt anyhow, there was nothing about the booze and industry and could not incident that. was outstandingly new. — whip his weight in strawherry custard He will say that going without water unless somebody doped the dessert asked “‘Is this a pharma the stranger. ““The best in town,’ said Mr. Palma, pointing with pride to our display of garden hose, auto- mobile accessories, popular fic- tion, radio sets, phonographs and sandwiches. ““T want to have a doctor's prescription filled,’ said the stranger. “Mr. Palma clutched his head and gasped. ‘Haven't filled a prescription in’ ten” years, he softly said. He made a queer little noise, smiled contentedly and fell to the floor. Poor Mr. Palma—the shock was too much for him!” If all the heavyweights devel- oped in recent years were laid end to end they would look natural.