Judge, 1927-10-08 · page 11 of 36
Judge — October 8, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("Why we have lodges"):** This satirizes married life and male escapes from domestic oversight. King Solomon—presented as an archetype of wisdom—couldn't leave home without his wives noticing. The joke suggests men need "lodges" (fraternal organizations, social clubs) as legitimate excuses to escape wives' surveillance. Solomon's solution of putting decisions to a vote is presented as proto-democratic, though the satire implies voting itself becomes another delay tactic—tabulation extends "far into the night," mocking both marital evasion and election board inefficiency. **Bottom Cartoon ("Pat"):** A chase scene between a cop and a man. The dialogue reveals the apparent pursuer is actually being chased—the man's "handicap" is that he's fleeing, which ironically slows down the cop. The humor lies in this reversal and the absurdist logic that being chased is strategically advantageous. Both pieces use exaggeration and role-reversal to satirize domestic life, authority, and social institutions typical of early 20th-century Judge humor.
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JUDGE Why we have lodges. | King Solomon Was Wise What would he do, then? Then, while the vote was being King Solomon had many diffi jerd “announce to the assembled — good while and yet be in with culties, of course, but he knew multitude: “I guess I'll go out how to solve them. : oa e tonight.” Naturally there would as any husband, he be many replies of “You'll do go out for an evening nothing of the sort plenty to spare before the re- : turns were completely tabulated. Suppose, 3 This is not only possible, it is wanted te and perhaps to get away from the wives. He some of “Go ahead if you want Plausible. The tabulation of couldn't sneak out; he’d be bound to.” 5 votes always extends far into the to be scen by some of the two Then Sol, always sensible, night, as any one who has ever thousand eyes which were con- would say: “Why not put it to worked on an_ election board stantly upon him. a vote?” knows. Pat—A man is a darn fool to chase a cop. “T ain’t chasin’ him! He’s chasin’? me—that’s his handicap!” comicbooks.com