Judge, 1927-11-05 · page 10 of 36
Judge — November 5, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page satirizes the "Younger Set" of the 1920s Jazz Age through contrasting generational perspectives. **The main cartoons:** 1. **"A Father's Heart to Heart Talk"** (Nate Collier): A father prepared to lecture his wayward eighteen-year-old son about wild parties, wrecked cars, and poker losses instead asks where he got excellent Scotch whiskey—revealing the father's own hypocrisy and appreciation for prohibition-era contraband. The joke: the generation gap closes through shared vice rather than moral instruction. 2. **"That Blazing Younger Set"**: A sardonic narrative contrasting "proper" courtship of the past (chaste gestures, formal carriages) with modern youth behavior—cocktails, dimpled knees, abandoning dates at 9:30 PM. The tone suggests moral disapproval of contemporary dating customs. 3. **"When good fellows get together"**: A chaotic illustration of young men on horseback, apparently intoxicated and rowdy. Together, these pieces mock both the younger generation's hedonism and their elders' inability—or unwillingness—to genuinely reform them.
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JUDGE Roger does all the cocktail-shaking for our crowd—he has St. Vitus Dance.” A Father’s Heart to Heart Talk with His Wayward Son I thought that it was about time that I was having a real heart to heart talk with Junior. He’s eighteen and I knew that if this Father-Son movement was going to mean anything to us I’d have to take him into my con- fidence. Of late he had been going around with a wild set of youngsters, and it was time that I did something. And so last night after supper I took Junior into the library. “Junior,” I said, as he lit a cigarette and settled himself in a large upholstered chair by the fire, “I have a few questions: ” “Oh, I know the lotta hooey you're goin’ to hand me,” he re- plied. “You're going to ask me if I haven't any self-respect. You're going to ask me what I do on these wild parties. You're wondering how I happened to wreck your old second-hand bus. You want to know how much I lost at poker during the last week, and you'll ask me if I don’t ever consider my future and the wages of sin and all that rot.” “No, Junior,” I said. “For once in your life you are wrong. I was merely going to inquire where you got that Scotch you brought home last night. It’s the best I’ve ever drank.” Today Junior and I are pals. —Nate Courier Woon ns ite eel That Blazing Younger Set once upon a time it was many many rs ago a youth called for his lady fair in a coach and four and they drove to a supper club and on the way he tossed ] and held a little gloved just an instant and that was love and was the perfect ges- ture and she called him a cad and gave him a slap and then for- gave him the way they do toda and the coach and four arrive and they went in you mean the horses uncle lindsley no dummy | the flaming youths and as the violins droned a pretty reverie he | took a kerchief in his hand and | placed his arm gently about the | waist of the young lady and they broke into a disgusting minuet | and later at the table he had a | white rock bottle and there was a j real cap on the white rock bottle and not a cork and there was | real white rock in the white rock | bottle and a pair of slippers peeked suggestively out from be- neath a bit of lace and not a pair of dimpled knees from under from under well just from under and she didn’t smoke and have you read this ulysses thing and he didnt keep hing for a flask and order set up after set up and they left at the unheard of hour of 9.30 and walked out under First Stupent—Have you (Continued on page 26) got a Thesaurus? “What do you think this is. ; —a Natural History Mu- seum?” iia Ea When good fellows get together. comicbooks.com