Judge, 1928-03-03 · page 16 of 36
Judge — March 3, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humorous naturalist column by "Dr. Theophrastus Seuss" (likely a pseudonym) featuring fictional or exaggerated creatures from Peru and elsewhere. The page mocks both social pretension and get-rich-quick schemes. One story satirizes a woman named Rosalie who freeloads at fancy restaurants, stealing flowers while drinking tea—working her way through Yale by essentially grifting. Another ridicules President Coolidge (referenced as "Calvin"), who apparently received an absurd gift of cross-bred purple grackles from California, highlighting how wealthy people accumulate useless status symbols. The final anecdote—about a bird taking an overdose of advertised pills and now paying another bird by the hour for help—critiques false advertising and consumer gullibility, a common Judge target. The crude cartoonish drawings and deadpan delivery create satirical comedy through absurdist exaggeration of human folly.
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