Judge, 1928-05-19 · page 23 of 36
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This is a humorous short story illustrated with Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. The narrative satirizes immigrant social pretension: a poor Bronx woman appears at the Schnittkinds' radio shop claiming aristocratic European lineage (exiled Count Raymond of Tripoli, connections to French nobility). She abandons a newborn there, triggering panic among the working-class shop owners. The family's response—consulting wealthy cousin Jake Schnittkind, a delicatessen magnate controlling the caraway seed and bouillon cube markets—mocks both immigrant aspirations to respectability and the absurdity of fabricated genealogies. The bottom panel features a Rube Goldberg machine credited to "Dr. Seuss" (Dr. Seuss's early cartooning work), showing interconnected contraptions triggered by a stranger firing a rifle, ultimately leading Officer Kelley to investigate. The caption jokes that any "good fellow" would ring an alarm under such ridiculous circumstances—a deadpan non-sequitur typical of 1920s Judge magazine humor.
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aL ] | wide-reaching cance took place in a LAUGH IS LIKE THAT! By Rube Goldbrick T week an event of poor but comfortable apartment dwelling in the Bronx. rgot, a mysterious lady ing to be the one time morganatie grandchild of the exiled Count Raymond of Tripoli as well as niece to Phillip Augustus and Clovis, the twin pretenders to Bour- hon thrones of France, Spain ind several less important but nevertheless not-to-be-over- looked states in the Levant, gave birth to an cight-pound baby girl named Reuben P. Schinaltz, All this happened in the front room of a fourth floor flat belonging to Mr. and Mrs. M. Norval Schnittkind, proprietors of a small radio shop on the ground floor of the same identical building. howeve| a got, and fact had never 1. prior to that day, when they found her, apparently starving on their doorstep, and asked her in for a snack. They had left her alone in the room mo- mentarily to wait on a cus- tomer, and while they were out you know what happened. (See funny illustration.) At the time that the event “You can believe it or not,” said Governor of North Carolina, “but I'm wait- took place, Rosa Sclinitthind, a first cousin to Mr. and Mrs Sehnittkind, was at the post office where she conducts a stamp-licking bureau for the convenience Soon after, s surprised to receive anu phone call asking her to hurry up to “Schnittkind Dove-rest.” as the flat is sometimes called, and as busi dull, veils not havi been worn since October, 1921. Rosa closed up shop and rushed home. The upshot of the hasty conference of Schnittkinds was. this:—The linittkinds. em- barrassed by the event and not quite believing Mary of ladies in veils. P was Very m Ss owas rather ts chain to nobility, decided that some thing must be done. So a night letter was dispatched, collect, to another cousin, the wealthy Delicatessen — King, Jake Schnittkind of Mil waukee. Jake was a man of affairs. He controlled — the caraway secd market, and also had a corner on bouillon cubes, And ev r his Norwegian chain of : mated herring the picklers pickled over a billion ated herring to his ve ing for a street car.” ng glory, with a fac “Boloney!” said the Governor of South simile of his face printed in Carolina. (Continued on page 26) UTTER STRANGER @ FIRES RIFLE) STRIKING TARGET ©) WHICH AWAKES MORAVIAN CHICKADEE © WHO DROPS SASHWEIGHT © ONTO PINE SPRINGBOARD ©) = STEEL BOLT@ POPS OVER , HITTING FLINT-ROCK @-THE SPARK IGNITING FuSE@ AND CANNON CRACKER @ EXPLODES WHEREUPON OFFICER KELLEY ® SMELLS RAT © and RINGS IN ALARM LIWE ANY GOOD FELLOW WOULD UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES g comicbooks.com Really DRAW By Da. SEuss