Judge, 1928-10-20 · page 8 of 36
Judge — October 20, 1928 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page from *Judge* magazine satirizes wealthy country club culture and golf obsession in early 20th-century America. **"Dog's Life"** (top): A cartoon mocking golfers' hypocrisy. The Q&A format humorously exposes that wealthy golfers won't maintain their own yards but hire laborers to work in "broiling sun," while they spend leisure time on the golf course. It also jokes about lost golf balls being resold by caddies and calls the nineteenth hole (the clubhouse bar) a "filling station"—suggesting golfers are perpetually drinking. **"Questionnaires for the Querulous"** (bottom): A satirical interview format critiquing country clubs as pretentious spaces. It mocks: the fake "Tudor clubhouse" with Spanish stucco (architectural phoniness), wealthy women displaying expensive silk stockings for newspaper photographers, and businessmen disguising themselves as boys in knickerbockers to play golf instead of working. The restaurant cartoon jokes that even the greens committee can't fix bad food—another golf reference. The satire targets leisure-class excess and hypocrisy during an era of stark wealth inequality.
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JUDGE DOG’S LIFE Q. What | as this fairway be- in land devoted sing of corn, beets, lishes, apples, nd other foolish les. S. grapes fruits and veg Q. Do these golfers mow their lawns and weed their gardens at home? A. They do not! These men hire common laborers to toil hoes and rakes for hours in the broiling sun. Q. What happens to all those lost balls that land in the pond? . The caddies retrieve the balls at night and re-sell them at twenty-five cents each to the men who lost them during the d: Q. What is the nineteenth hole? A. A golfer’s filling station. ABERDEEN THE ANDES WORTH TWIN THE BUSH Antuce L. Lippmann \ Diiflarlsle “May I cut in?” Questionnaires for the Querulous The Country Club Q. What is that Spanish stucco building over ther A. The Tudor clubhouse of the Noovorcech Country Club. Q. Why do those stylish la- dies on the front porch cross their fegs and display so 1: panse of silk stocking? an ex- A. They figure that the Sun- day rotogravure might a moment. Q. Who are those little boys in short trousers and what : they doing out there on the grass? A. Those tired men in knickerbockers. ing photographers on the scene « are business They are a game called golf on the SLL ty “Waiter, this spinach is terrible!” “Sorry, sir—you'll have to take it committee.” up with the greens comicbooks.com