Judge, 1929-01-19 · page 5 of 36
Judge — January 19, 1929 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: 1. **"Over The Hill"**: A poem about soldiers departing for war, illustrated by a figure (likely Death or a reaper) watching young men march away. The satirical point critiques the lengthy service commitment—soldiers may not return for years, evoking WWI anxieties about prolonged military deployment. 2. **"Free Lecture"**: A humorous sketch mocking a panhandler's manipulation tactics, playing on period stereotypes about con artists. 3. **"I Know a Girl"**: Social satire about an ignorant woman who holds naive, contradictory views on foreign affairs—she confuses geography, misunderstands political situations (Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua), and dismisses international conflicts as unimportant. The satire targets American isolationism and public ignorance about global events.
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Over The Hill Away he goes—the lad— With youthful footsteps spry, And now his parents, brave but sad, Are bidding him goodbye. laughing know not when he will return To grace his native fen, They only know their hearts will yearn Till Jack comes home They in. The years that pass may mount to four Or five or six or seven, And ere he opes his father's door May even reach eleven, It all depends, as he gocs to Yon Citadel of Knowledge, How long the lad will need to do A four-year course at college! Anriuvk L. Liremans Free Lecture If you want to hear a free lee- ture on the harmful effects of coffee drinking, dress up like a panhandler and stop the first Scotchman you see and ask him for a dime for a cup of coffee. Where there's sme there's apt to be a blindfolded test. “So your wife’s run away? How did she sign the note she left when she blew?” “As ‘zephyr, your wife.” Forward-looking Turkish husband adopts the football idea, “Henry! How often have I told you that the lady should always precede the gentleman!” A former bouncer gets a job in the penitentiary. I Know a Girl— She thinks good-will is Mr Hays, the Czar of Hollywood, and that Secretary Kellogg is in the corn-flake business. But she’s “absolutely fascinated by foreign affairs.” She says she doesn’t see why we should bother our heads about those South and Central Ameri cans when they do nothing but Pan-America. She thinks Paraguay is what y put on the top of jelly- you know, that white stuff that’s like wax"—that Brazil is a trade name for a piece of feminine wearing apparel, and that Peru is a girl’s name, short for Prudence. She says she hears there’s a war going on down there some- where and that they're fighting over the Andes. If they need any extra ones to fight over she'll send her Aunt Harriet. That's the way she is. “Witt She thinks Nica a Greek bootlegger, and that the United States Marines, headed by this man, Sandino, are helping the police protect the beer rack She says some derstand the foreign affairs. Sh understands there’s not going to be any more war and that anyone who tries to start one will find himself in a lot of trouble, bec other nations will go right to war and stop the war immediately. She's got it pretty straight. —C. C. people don't un- complications of ays she rause all the comicbooks.com