Judge, 1929-01-26 · page 8 of 34
Judge — January 26, 1929 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate humor pieces: **"I Know a Girl"** mocks a pretentious young woman who affects intellectual sophistication (mentioning psychoanalysis, Freud, "libido") while remaining fundamentally shallow. The satire targets 1920s-era pseudo-intellectualism among women adopting fashionable psychological jargon without genuine understanding. **"Auto Intoxication"** is a whimsical poem imagining being a motor car—likely satirizing the era's growing automobile obsession and the escapist fantasies it inspired. **"Added Insult"** is a brief joke about tolerating a man's habit of checking his watch during conversation, implying his rudeness compounds an already annoying situation. The illustration shows a medieval-costumed figure addressing someone, referencing "poor puss is dead" and a "Troubadour"—suggesting romantic or period-piece melodrama being mocked.
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JUDGE | | | | | “We ain't got any time ta talk te | Auto Intoxication I would T were a motor car When blow the winter breezes, When strums the North Wind his | And all creation freezes. Oh, then Td be as gay and free As Harlequin or Pierrot, | Especially when the mercury Descended close to zero. I would not loll on some atoll Way down near the equator, For there I'd get no alcohol Poured down my radiator! —Artuve L. Lirpwanxn Added Insult We don’t mind if a man takes his watch out when we're talking | to him, but we do hate to have | him take it out and wind it. han, Hank. There's train every ex son their tracks.” I Know a Girl She thinks a psycho-analyst is aman whe rides a bi le, that Freud iy the way the are for breakfast and that inhibitions are entrances to exhibitic but she says she's simply mad about the subconscious mind. Mad is Bh When 1 told ber she had an inferiority complex she said) she Was sure hers was od cas canny school girl's. as she'd been asi Palin Olive soap ever since she was six. She thinks neuroses are buds, that) illusions are people who imagine they are sick and that libide She actually had ab plate made saying “Ex-libid She pasted it in the telephone book. going to be sexe-am ized to find out what's wrong with her When I told her she'd better see an alien ist she said) she wouldn't: patron ize a foreigner whe came over here to starve out one own labor, She's sure there must be plenty of good native-t Ainericans who can do the just ay well After Pd told her that an alien ist was one who lad explored the innermost reeesses of the brain home with didn’t care how much he'd traveled or where he lived she was going te consult an American anyway and was perfeetly Io she said s -Camnonn Cantor “Good! There's a Troubadour right under the win comicbooks.com