Judge, 1929-02-02 · page 5 of 36
Judge — February 2, 1929 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces of humor reflecting early 20th-century American life: **"Industrial Ditties"** satirizes office work through "Switchboard Susie," a telephone operator overwhelmed by constant calls and workplace chitchat—reflecting anxiety about new technology and women's expanding roles in business. **"We Must Have Subways"** appears to be light social commentary about urban infrastructure and excavation projects, likely referencing contemporary subway construction debates in major American cities. **"Back Talk"** humorously depicts marital tension, with a wife criticizing her husband's driving of their new automobile. The piece satirizes both automotive enthusiasm and domestic friction over this exciting but still novel technology. The vintage automobile illustration and dialogue capture early motorcar-era anxieties about speed, mechanical reliability, and changing gender dynamics in marriage.
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JUDGE Switehboard Susie » Outer Office she encumbers ‘Yo handle telephonic numbers, But chatters, chatters through the day With some loquacious Mike or May, Indifferent to your delay. Hello, he’s out. Fred? .. Wrong number, please... What's that you said? . 2. we Is this you, Your crepe de chine... Is that you, Jean? 2. . Line's busy now... I'l wear my green... The's out of town... that clown... Mr. Brown... Vl be right down 2. . I'll crown Long-distance, please... a ham and cheese... Fight - ninety - ++. a silk chemise. . Poor kid—no dizzy wonder she is Her “line,” it seems, is always busy! —Antuer L. Lirrpmann Corstts 1 Gara “But how will she know you're “Oh, I just let the motor run “What is the nature of my trouble?” X-Ray Puorocrapnen—It looks to me like an apple dumpling. We Must Have Subways East Side, West Side, all around the town, down; Tom and Dick and Harry, hin and you and me, Standing” on the — boardwalks where the sidewalks used to be. -R. C. O'Brtex Did you hear about the Scotch man and his family who went to the theatre in a raccoon here?” she'll recognize my knock.” Back Talk My wife, I may state at the start, is an inveterate back-seat driver. Even the first: time we had the new machine out she oceasion to indulge im her ctionable habit. bickering with — the about the allowance on the trade- in, we had finally taken delivery on the new model. It certainly was a picture, and gazing at it recalled vividly to my mind stray sman’s talk, “Choice of five smart colors in Duco trimmings of finest nickel-plate . .. up-to-da lines 2... go anywhere in’ the After some company phrases of the s stream service sta- tions all over... 2 It seemed all that he had promised. Settlin; my seat, I soon got under way. Once in’ motion, the machine purred along in an even, ing manner. I tentatively sp up, to see if the performance would be as nd at a higher Suddenly my wi running true to form—touched me oon the arm. My enthusiasm quite dashed by this latest evi- dence of her annoying proclivity, I stopped and looked at her. “My dear,” she suggested, “don't. you think you're pound- ing too hard?—that’s how you ruined the old typewriter, don’t forget.” country with you... comfortably down in velocity. Har Syeri comicbooks.com ee