Judge, 1929-02-09 · page 22 of 36
Judge — February 9, 1929 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top cartoon:** A woman brags to Mrs. Golitely about saving money by traveling town-to-town shopping for bargains—satirizing the early 20th-century leisure activity of wealthy women who traveled extensively for shopping expeditions, presented as frivolous and extravagant despite claims of economy. **Main story:** A humorous tall tale about Caleb Collingsworth, a lifelong collector whose obsession escalates from cobwebs to wormholes to "metaphors." The joke peaks when his son Gypsum misplaces metaphors in wrong countries, creating "mixed metaphors"—a literary term for confused, incompatible comparisons. The story pokes fun at obsessive collecting as a hobby and uses the absurd premise (collecting abstract language constructions) for wordplay. **Bottom cartoon:** References a "First Mission" where an "American flapper" is captured for a harem, likely satirizing 1920s flapper culture (modern young women) or anxieties about Western women abroad, presented as exotic curiosities in Eastern contexts.
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JUDGE Mrs. Gonirery My dear, you can’t imagine how much money [save flying from in town to town picking up bargains! The Collector Caleb Collingsworth had been a collector all his life. Collecting | always been his hobby. As a boy he had started collecting cob webs, He'd gather them from rafters in old barns, out of old un used coalbins and sme | and he f mens off of old Doc Williger, who used to sleep out in front of the Post Office all day. houses, Next he became interested in collecting wormholes. | Worm- holes out of old fence posts, rotted logs and antique table legs. He kept them in separate boxes in his attic. One box was labeled “Round holes,” another “Oblique holes,” ete. Oblique wormholes j were his specialty. After he married he went in for collecting metaphors. He had a album full of them. He had aphors from every known country, and a few from some that never would be know Colorful metaphors seemed te terest him the most. M the metaphors had been used, but the unused ones were the most valuable, especially if they were tore the Pa phors out Scandina An imperforated met- He n't worth anything. a perforated metaphor from ania dated 1876 was worth seventeen dollars. When Collingswerth’s little boy, Gypsum, was nine years old he got hold of his father's album, gonian meta- nd pasted them in hor ow The Burma meta- phors he pasted in Afghanistan nd just raised the very devil, that, dear friends, is how the mixed metaphor originated. —Nate Connien Finst Mixion—IWe have captured an American flapper for your Harem, your excellency! comicbooks.com