Judge, 1929-07-13 · page 12 of 36
Judge — July 13, 1929 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis for Modern Readers This page contains two separate humor pieces mocking gender stereotypes of the early 20th century. **Top cartoon:** A domestic scene where a man appears to be escaping from his house while a woman watches from windows. The caption "Another big one that got away" suggests she's comparing her husband to a golf fish that escaped—satirizing both marital discord and women's supposed obsession with golf. **"I Know a Girl" (bottom):** A lengthy comic poem by Carroll Carroll ridiculing a woman who claims to love golf but demonstrates complete ignorance of the sport. She confuses golf terminology (mashie = flirt, bunker = real-estate salesman), doesn't understand the rules, and apparently prefers matching coins. The satire targets women's athletic pretensions—she claims interest in golf purely for social reasons (hand-holding, losing money for "good causes"), not genuine sport. The underlying joke: women lack authentic interest in golf; they participate only for social validation and romance.
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I Know a Girl— | She thinks the tee | comes in a caddy and that a five-hundrec rd drive isn't worth taking the car out of the garage for, but she says she finds golf the only sport she can actually tuke an interest in. She thinks the rough | is something to wear ] around your neck, that | the greens are very healthy be: | | full of iron and that a mashie iy a flirt, When I asked her | about her pitch shots she | said she never pitched but she liked to match coins. The reason she gave for not pitching was that the money al- ways seemed to roll nd get lost. While r of matching, she , always seemed to “What if I did make it out of proportion? guy's got to have a place to sit down, ain't he end up by holding hands and so she really didn’t mind losing a little money for a good cause. It is her idea that a bunker is a real-estate salesman, thinks the Vol- d Act and the Jones Law 4 and that trolley line. When I asked her if she'd ever broken par she said no but that he that sooner or lat would. But of that because her ther supports them all on interest and when he's too old to take an inter- she knows she y on, as she takes interest in every- thing.” —Carroit Carnoir comicbooks.com