Judge, 1929-07-27 · page 11 of 38
Judge — July 27, 1929 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several humorous sketches typical of early 20th-century American satire: **"Advantages of Matrimony"** humorously lists benefits of marriage to men—using a wife's absence as an excuse to avoid social obligations, smoking her cigarettes, appearing poor without judgment, and invoking family sympathy when in trouble with employers. **"Incident of the Road"** jokes about an absent-minded professor signaling cows to pass like traffic, playing on the stereotype of intellectuals being disconnected from practical reality. **"Came the Dawn"** satirizes overly sentimental, flowery nature writing popular in the era, then undercuts it with the protagonist simply rolling over to sleep. **The trunk cartoon** shows a departing wife and husband arguing about luggage; he claims he needs the junk in case he forgets the trunk key—absurd male logic presented as marital comedy. The page reflects early-1900s gender dynamics and satirizes contemporary literary trends and domestic relations.
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Advantages of Matrimony When you are invited to some place you don’t want to go you n say your wife is sick and at home. When you run out of smoking tobacco you can tear up some of your wife's cigarettes and put them in your pipe. People won't think you are not making a lot of money just be- cause you wear old clothes and are in debt. If the boss gets you on the car- pet you won't talk back and get fired. You can ask the j to please have pity on your family. i. O. Titompson Cradle of the Deep “Alas, [am unfortunate, Once said a skipper’s daughter; “Most every child is raised on milk, But I was raised on water.” Incident of the Road The absent-minded professor was driving along a country high- way when he got mixed up in a group of cows being led to pas- ture. Some of them mooed, so he put out his hand and sig- naled for them to pass him. JUDGE yor Ds Penits or Premistoric Vaupevitte The dinosaur’s egg. Came the Dawn The dark curtains of the night changed to a pearly gray, then to pink and at last to burning gold. A bar of crimson ran along the eastern hori A fresh bre the drowsy world life. Birds ig, insects hummed and the gay flowers danced up and down in the breez A new day with new hopes, new joys, new tasks to be done. A new beginning for everything. A new start for me. So I turned over in bed and started on a new sleep. Dora is not so far wrong; she thinks because a roadster has a Wirr—You're not taking all this junk with you! one-man top all the rest get wet “Yes, that’s in case I forget the key to the trunk.” when it rains, —R.C. 0.