Judge, 1929-08-31 · page 4 of 36
Judge — August 31, 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several satirical cartoons and humorous pieces typical of Judge magazine's style. The top section shows "Fruits of Labor" depicting "The hatmaker" - various cartoon scenes of workers and daily life observations. The main featured piece is "The Meanest Man in the World," a joke by R.C. O'Brien about a miserly fellow who died and left instructions to his executor to search through his papers for hidden lucky tickets, ensuring the serial numbers matched contests - the joke being his obsession with winning prizes even in death. Below is a brief exchange between "Willie" and "Pa" about a "grasshopper" (a lawn mower), showing typical domestic humor. The bottom illustration shows Sherlock Holmes "mislaying his collar button" - a humorous reference to the famous detective in an undignified domestic situation surrounded by chaos.
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JUDGE —————— More Things I’m Not Inter- | ested In Laundries that do not sew on buttons .... women who do... . the art of radio announcing... . People who try to ma guess their identity over th phone... . visitors from back home . dress reform for men. victure house masters +++. trains without z boats with- out bars... . pri TIN... after dinner speakers... . ban quets ... . studio parties 6... house warmings. Men who mix salad dressing at the table... . overnight bags «notes dropped by endurance fliers... . notes due in thirty days... . second hand auto- mobiles .... trolley tokens... slave bracelets... . the good old songs of yesterday .. . . opera clowns with broken hearts . «+ clowns with diamond shirt studs... . the life of the party and people who call a spade a spade, —Canrnont Cannon Add Destinations The way of all flesh—to a re- ducing parlor. Dora is with us « thinks that Elinor Gly picnic woods, He's a big business man if he talks golf at the office and busi- ness on the links. Freirs or Laon The hatmaker. The Meanest Man in the World An old fellow: recently died and cut off his son with one dollar and left a postscript in his will telling the executor to look in all the papers running lucky buck contests to see that the serial number didn’t correspond to that in any of them. —R. C. O'Briex Willie—Pa, what is a grass- hopper Pa—That danged dull lawn mower of ours! Sherlock Holmes, world-famous sleuth, mislays his collar button. comicbooks.com