Judge, 1929-12-21 · page 5 of 36
Judge — December 21, 1929 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"The Taxi Driver to His Lady"** — A romantic poem by Ormond Robbins about a taxi driver courting a woman, playing on the idea that taxi drivers were seen as dashing, modern figures. 2. **"His Place in the Sun"** — A satirical piece mocking old-fashioned men clinging to outdated fashion (wire suspenders, polka-dotted waistcoats, etc.), suggesting they're relics of a bygone era. 3. **"Bringing in the Yule Log"** (cartoon) — A humorous domestic scene showing a cluttered apartment during Christmas preparations, with the caption "Could you come around December twenty-sixth?" The joke appears to reference post-holiday chaos and scheduling complications. The page reflects early 20th-century American humor about modern urban life, changing social customs, and domestic situations.
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JUDGE The Taxi Driver to His Lady | My heart was yours when first I saw You plunging through the traffic, | Regardless of the city’s law, | With imprecations graphic. ] When fenders gave before your drive ] And those on foot were lifted, ] I knew, my dear, we should connive, ] For you, like me, are gifted. Come, lo you're just the girl I | ] need— | | And life will never bore us; | Along the primrose path we'll speed And smite the ones before us! ] —Onrsoxn Ronmys | ] Twisted Tessie has been reading a | lot of psychology lately but she still ) thinks th defense mechanisms are | hinges on a | Bringing in the Yule log. | His Place in the Sun | The old-fashioned man who wore a i wire spring under his coat collar to { keep the lapels in place—who wore s teothpick shoes and white string ties | ! } costing fifteen cents a dozen—who de- | 1 clared he felt “slouchy” unless he | : | wore a stiff-bosomed shirt—who wore | “cutaway,” the two tail buttons of ch were between his shoulder | \ blades—who carried a mustache comb | . and a tooth brush in his polka-dotted c waistcoat—who regarded pajamas as 2 the affectation of a dude and whose t canton flannel Mother Hubbard came to his ankles—who carried small and crumpled bank notes in a t small-mouthed pocketbook—who wore | d an open-faced silver watch at the end r of a gold-plated ch is i s about to come into his own again, He | will soon be able to step on the skirt of the woman ahead of him. | e $ i ! And the Man Deposits The woman pays—if it’s a joint bank account. We cannot understand the people } 1 who say that you must have strong i - : | ankles in order to learn how to ice- {| skate. Our experience indicates that i what is needed is an extraordinarily i ‘ strong seat. iy 1 \ w It seems to us that the Russian-Chi- 4 ce nese argument over a railroad could be q n satisfactorily settled by allowing the | Chinese to write the timetable and let- ting the Russians call the stations. “Could you come around December twenty-sizth?” j 3 cComicbooks.com