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# Analysis The top cartoon shows a judge chasing someone with a birdcage, captioned "Hey! Come over here with that lantern, will ya?" This appears to be a visual pun about judicial authority—the judge pursuing someone, likely depicting a courtroom or legal scenario in humorous fashion. The right column contains two short humor pieces: "Both Missing" jokes about a couple's missing son and car, and "For Two-Car Families" offers absurdist matching-car recommendations (if one is a limousine, the other should be a hearse, etc.). "I Know a Girl" by Carroll Carroll is a longer anecdotal piece mocking a woman's misconceptions about cooking and culinary knowledge. The large illustration shows a formal dinner party, captioned "The waiter who joined in the laughter," depicting social comedy around dining etiquette.

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JUDGE “Hey! Come over here with that lantern, will ya?” I Know a Girl Si" thinks a cutlet is a small wound, * that a steak is something you stick in the ground to hold a tent that ea found in diamonds, but she pwn and rots a ys she’s been taking domes- lessons and is surprised to tic scien | i | | | find how simple it all is. It is her idea that a pantry is some- thing like a hat tree, only you hang pans on it. We got to talking about the differ- ent types of cuisine, and I said I pre- ferred the simpler fare. She said when it came to cuisine she'd rather sail on the Mediterranean than go cui- sine on any other water and that the fare wasn't so much more expensive considering how much nicer the trip was, She thinks a griddle is a conun- drum and that a kettle is a small cat in Jewish. When I asked her if she spent much time over a cook book, she replied that the stuff she cooks never takes long enough for her to read through a book and so she generally just reads the comic strips while cooking. Then I told her that some of the best French chefs spent years study- ing to perfect their culinary talents and she said she thought it was a silly waste of time. She says if you just read what they have on the labels of the cans there’s absolutely no trick to cooking, —Cannoit Carrott Then there was the chap who wrote his Congressman asking for the ap- pointment to Roxy’s. Both Missing “Where is my wandering boy te I wonder, near or far An anxious parent asks, and adds: “And also, where's the car?” \}) For Two-Car Families If one car is a limousine, the other should be phacton, If one car is a town car, the other should be country car, \| If one car is a sedan, the other | should be a roadster. If one car is as other should be nd-hand car, the ie The waiter who joined in the laughter. comicbooks.com