Judge, 1930-11-01 · page 12 of 36
Judge — November 1, 1930 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of This Judge Page **Top Cartoon:** A man inquires at a "Lost Articles" desk about a missing copy of "Ex-Sweetie," a publication. The joke plays on the notion of romantic relationships as disposable items one might lose and recover—satirizing how casually people treat romantic partners or how quickly romantic interests are forgotten. **Bottom Section ("I Know a Girl"):** This is humorous commentary on a woman's complete ignorance of American football despite claiming to find it "intelligent." The satire mocks her absurd misunderstandings: confusing halfbacks with dress construction, yard lines with laundry-drying, and football terminology with unrelated concepts (off-tackle = broken fishing line; touchback = returning borrowed money). The piece satirizes both the superficiality of young women's sports knowledge and, implicitly, the pretense of intellectual engagement without actual understanding—a common early-20th-century magazine trope ridiculing women's participation in male-dominated spheres like sports fandom.
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“No JUDGE “Did anyone turn in a copy of come in tomorrow.” Ex-Sweetie’?” I Know a Girl 1 thinks halfbacks are what they put in tennis dresses and swim- ming suits, that the yard lines are used for hanging the laundry out to dry and that sidelines are what actors say to themselves; but she says she thinks football is the most intelligent game. She says it must be because so many college men play it. At the game last week, after the second quarter, she said she could not understand how the game could be half over when the two scores were not nearly equal. She has a vague idea that a smash off-tackle is when your fishing line breaks and that a passing game is to let your partner start the bidding, that to pls is to register a complaint, and that a touchback is to return bor- rowed money. When I asked her if she liked to cheer she said she never did that; that no matter how ridiculous the team he wouldn’t cheer at them n there trying and s if she can't eeps quiet.—C. C. comicbooks.com