Judge, 1930-12-20 · page 8 of 36
Judge — December 20, 1930 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate pieces: **"A Future Diplomat"** - A humorous letter from child Willie Jones to Santa Claus requesting practical items (bicycle, punchbag, roller skates, wood) rather than toys, framed as preparation for diplomatic work. The joke is that this practical-minded child will become a diplomat. **"The woman who loves lamp-shades decorates the tree"** - A cartoon satirizing women who excessively decorate Christmas trees with lampshades, treating holiday decoration as excessive interior design rather than traditional celebration. **"Beer"** - A lengthy article by Alfred Kütter discussing beer's history, properties, and cultural significance. The accompanying cartoon labeled "How about this one, Joe?" depicts working-class men casually selecting beer, reflecting beer's role as an everyday beverage. The page reflects early 20th-century American attitudes toward consumption, domesticity, and class culture.
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JUDGE A Future Diplomat | ran Santy Cravs: Please bring me a bisikkle so I can get to school on time. Also a puncheng bag so I can get strong for moweng the lawn and a big red | gon so I can bring in stoav wood. I | need roler skates too so I can run erands faster for mother. Yours truly, Wituie Jones \\ And then there was the Scotchman i} who, for a Christmas treat, took his | | } children over to walk on St. Nicholas || Avenue. i} “T'll take the smaller one—I have to live in the house with it.” Beer Ne that beer is coming back we might as well brush up a little on the subject. Beer is as an amber-colored liquid of which it is easy to drink a lot. The average man can dispose of six to eight quarts or liters. It is impossible to do this with any other kind of liquid. Another characteristic of beer is that is covered with foam Beer foam seems to be a necessary evil which has led to a lot of abuse. For instance, it you don’t watch the bartender while he is filling your kettle he is likely to give you a lot of foam which he has probably been collecting for weeks. Then, when you return home, you have got nothing and the bar tender has your money. ‘This makes for Communism. The most approved method of handling the foam is to blow it off the top of your glass. Or, if nature has favored you that way, you can push it away with your nose in the act of raising the glass to your lips. The encyclopedia tells us that beer was first brewed by The woman who loves lamp-shades decorates the tree. the Egyptians. The Grecks and the Romans followed suit. That the Germans invented beer is a ridiculous myth. All they ever did for was to add pretzels and white radishe The Romans were responsible for in- troducing beer into Great Britain, which it is today. y arm, was then noways as great as The British promptly spoiled beer turning it into ale, which they serve the the w: serve ice water. The statistics about beer are very in- teresting. Thus, if you were to take all the beer in the world and try to lay it end to end you would find it very difficult. Every year, also, a gratifying number of brewers fall into beer vats and are drowned. In front of every brewery you can always sce thousands of men wh waiting to jump into their jobs. It is a well known fact that beer is not only a drink but a food. In Bavaria they make it into soup, with onions and pig knuckles. Beer contains all the vitamins there are. When new vitamins are discov- cred you will find that they were in your beer all along. —Atrrep Kutter are “How about this one, Joe?” comicbooks.com