Judge, 1931-02-21 · page 5 of 36
Judge — February 21, 1931 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several humorous vignettes satirizing wealthy lifestyles and social pretension. **"In the Lap of Luxury"** mocks the ultra-wealthy, with the author claiming he'd only truly want one luxury: moving houses when his furnace breaks. The anecdote about hiring a "colored orchestra" because his wife needed to mourn her mother satirizes performative status-seeking. **"Just the Place"** jokes about exhausted professionals seeking rest, with a punchline about spending days with a Wall Street friend—implying that location provides no actual escape from business concerns. **"Headache powders?"** shows two men exchanging headache powder, with one claiming never to have had a headache, satirizing either hypochondria or the placebo nature of patent medicines. The cartoons target wealthy pretension and 1920s-era patent medicine marketing.
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In the Lap of Luxury Wie one would do with a million If dollars is a moot question. such a sum should be given me, how ever, there is one thing that I most assuredly would do, Fine cars, say? Luxurious apartments of the highest quality? these things would not be my first thoughts. I would live a very simple life: a modest country | or two. I would have no ser since I believe that they intrude on one’s privacy. In fact there would be only one real luxury that 1 would al- low myself. Whenever a clinker got stuck in the furnace I would move away and buy another house. Then there was the man whose wife told him he ought to have a black band because her mother had died, so he went out and hired a colored or- chestra. Add Famous Last Words “Won't you join us in a little trip through Italy, General Butler?” “Avwright, what is it—formal or informal?” Ta) Just the Place 7ov think I'm all run down, doc xactly. You need a rest. Get away from crowds and business ind excitement. Go some place where you can have absolute quiet and re- A reggie ! I'll do it! I know just the n the countr, I'll spend a few days with a friend who has an office down in Wall Street!" The thing the average man has the st difficulty keeping under his hat is a good head of hair. He’d Have No Chance Jack Dempscy’s wife thinks that he may enter polities. We however, that his wind is not what it used to be. And a perfect three-ring endurance contest could be held in Washington: A flagpole sitter atop the Capitol, a dance marathon the rotunda and a filibuster in the Senate. “Headache powders? G’wan, I never had a headache in my life. 3 comicbooks.com