Judge, 1931-08-15 · page 10 of 36
Judge — August 15, 1931 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from *Judge* contains several pieces of social satire typical of the 1920s-30s era: **Top cartoons:** Mock modern consumerism and changing gender dynamics. The first shows a couple negotiating trade-in value on an automobile (suggesting materialism); the second depicts a woman demanding compliments on her new dress—both gently ribbing contemporary consumer culture and evolving social roles. **"Parody" poem:** Satirizes the popular "auto camp" vacation trend, mocking the discomfort of camping (bugs, hard cots) versus home comfort. The aspirin reference suggests travelers' complaints. **Bigamist anecdote:** A crude joke about a man forgetting his wife, implying indifference to marriage and domestic responsibility. **"Return of Conversation":** Defends conversation as still alive, using a lengthy bridge-game discussion as evidence—ironically proving critics' point that "conversation" now means debating contract bridge rules rather than meaningful dialogue. **Bottom cartoon:** Darkly jokes about domestic violence, with a man standing outside to avoid *appearing* to beat his wife—satirizing both hypocrisy and social pretense. The overall tone reflects period anxieties about modernization, changing social norms, and moral decline.
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JUDGE “Yes, I admit I like the new sport model, but what will you allow me on the old one?” “You haven't told me how you like my new dress?” Parody r’re tenting tonight at the auto camp; Give us an aspirin; Our weary legs a chance to stretch And cots for all our kin. Many are the bugs that are buzzing tonight, Waiting for a chance to light; Many are the thoughts we'd be better off At home, in bed, tonight. —R. C. O. A bigamist told a Pittsburgh judge he simply forgot he had a wife. The wife is just as well off. He is the type that would give her letters a saucer of milk and mail the cat. The Return of Conversation D287 believe all they tell you about this modern Critics have claimed, for instance, that the art of conversation is dead. People never discuss things any more. They arc restless (allege the critics) and must be eternally on the go—games or dancing or motoring or something like that. That, if I may be pardoned, is so much boloney if my own expe has ce | anything to do with it. Take the other evening when I had three young people in for dinner and to pass the time afterwards. Did we fall to play- ing some moronic g Did we sit down to the inev of bridg our gencration would have expected us to? i We did not. We discussed things. [: s the destructive critic We sat down to discuss things at eight-thirty-five, and we never once stopped our discussion until ten min utes of twelve. No, sir, not so much : card was dealt on the table. [7 And even after nearly three and a half hours we still hadn't decided whether 7 the forcing two, the Vanderbilt Con- | vention, the Lenz method, or Work's system was the most efficient way of playing contract. —P.C. Reel Story A Movie producer was thinking of putting “Hamlet” on the sercen. “But before we de gotta change the title to ‘Big City’ or something like that.” “I stand out here so the neighbors won't think I’m beating her!” 8 comicbooks.com