Judge, 1932-03-05 · page 4 of 36
Judge — March 5, 1932 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **"Foodsie-woodsies"** (top): A humorous poem by Forrest H. Graves mocking a husband's grocery list that includes novelty foods and brand names (Mumsie's Bread, Sunny Spread, etc.) rather than basic items. The accompanying cartoon shows a wife at a counter with a child, illustrating domestic shopping absurdity. **"Fifty cents for goose eggs?"** (right cartoon): A grocer and customer exchange about pricing, likely satirizing inflated wartime prices or food scarcity. **"Buried Treasure"** (main cartoon): Shows people crammed in a tenement building's elevator, apparently trying to reach upper floors. The caption reads "Lady, could I come in and listen to the Slumber Hour on your radio?" This satirizes overcrowded urban housing conditions and the era's new radio entertainment culture—suggesting people are so packed together they share neighbors' entertainment.
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Foodsie-woodsies I stopped at the grocery counter and took out the list my wife had given me. “DT want,” [said to th clerk, “a loaf of Mumsie’s Bread, a package of Krunchies, some G Sanny Spred, Ole Mammy's ‘Lass Orange Puddy, Bransie Buns and ¢ pound of Aunty Annic gar Can'y, Bitsey-bite size.” “Sorry, no Krunchies. How abe Krinkly Krisps, Oatsies, Malt Wheats, Ricelets, Cornsic Ponesies or Wheetu . “Wheet 5 “Anyth ; ters Chips, Cheesie Weesies, Gingie Bits. Itsey Cakes, Toofums or Dramma's De , “Tan't: det JOT said. toddling toward the meat department to look for teensey Wienies and a lex of lambikins, Forrest TH. Graves A MAN arrested in’ the Tennesse + mountains for running a still had never heard about prohibition. He must have been from New York. “Fifty cents for goose eggs? I always thought they w ere nothin’ Ll Buried Treasure Perwest Hoosee’s campai against hoarding certainly. is ting results, After listening to one of the radio speeches, our pup crawled behind the sofa and dragged out two slippers, a golf ball and a bone. New York's subways are carrying fewer passengers, But it isn’t because the subway ds are not trying. It required the present war to. im press on us what is implied in the ex pression “A Chinaman’s chance.” Let's build some battleships. [f we don’t need them at sea we can put Is on them and sell them to bus anies. We wonder if the gunmen who killed that gangster in a phone booth will be charged with putting slugs in a telephone. The President of today is just the two-cent stamp of tomorrow, In some of the colleg haze freshmen by making them study. Some motorists are now so hard up that they can barely keep body and chassis together. comicbooks.com