Judge, 1932-12 · page 6 of 38
Judge — December 1932 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two satirical pieces commenting on post-WWI economic hardship and Christmas spending. **Top cartoon** ("Self-Preservation"): Shows a family Christmas shopping trip where someone suggests bringing extended relatives along. The satire criticizes economic strain—families can barely afford their own shopping without supporting additional dependents, reflecting Depression-era financial anxiety. **"Naturally" section**: Multiple brief jokes mock post-war difficulties: lost war debts, dangerous football spectators, "alimony throwing good money after bad," and taxpayer burden from federal deficit. **Bottom cartoon**: Shows a husband offering mistletoe to his wife during Christmas, a traditional holiday gesture now treated as cautiously humorous—likely suggesting marital strain from financial pressures. Overall, the page saririzes economic hardship disguised within holiday tradition and family obligation.
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Self-Preservation F rumble seat rides I grow steadily wearier Due to the strain On my aging posterior. —MARGARET FISHBACK And this year a football) classic was any game that showed a profit. Here’s the Christmas shop. ping season on us again and not a decent line-plunger or package-carrier in our whok family. The most resourceful farme we've heard of recently wa: the one who left his son to run _ the farm and went away tc college. And it may be more blesse¢ to give than to receive as usual this Christmas, but it cer. tainly won’t be as solvent. “Well, you needn't bring the whole family!” Naturally HEN there was the husband who went shopping with his wife in a department store and lost her. He looked through all the departments and finally found her in a new coat in the fur department. One argument for reducing the war debts is that we won't lose so much when we fail to collect. And our janitor looks as though butter wouldn’t melt in his furnace. Football, we read, is only the third most dangerous sport. Unless you count all the spectators that get hurt sitting down on their flasks, The trouble with alimony is that it’s just throwing good money after bad. And if all of the taxpayers were laid end to end, they would reach about half-way around the federal deficit. comicbooks.com