Judge, 1935-09 · page 11 of 36
Judge — September 1935 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page presents two humorous pieces about vacation mishaps aimed at 1920s-30s readers. **"The Biggest Vacation Scares"** lists common vacation anxieties: undertow dangers, letting a date drive, hangovers, unflattering photographs, food poisoning fears, and—most pointedly—the shock of itemized hotel bills. The humor targets the emerging middle-class vacation culture and its hidden costs. **"Dangerous Pleasure"** satirizes how vacations change office workers' personalities: Jones returns with an affected Southern accent, Smith exaggerates fishing tales, Peters adopts mountain dialect, and Brown's golf trip has corrupted his language worse than a "longshoreman's." The joke mocks how people adopt affectations from brief trips and bore colleagues with exaggerated vacation stories. The bottom cartoon shows angels struggling to send postcards from heaven—a gentle afterlife joke about vacation obligation (the tedium of sending souvenirs). The satire targets vanity, pretension, and the emerging consumer culture around leisure travel.
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aS an bod ity of Judge The Biggest Vacation Scares HE day you got dragged down by the un- dertow and almost yelled for help. The night you let the blonde take the steer- ing wheel. Waking up with a big head and an empty sun-lotion bottle in your hand. The first glimpse of those snapshots taken at the clambake. The night of the lobster dinner and your dream of getting stuck under the raft. The cold chill on seeing the total of your two weeks’ itemized hotel bill. Dangerous Pleasure ACATION certainly raised havoc with the routine at our oftic Jones went to Florida and came back with a southern drawl, Smith took a ates everyth ishing trip, and now exagger- Peters headed up into the mountains and came back talking through his ne Brown played golf and has a vocabulary that is worse than a longshoreman’s. Ye ruine station, 5 sir, the vacations this year certainly a lot of good announcers in our radio Ao cussIne Atvoweo “Where can I send the folks some souvenir post cards?” 9 comicbooks.com