Judge, 1937-03 · page 10 of 37
Judge — March 1937 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Cartoon Analysis This is a single-panel cartoon from Judge magazine depicting a scene inside a church or cathedral (indicated by the Gothic arches). A woman in an elegant dress is introducing a disheveled, poorly-dressed man to other well-dressed parishioners, with the caption: "It's all right! I'm just minding him for a friend!" **The satire**: The joke plays on class distinctions and social embarrassment. The woman is attempting to excuse the man's obviously unsuitable appearance and presence among the church's respectable attendees by claiming temporary responsibility—implying she's merely "babysitting" him rather than that he actually belongs in such refined company. The humor derives from the awkwardness of bringing an underdressed person into an exclusive social setting, and the woman's somewhat defensive explanation that reveals her awareness of the social impropriety. It satirizes both class consciousness and the sometimes absurd social conventions of the era that Judge's readers would have recognized.
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sick of cars whizzing over those manhole covers clackety-clack all day and the best part of the night and were out to sto) the nuisance if it unseated every bicycle rider in town. Considerable horn-tooting at the next gas station finally aroused the attendant who came out of his hutch long enough to confirm the theory for us. “Yeah,” he said, “people ‘round here pretty fed up on noisy tourists.” After that we didn’t toot the horn any more. The most refreshing news in many a moon comes from Memphis, Tenn. John Galella, a lawyer, left his office for a mo- ment during a conference with a client. ‘When he returned, with papers to sign, he found the client pounding himself on the head with a lead paperweight. The client saw Galella al Pnocked him down; then he tried to brain him with a chair. Attorney Galella went to the hospital. ‘We know a New Englander. He comes from Boston, the Hub of the Universe. People who have never been in Boston will take this matter lightly; but such peo- ple had better watch out. ‘ Knowing a New Englander is no laughing matter. This one of ours pro- nounces “‘car,”” to rhyme with “ma,” and says “‘lawr,”’ for “law.” He has’a set of ethics according to which everything on earth is either Good, or Bad. American food, he says, is Good; but this turns out not to include Southern food or Western. He is certain that the Chinese put rats’ tails in everything they cook, and he su- 5 Italians of the same vice; the French and the Spaniards don’t use rats, but they are Bad; all this makes eating at restaurants with him difficult. He has a time with his car, too. If he finds that the oil hasn't been changed for “It’s all right! I’m just minding him for a friend!” comicbooks.com