Judge, 1937-07 · page 5 of 37
Judge — July 1937 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis (July 1937) This page contains a "Currents" column of short satirical items plus two cartoon illustrations. The top cartoon depicts a car crash with the caption "Remember—girls—the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach!" This appears to satirize both dating advice clichés and dangerous driving. The bottom cartoon shows a man reluctant to leave his chair, captioned "But, Mr. Plotkin, how can I psychoanalyze you if you won't come out of your shelf?" This mocks both psychoanalysis (then a fashionable but suspect practice) and a man's laziness. The "Currents" column includes brief items on glass clothing, a suicide note, ancient tribal practices, and a Boston charitable home for distressed gentlewomen—miscellaneous social commentary typical of the magazine's satirical approach.
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CURRENTS ACCORDING to a reliable report we shall soon be wearing clothes made of glass. At the risk-of seeming old- fashioned, we must say that this is go- ing too far. Ordinarily we are ever in the van of progress; we are liberals and we have taken many new-fangled doo- dads in our stride but the idea of stroll- ing around in transparent haberdashery leaves us decidedly lukewarm. Ever since childhood we have been accustomed to a tailor or dry cleaner taking care of our clothes and the idea of calling in a window washer for this job is some- thing we can’t even contemplate. Away with it! A NEGRO named Lanier Fincer killed himself in Cincinnati re- cently, leaving word for his wife that he would rise from the dead in 1958. This is going to make his wife's gen- tlemen callers awfully fidgety; expectant, you might say. AN ancient Teutonic tribe made a practice of stitching the women's mouths ‘shut at birth, leaving a small opening to admit food. It is said that by an evolutionary process these women eventually learned to talk through their ears. However, the point cannot be established with any de- gree of certainty, because the whole tribe vanished during the middle ages. IDDEST charitable institution in the “Remember—girls—the quickest way to a man's heart * world, maybe, is the Home ‘for is through his stomach!” Distressed Gentlewomen in Milton, Massachusetts. That isn’t the name of it, but the official name, Fuller Home, doesn’t tell much of a story. When Miss Caroline W. Fuller of Boston died in 1931, she left a will that expresied all the pent-up loneliness of fifty years of invalidism. Under its terms, a large estate in Mil. ton was purchased, and the old man- sion remodelled. New baths in pastel tiling were installed, a vast sun-room of special glass built, and one whole wing was set aside as quarters for the ser- vants. Without venturing into lavish display at any point, the trustees adapted the building to the use of twelve wom- en, who could have no more luxurious home if each were wealthy in her own right. A car and chauffeur is always at their disposal, and gardeners maintain the beautifully landscaped grounds. Now comes word that the capacity of the Home for Distressed Gentlewomen is to be nearly doubled by the construc- tion of a new building. This should cause no fluttering, however, in the hearts of lonely women living outside Boston and its suburbs, for candidates are limited, by the terms of Miss Fuller's x — os will, to sesideats of that area. Nor " a Should the too ee steer paren oe “But, Mr. Plotkin, how can I psychoanalyze you if you tees had a long, long waiting list before won't come out of your shell?” : July 1937 comicbooks.com