Judge, 1937-09 · page 10 of 36
Judge — September 1937 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains two cartoon vignettes and a humorous anecdote section typical of Judge magazine's satirical format. **Top cartoon**: "The parishioners gave him a new stained-glass window for his birthday, and he wanted a speed boat!" depicts a clergyman receiving an unwanted religious gift, satirizing the gap between donors' intentions and recipients' desires—likely mocking both religious hypocrisy and materialism. **Bottom cartoon**: "Mr. Von Zell will see you now!" shows a crowded, shabby office, appearing to satirize bureaucratic inefficiency or corporate dysfunction (Von Zell's identity is unclear from the image alone). **Text section**: A series of brief anecdotes mocking social pretension: a 105-year-old Austrian woman seeking citizenship, a meteorologist's dubious "discovery," a socialite importing American water to London, and an extended joke about a dynamite engineer's disastrous South American job—all targeting American upper-class affectation and naiveté about foreign conditions. The overall tone ridicules contemporary American social absurdities and class pretension.
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ancient one. An Assyrian tablet of 2800 B.C. translates as follows: “The earth is degenerating in these later days... Bribery and corruption abound .. . Children no longer obey their parents.” . SOPHIE AROZONE of Pitts. burgh, formerly of Austria, has aj plied for her citizenship papers. She did Not want to wait any longer, she ex. plains, because she is now 105 years old. he will get ‘em when she is 107. METEOROLOGIST F. W. Brist, of Memphis, has discovered a new law of nature. The Fall price of corn is inversely proportional to the suffering of hayfever patients! The explanation, we are informed, is that a low price for corn means a bumper crop. And a bumper season for corn is also a bumper one for ragweed. . CORNELIUS DRESSELHUYS, New York socialite, thinks a lot of American water. When she went to London recently she took along thirty gallons of our best American water. Lest the W.C.T.U. make propagandic use of this item, we add that Mrs. Dresselhuys wanted the water to wash her hair in while abroad. IF A manufacturer of explosives offers you a job as his South American trouble-shooter, sneer at him. We have just been in conference with a man who flies up and down South and Central America planting dynamite from Tierra del Fuego to the Gulf. Sometimes they send him to the mines in Bolivia, which, as he describes it, is the kind of place Sanka keeps you from lying awake and “The papi gave him a new stained-glass window thinking about. There are no roads and 0 se bi a no conveniences in Bolivia, and none of r his birthday, and he wanted a speed boat! the natives care. Hardly a city is less than 20,000 feet above the sea, so that your nose bleeds and your ears ring always in Bolivia. The altitude even affects the currency: you can buy a $200 Leica for $45, but on the other hand it costs $40 to see an American movie. The facts that decided us finally against South America follow: our _ trouble-shooter got a wire from his boss, instructing him to buzz up to a distant mine in the jungle. “Seventeen days by mule,” he says, “and there weren't no mules.” Strolling around town our man found the offices of an airline. They told him they ran a plane into the district he wanted to reach, and would fly him up next morning, $25 round trip. When he reached the airport at five A.M., the rain was steaming down. He assumed the flight was off, but there he was wrong. The plane stood moist and tusty, warming up. It was a mare's nest of loose wires and struts—you hardly could see between the wings—and it rattled and coughed in the rain. The other passengers were a woman and her 14 children and a lone Panamanian. - The two males hurried aboard to beat “Mr. Von Zell will see you now!” _ the children out of a seat. They found a Judge comicbooks.com