Judge, 1937-09 · page 8 of 36
Judge — September 1937 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains two satirical cartoons and accompanying text commentary typical of Judge magazine's style. **Top cartoon**: Shows figures around a globe, with the caption "I've been trolling around the globe for twenty years!" The satire appears to mock world travelers or adventurers who boast of extensive journeys. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts someone writing to a congressman, captioned "I'll send an open letter to our congressman! It's a cent and a half that way, ain't it?" This satirizes the common practice of citizens complaining to elected officials, likely mocking both the effectiveness and cost-consciousness of such complaints. The accompanying text discusses various social topics including wallpaper trends for 1938, decorating fashions, and oddly-specific local news items (sentencing in Paterson, N.J., and wrens in Gotham, Wisconsin). The overall tone is humorous and somewhat cynical about American society and politics.
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seller being the famous mango trick. It is the end. Kismet. GERMANY, fountainhead of the frankfurter, is emasculating this fa- vorite food of the tourists. The Institute for Sea Fishing is urging that frank- furters henceforth be filled with fish— to ease the present meat shortage. Which reminds us of what sustained life for the miners of Golden, Colo., imprisoned by a cave-in. A pipe was their communi. cation with the outer world, and until they were released, hot dogs were the only food that could be slid down to them. Now. that 1937 has made its way into oblivion, from a stylistic standpoint, advance showings of future trends are the order of the day. Latest of these is wall paper. Featured by the Wall Paper Institute, in a huge display, are many striking examples of the new note. Prominent among them are designs exotic enough to gladden the heart of the most ardent lover of the side-wall art. Quaint char- acters from Dickens will struggle for a place in our affections with more com- monplace objects of the day such as broken hearts and buxom wenches copied from tattoo marks adorning the chests of sea-faring gentlemen of the fishing fleets harboring in Gloucester, Mass. All in all, 1938 should prove a colorful year. To make it all the more confusing, a return to elegance and simplicity is the key-note of the displays, according to the men in charge. The predominating note, they say, will be dusty shades ob- tained by adding gray to any standard color. To be smart one simply must have a liberal amount of the wall surface dusty-shaded. What caused this mighty upheaval in interior decorations is something entirely too deep for the untrained mind to fathom. Maybe the. trailer influence had something to do with it. And again, it may be the Gypsy in us. Anyway dusty shades _ will hi in demand, we are -assured, JN PATERSON, N.J., three young chaps were sentenced to jail. Six months later they were released on pro- bation because they had read the Bible every day as recommended by pious Judge Duffy. Thirty hours after their release, on various charges, they were all back in jail. 'HE news that Mr. Carl Garner of Gotham, Wis., has wrens in his pants brings to mind certain other cases in which people we have known have had articles of apparel come under the do- minion of our feathered or four-footed friends. But first we'd better explain about Mr. Garner, in case you haven't heard: Mrs. Garner washed a pair of Mr. Garner's all the same as brand new trousers and hung them out to dry. Some seid poner Bea “I'll send an open letter to our congressmen! It’s a cent and a half that way, ain't it?” time later she noticed a nice-looking Judge comicbooks.com