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Judge — October 1937 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three cartoons and several humorous anecdotes satirizing social issues of the era (appears to be 1930s based on references to government relief and New Deal politics). **Top cartoon**: A man at a speakeasy door wants to give his wife supper, but she's been waiting since noon—satirizing Prohibition-era speakeasies and their lack of service. **Bottom cartoon**: "Mr. Levine" appears ready to hit his wife in front of company, mocking domestic violence attitudes and class pretense. **Text stories** mock: - Government bureaucracy (a bartender saying "Nuts" isn't ruled abuse) - Literary censorship in South America - A sleepwalking child's impossible feats - A Black laundress's sharp political commentary about Democratic vs. Republican spending - Cats as overrated pets The laundress anecdote is particularly notable: presenting her as politically astute while maintaining a patronizing tone typical of the era. The humor relies on period prejudices and casual attitudes toward domestic violence now considered offensive.
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TOMORROW ANO WOPEVER. | UY & "I want to give my wife her supper—She's been here since noon.” “Mr. Levine, only a louse would sock his wife before company.” her husband from a New Jersey bar. tender; the bartender, as he shelled out, muttered “Nuts to you,” and this the woman reported to the Beverage Com. missioner, suggesting that he revoke the bartender’s license. The Commissioner refused to act; “Nuts,” he ruled, does not connote “abuse and insult’’; it is ‘an expression of frustration.” 'N Patagonia, the citizens cat weasels, which eat orioles, which eat hunting spiders, which eat woodticks, which eat mountain lions, which eat the citizens. ‘THE theory that all censors are dopes has been substantially confirmed. A book of poems recently won a prize as the year’s best literary work published in Buenos Aires. Shortly thereafter the Brazilian courts reviewed the book, de. clared it obscene, and sentenced the author to jail for a year. One on the House ANCASTER, PA., boasts of a young man who has indicated quite early in life that he is inclined to go places —under the proper conditions. Recently, during a sleep-walking spell, he left home, walked across the porch roofs of seven houses and climbed into an opened window of the eighth, all without awakening. Which would be somewhat of a feat for even a hu. man fly to perform to say nothing of a seven year old as this lad proves to be. With such a propitious start in som. nambulism, who knows, by the time he reaches maturity it may be necessary for him to secure passports before he feels that it is safe for him to retire. A LADY we know says no sooner does she get straightened out politi- cally than along comes her colored laundress, and gets her all upset again. The other day, the laundress, a Mrs. Jeffries, was all steamed up over the question of government Relief. “I'm gettin’ mighty tired of this talk about the money that the democrats are spending down in Washingon,” she an- nounced, as she tossed the wet clothes into a basket. “What if those Democrats do spend a little money when they feel like it? And what I want to know is: Who left that money down in Washington for them to spend? . . . The Republicans left it there—that’s who,” she finished, and slamming the door, went out to hang up the clothes. The Office Cat ‘THis department recently acquired a kitten. We wish to state that any- one who thinks these animals are darl- ing, cunning, or in any other way at- tractive, is a dope. This kitten, behind moist, innocent blue eyes and silky, questioning ears, Judge comicbooks.com