Judge, 1929-01-12 · page 18 of 36
Judge — January 12, 1929 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains four separate humorous cartoons satirizing early 20th-century American society: 1. **Top left**: A tiered fountain design mocking pretentious social displays, with figures arranged like a decorative monument. 2. **Top right**: A joke about a lecture at a women's club where a speaker requests ice-water, then reveals he plans to perform a dangerous "plunge" stunt—satirizing sensationalism and attention-seeking behavior. 3. **Bottom left**: A woman asking a florist for orchids (expensive luxury flowers), satirizing materialism and social pretension among the wealthy. 4. **Bottom right**: A dark joke about someone standing atop a pole "committing suicide" but actually "waiting for an airplane to hit him"—likely satirizing both the novelty of early aviation and contemporary morbid humor about accidents. The overall page mocks wealthy urbanites, their vanities, and emerging modern anxieties like aviation danger.
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JUDGE Kindly take rear seats until the presentation is over, good pipple. Mr. John Galswhoopee, the eminent survivor, was lecturing before a woman's club. “May I have a pitcher of ice-water on the table, please?” he asked the chairman. “What for, asked Coralie Gables. ‘No, to do the plunge in!” finessed John. The lid is on the under- world; throw out the drag-net! to drink? Design for a fountain, Ww “What's Bill doin’ on top o° that pole?” “Committing suicide.” “Ia he going to jump?” “Say, Miss! Ain't you got no orchids?” “No, he’s waiting for an airplane to hit him.” comicbooks.com id |