Judge, 1929-07-06 · page 17 of 36
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This is humor based on early 20th-century gender stereotypes. The unnamed narrator describes a young woman who is comically ignorant of sailing and maritime vocabulary—confusing "skiff" with theatrical sketches, "starboard" with food, "tillers" with dance units, and "luffing" with an embarrassing activity. The satire targets both the woman's lack of knowledge and the narrator's condescending attitude toward her. The punchline emphasizes she's "all at sea"—a double meaning implying both nautical confusion and general bewilderment. The lower cartoon about a minister converting a church steeple into a megaphone is separate, commenting on religious outreach methods. The humor reflects period assumptions about women's unsuitability for traditionally masculine pursuits like sailing, though presented in the gossipy, anecdotal style typical of *Judge* magazine's social satire.
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I Know a Girl— She thinks a skiff is one of those funny short) scenes. in’ a revue and that the port-side is France, daffy about be who sail them—s ter. In fact, she’s just parcel of salt water daffy. When I told her [ was going to the Maritime Provinces of Canada for my vacation she said: “Ol 1 your time has come to marry?" She wa know if everybody in went there for that purpose. She thinks starboard is good food, that yaw is puthern ex pression a is to stick out at the sides. I asked her if she knew any nautical stories and she said she'd heard a lot of them but she forgot them as fast as she heard them and besides it would embar- » says she's just so you f rass her, she said, to tell me those kind of stor She said she thought a girl ought te have some reserve. JUDGE Barrenen Boxen—Gosh! The way that guy can hit is cert’nly an eye-opener to me, She thinks they mine oars, that rain causes paddles in the street and that tillers are precision dance units, When [asked her if she'd ever tacked a sailboat she told me that she was just too clumsy for words with tools but that) she thought they had to be put to- How one minister converted his steeple into a megaphone to reach those who would not come to church. gether with something much more substantial. Then, L said, you have probably never luffed a er-either and she blushed, She said she hoped some day to go to sea for a long, long time which is a useless wish. She is all at sea now, —Carrotr Carnor.