Judge, 1910-02-19 · page 11 of 16
Judge — February 19, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple brief satirical items typical of early-1920s humor: **"Where There's a Machine There's a Way"** depicts a darkly comedic scenario: a man suggests his mother-in-law practice driving on a cliff road—implying he hopes she'll drive off. The joke plays on the then-novel danger of automobiles and stereotypical tension between men and their in-laws. **Other items** include: a limerick mocking fashionable grooming (a Skye terrier's hair combed over its eyes), fire-fighting commentary, and seasonal jokes about Thanksgiving (turkeys noting they're safe on Washington's Birthday since the hatchet is "prominent" but not used on them). The "February Holidays" joke references Washington and Lincoln's birthdays, with a child's quip that there's no room for more February births—dark humor about overpopulation or family size. These represent Judge's style: topical, often morbid humor targeting contemporary society, fashion, and social anxieties, with wordplay and visual gags supporting the text.
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WHERE THERE'S A MACHINE THERE'S A WAY. Mr. Skeemer—* Yes, mother-in-law, I thought you should practice first with that old runabout. Remember how I showed you to steer? There's a lovely road runs up on top of the cliffs."” THE FASHIONABLE PUP. A HIGH-BRED young puppy from Skye Searched long, and in vain, for his eye; For his mistress, with care, Had combed his long hair O’er the place where those orbs ought to lie. FIRE-FIGHTING, 1920. A REBUKE. ¢¢ C)H, WHAT is 80 rare as a day in June?” Why, poet, this needless query, When a glance at the calendar would have shown "Tis a day in February ? A FRIEND in need is a bore indeed. THE TURKEY'S THANKSGIVING DAY. First turkey—" 1 always feel that Washington's Birthday is our Thanks- giving Day.” Second turkey-—* Why 802?” First turkey—" Because, although the hatchet is prominently before the American people then, we turkeys suffer no bloodshed.”* WHY NOT? HY DOESN'T some smart genius, Who wants to make his stake, Commence raising ** salted peanuts "* On the shores of Great Salt Lake? SO MANY MEN ARE LIARS. Benham—‘ We are getting near the birthday of the man who never told a lie."” rs. Benham—'* We don’t need the anniversary to remind us that he is dead."” FEBRUARY HOLIDAYS. Teacher—* What lesson do Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays teach us?" Boy--'' That there ain't room for any more of us tobe born in February.”’ THE BRIDGE THAT CROSSES THE SEA. comicbooks.com