Judge, 1911-03-11 · page 17 of 24
Judge — March 11, 1911 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains multiple brief humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Going Some"** (top cartoon): A joke about an automobile's speed—the driver claims he passed vegetables so fast they appeared as a dish of cold slaw, exaggerating the car's velocity for comedic effect. **"At Her Feet"**: Satirizes an actress's self-aggrandizing letter, where she claims the "whole town is at my feet"—a common theatrical cliché mocked here. **"Profitable Paper"**: Mocks a candy manufacturer who profits by selling expensive cardboard boxes and partitions to make candy appear more substantial than it is—commentary on commercial deception. **"A Fighting Chance"**: A schoolroom joke where a student misinterprets literary language, replacing "plashy tramp" with crude modern phrasing. The remaining pieces are brief social jokes about animals, bridge etiquette, aeroplanes, kissing, and tourism—reflecting contemporary concerns and class attitudes. The humor is gentle, domestic satire rather than political commentary.
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GOING SOME. Friend—* What's the speed caprcity of your machine !"* Fiend—"* 1 don’t know. At Her Feet. By WILBUR D. NESBIT 'T WAS a beautiful act- o-ress Who wrote to a dis- tant friend, h only a minute, as you might guess, Ly In writing a note to And wrote in her scrambled spend. 0) chirography Her budget of breathless news. She took the city directory As a perch for her little shoes, “I'm making a hit,’’ she told her friend, ‘A hit that cannot be beat. The run of the show will never end— The whole town is at my feet."" Profitable Paper. 667 HERE'S a man,” says our friend, ho has made a fortune selling cardboard.” “Who? That man over there?’ we ask. ‘‘Why, that’s Glookoaze, the candy maker!"" Doesn't he sell you the card- board box and a lot of cardboard parti- tions to make the candy look neat, for eighty cents a poun “Sure! A Fighting Chance. HE ADVANCED English class had been reading ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’’ and had reached the dramatic line where it said, ‘‘A plashy tramp caught the sensitive ear of Icha- bod."" ‘Put it into your own words,’’ asked the teacher of a promising-looking stu- dent. ““Why,’? he replied promptly, ‘‘the dirty tramp got a hold of his sore ear."’ Very Much Not. oc E KIND to all dumb animals’’— a creed To which we all would fain subscribe, indeed. But cats that howl at night on our back fence Are not dumb animals. tense! That's all pre- Feminine Consideration. oe HY!"’ exclaims the early guest. “There are no spades in these decks you have arranged for bridge!" "' smiles the hostess. ‘‘Mrs, Gumphum’s husband began life as a sec- tion man, you know—and I thought I would have nothing to remind her of their early days.”’ The other day I passed a cabbage patch and an onion field a mile apart so fast that they looked like a dish of cold slaw.’” The Latest Song. 66 MPOTHER, may I go aeroplane?”’ “Yes, my darling Mary. Tie yourself to an anchor chain, And don’t go near the airy.” ANY people are willing to catch a cold from kissing if they can only kiss the right one. OUT OF SIGHT. Tourist—'' Hang the luck! Climbed up here two thousand feet, and can’t see a thing." comicbooks.com