Judge, 1911-04-29 · page 13 of 26
Judge — April 29, 1911 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects light satirical pieces and jokes typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines. The illustrated "Harem Scarem" cartoon shows a woman fleeing with children, likely satirizing contemporary anxieties about "harem" culture or immigrant populations—a common nativist trope of the era. The text pieces mock everyday situations: a wife questioning her husband about financial jargon ("money is cheap"), an aspiring actor's thin role, a father dismissing his wife by citing baseball stats instead of explaining economics, and corrected jokes ("Why does a chicken cross the road?"). The "Concave and Convex View" illustration shows fish with top hats making jokes about perspective and appearance—a visual pun on how viewpoint changes perception. Overall, this represents Judge's formula: gentle domestic satire, wordplay, and visual gags aimed at middle-class readers, with no overt political content on this particular page.
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To the Maiden in Section 10. By GRACE McKINSTRY. H, BERTHA of the upper berth! Pray, do you find it cheaper To lie so high above the earth When traveling in a sleeper? Or do you feel of loftier berth— Quite of the ‘‘upper ten’’— And think that this exalts your worth O’er ordinary men? Why Money Is Cheap. 46] WANT you to tell me what this paper means when it says in its market report that money is cheap,” said Mrs. McFee to her husband, who, like all husbands, is supposed to be en- cyclopedic. McFee laid “HAREM SCAREM.'’ Partly Prepared. “ ID YOU succeed in getting that manager to engage you?” “Yes. He is going to let me play the part of a walking gentleman.’”” “Well, you can walk all right, so ‘Il merely have to learn the other Information for the Young. “Ppa. WHAT'S an acolyte “Something that grows on the roof of a cave and hangs down like an Now run out and play. I'm y figuring up the batting averages of the home team.’’ icicle. bus: Old Conundrums with New Answers. By WILLIAM J. BURTSCHER, HY DOES a chicken cross the road? Because an auto is coming. What kind of a hen lays the longest? A dead hen, of course. But what about this one: What kind of a dead hen lays the longest? What was the first thing Adam put in the Garden of Eden? He put the blame on Eve. How long can a goose stand on one leg? As long as one leg can hold up the goose. What is the difference between an old penny and a new dime? One goes to church and the other to vaudeville. What table down tke sport- ing sheet. ‘‘It’s simply putting in abriefer form the statement that money talks,"’ he re- plied, ‘‘and that talk is cheap.”? Corrected. Willis—“Did the church fair net seventy dol- —] has no legs to stand on? The railroad time table—in fact, it doesn’t seem to stand for any- thing much but unreliable infor- mation. It Is a Problem. “You SAY that itisa problem play “Yes; ithing- la Gillis — ‘snared.’ in jail is worth two on Mr. Sunfish— bail. I was rather thin. Mr. Pike—"* Say, Sunfish, you 're beastly fat. Tt's just the way you look at me. CONCAVE AND CONVEX VIEW OF IT. Why don’t you do something for it ”” Now if I turn around—so, you would say es on a woman's age.”’ DLE rumors are apt to get busy sooner or later. comicbooks.com