Judge, 1911-11-11 · page 12 of 24
Judge — November 11, 1911 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Judge combines a dramatic news photograph with a satirical humor column titled "Between the Lines." **The Photograph:** Shows the SS *America* rescuing the crew of the sinking ship *Kate* off Labrador's coast in June 1928—a genuine maritime rescue story presented as documentary journalism. **The Satire:** "Between the Lines" is a humor column that reprints odd newspaper headlines and fragments, then adds sardonic one-line commentaries exposing the absurdity or unintended meanings in the original text. Examples include: - A train robbery yielding only $11.28 (the joke: robbers forgot to steal from the porter) - A sugar bowl being more harmful than beer (the joke: depends on throwing accuracy) - Chalk cliffs collapsing into the sea (the joke: contradicts the poem "Britannia needs no bulwarks") The humor relies on readers catching double meanings and logical inconsistencies in earnest news reporting. The column's wit was typical of Judge's sophisticated, urbane satire aimed at educated readers who enjoyed wordplay and ironic commentary on contemporary events.
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AN INCIDENT EN ROUTE. The ‘* America,’’ of the Indo-Canadian mail service. hove-to under hoisting fans, rescuing the crew of the sinking ‘‘ Kate’’ off the coast of Labrador, at daybreak, June 17, 1928. XO. ASSENGER flights can be arranged on the grounds.—East Anglian Daily Times. (It sounds as though that were the safest way.) How To Help People To Help Them- selves.—Headline in the Swansea Ga- zette, (One first-rate way is just to leave the front door open.) For Sale—Thirty cross-bred hens ready to lay three shillings apiece.—Natal (South Africa) Witness. (To buy them at less than seventy-five cents each sounds reasonable, even if they are cross.) ‘Hiawatha,’ Tennyson’s beautiful poem, was illustrated on the screen by a series of exquisite pictures.—Jreland's Saturday Night. (In Longfellow’s own words, ‘‘Some one had blundered.'’) Bandits who held up a train in which several millionaires were traveling through New Mexico secured only $11.28. —Chicago Enquirer. (They must have overlooked the porter; or, perhaps, it was a case of honor among, etc.) The lecturer made quite clear that the sugar bowl is often more harmful than the beer bottle.—Buffalo Express. (But doesn’t it all depend on the weight of Between the Lines. (Recent News Items Read Anew.) the bow] and the accuracy of the fellow who does the throwing?) A dispatch from Dover announces that another great mass of the chalk cliff fell into the sea last night.—Lon- don Evening News. (Some one will have to revise the poet’s famous dictum that Britannia needs no bulwarks.) The hearing of the petition against Mr. Masterman was marked by a series of jokes on the part of the counsel and by weariness on the part of the four judges.—Birmingham Courier. (Which is exactly the reverse of the usual order of things.) The ingenious mechanism performs one complete revolution a minute for ninety-five minutes without receiving any attention whatever from the oper- ator.—Milwaukee Free Press. (We look to see the inventor make a fortune from the South American trade.) It would seem that Bertha killed her- self on learning that her lover, who had declared he was a millionaire, was only a waiter ina Fifth Avenue restaurant. —New York World. (If she gave him more time, he would have gotten there.) Silas Fahnestock Barber, of South Manchester, has informed the War Office that he stands ready to defray the cost of four aeroplanes to be added to the national force.—Manchester Union. (A Barber making his country a present of air-cutters is a particularly appropri- ate happening.) A professional football player, a lion tamer, and a curate were yesterday found satisfactory engagements through the services of the local labor exchange. —Hull Examiner. (It's to be hoped there was no carelessness in handing round the address slips; the curate would make a mighty poor fist at line plunging, and few lion tamers can preach.) Will the lady who, accompanied by her father, viewed Friday's procession as it turned into Westminster Bridge out of Parliament Square, and was of- fered a pencil by a gentleman, in blue serge, with which to mark her program, please communicate through this col- umn?—London Times. (Looks as though she'd forgotten to return the pencil.) — Warwick James Price. comicbooks.com