Judge, 1912-03-02 · page 14 of 24
Judge — March 2, 1912 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top cartoon ("How Aggravating"):** A simple joke about exaggeration in conversation. Brown describes someone swearing after dropping "twenty stories"—Greene initially misunderstands this as a person falling from a building. The punchline reveals it's merely a magazine that fell in mud. The humor lies in the miscommunication and the anticlimactic reveal; the man's profanity wasn't about a dramatic accident but about ruining a purchased magazine. **Bottom cartoon ("Home from the Masquerade"):** Depicts a well-dressed man in formal attire and top hat surrounded by costumed carnival or masquerade revelers. The title suggests social satire about aristocratic pretense—someone returning home from a masquerade ball while surrounded by common entertainers or "masked" ordinary people, possibly commenting on class divisions or the artificiality of high society.
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HOW AGGRAVATING. Brown-“| saw a man drop twenty stories the other day, and it was a caution the way he swore.” Greene—" Swore after dropping twenty stories >” Brown—" Yes. They were in a magazine he had just bought, and he dropped it in the mud.” HOME FROM THE MASQUERADE. comicbooks.com