Judge, 1913-07-12 · page 14 of 24
Judge — July 12, 1913 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate joke comics typical of Judge magazine's early 20th-century humor: **"Jack and His Famous Beanstalk"** is a visual comic strip adapting the fairy tale, with the subtitle "Everything which Goes Up must eventually Come Down"—likely satirizing financial speculation or social climbers. The three written jokes below use common period humor formulas: 1. **"The Summer Girl"** mocks women's vanity: a girl spends summer tanning, then immediately pays to have it removed at a beauty shop—satire on contradictory female beauty standards and consumer behavior. 2. **"Didn't Keep a Good Watch"** is a simple pun: a man watches his hat and coat at a restaurant but someone steals his watch instead—playing on the double meaning of "watch." 3. **"Unappreciated Wit"** presents a woman's complaint that her boyfriend dismissively compared her to "nature's carriage"—mocking both male insensitivity and women's materialism. These represent mainstream, genteel American humor from Judge's target audience.
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JUDGE'S MOTION PICTURES Jack and His Famous Beanstalk; or, Everything which Goes Up must eventually Come Down The Summer Girl ‘THERE WAS a girl in our town, and she was good to scan; she spent her days in playing games where she got lots of tan. And when she saw the tan was on, with all her might and main she rushed into a beauty shop and took it off again. Didn't Keep a Good Watch “‘Confound those restaurant signs!"* “‘What’s the trouble now?’’ “While I was watching my hat and coat, some one stole my watch.’” At the seaside sunburn and heartburn often are contracted at the same time. Unappreciated Wit «eM EN are really too mean for any- thing!” “‘What’s the trouble now?”” “Why, [asked John for an automobile to-day, and he said that I must be con- tented with the splendid carriage that Nature has given me!"* comicbooks.com