Judge, 1915-03-06 · page 22 of 24
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This page contains three brief humorous anecdotes typical of Judge magazine's satirical style: 1. **"Jail the Place for Him"**: A prison reformer interviews an inmate satisfied with conditions. The joke's punchline reveals he's a polygamist preferring incarceration to facing five wives at home—satirizing both prison reform efforts and marital discord. 2. **"Strategy"**: A nephew reassures his aunt about oxen by explaining he previously crawled under them to avoid confrontation—a child's naive "logic" that's darkly humorous. 3. **"A Laundry That Failed"**: A homeless man claims his laundry business collapsed when his wife "got tired of work-in' and went home to her mother"—satirizing both failed entrepreneurship and domestic instability, with the tramp's opportunistic cadging for food as he leaves. These jokes reflect early 20th-century attitudes toward poverty, marriage, and social institutions through gentle ridicule rather than harsh satire.
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