Judge, 1915-10-09 · page 22 of 28
Judge — October 9, 1915 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertising with **"Foreign Humor"**—reprinted jokes from British and Australian publications (Punch, Sydney Bulletin, London Opinion). ## The Cartoons/Jokes: The three humor pieces mock working-class attitudes: 1. **Vaccination skeptic**: A British working-class parent complains that vaccination hasn't prevented her son from getting whooping cough, measles, etc.—missing the point that vaccination prevents *smallpox* specifically. 2. **Unexpected marriage**: A brief joke about a man's surprising marriage proposal. 3. **War-era clothing**: A observer sympathizes with a woman's short skirt, assuming wartime poverty forced her to economize on fabric—she responds sarcastically that economic hardship explains it (the joke implies vanity, not necessity). These represent typical early-20th-century British/Commonwealth working-class humor: gentle mockery of logical confusion, marital complications, and wartime penny-pinching. The page is primarily **advertising** (law school courses, hotels, press clipping services) with humor filling remaining space.
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