Judge, 1916-08-12 · page 25 of 28
Judge — August 12, 1916 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **multiple short humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The jokes satirize everyday social situations with gentle irony: 1. **"The Letters of Charles Lamb"** — A bookshop clerk mistakes a customer's request for a literary classic as asking for mail addressed to "Mr. Lamb," confusing letters (correspondence) with a book title. 2. **The Railroad Survey** — Engineers measure land through a farmer's barn to avoid a detour. The farmer allows it but sarcastically warns he won't open the doors for actual trains—mocking rural skepticism of progress. 3. **The Professor's Wife** — A pedantic professor corrects his wife's grammar ("fresh water" not "fresh miter"), only for her to humiliate him by pointing out his own error (hanging a picture "over" vs. "above" a clock). The **advertisements** (Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Hotel Puritan, Carbona cleaning fluid) and promotion for Maurice Switzer's serialized book fill remaining space. The humor targets pretentiousness, miscommunication, and the ironies of daily life—typical Judge magazine fare from this era.
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