Judge, 1916-08-19 · page 18 of 28
Judge — August 19, 1916 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous cartoons and jokes translated from European publications, illustrating early 20th-century working-class and everyday life. **Key content:** - **Pavelky's camera trick** (Prague): A photographer forces subjects to smile by pinching them before photos—satirizing artificial posed portraits. - **Summer Shower** (Sydney): A woman complains about ruining a new hat while a man boasts of keeping his legs for twenty years—mocking vanity about fashion versus body parts. - **The Monologue** (Munich): A German speaker jokes that whoever invented work should have patented it to prevent others from using the concept—lampooning labor complaints. - **Sailor and gentleman** (London): Physical comedy about mistaking a narrow passageway for a main gangway. - **The Utility Man** (London): A desperate job applicant describes himself as useful only for menial tasks—dark humor about unemployment and class desperation. - **Save Old Papers** (Paris): A writer hopes to sell manuscript scraps for twenty francs per kilogram—satire on literary poverty.
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LAUGHS FROM NAPAD POTOGRAPA PAVELKY, aby se mu kazdy do aparatu pekne usmival. A novel idea of photographer Pavelky to insure in everyone a smiling countenance before the camera.—Humoristicke Listy (Prague). The Summer Shower “Here, great Scott, my dear—your legs!" “Oh, bother them! ['ve had them for twenty years, and this hat only two days.” — Sydney Bulletin. OVER Monologue “Arbeit is jut, aber der sie erfunden hat, hatte sie sich patentieren’ lassen sollen, damit sie ihm keener nich nehmen kann.” “Work is all right, but the chap who in- vented it ought to have had it patented so that nobody could get it away from him.”"— Meggendorfer Blactter (Munich). Sailor (who has been rammed in the stom- ach by hurrying old gentleman)—“ Woa-o- dy on, Sir! This isn’t the main gangway—it's my mess-deck.”—London Opinion. THE SEA The Utility Man The business man (to applicant for a situa- tion)—Yes; we're short-handed, but what use do you think you'd be in an office? The applicant—Well, Guv’ner, I’m wot yer might call a orl-round useful sort o’ man —light a match for yer; ’old a door open; ring ther bell for ther lift; look an’ see if it’s left off rainin’; and tell people yer out when you ain’t.—Sketch (London). Save Your Old Papers A vingt francs le aussi belle occasi: “At twenty francs the hund grammes, I'll never have a finer cha place my manuscripts.” —Le Rire (Paris).