Judge, 1917-05-19 · page 5 of 32
Judge — May 19, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate humor pieces satirizing social issues of the era: 1. **"Getting Even"** (top photo-story): Shows a man injured after a car accident, mocking the "middle-aged occupant" who lost control. The joke attributes the accident to the driver's attempts to appear young—the Missourian's comment suggests vanity caused the crash. 2. **"She Knew"** (middle): A Sunday school joke where a child answers "golden rod" to the teacher's question about "the rod of affliction," likely referencing a wealthy father's annual August fever/absence—satirizing wealthy fathers' escape behaviors. 3. **"Beyond Help"** (bottom): A divorce joke mocking a woman who married hoping to improve her situation; the punchline suggests marriage couldn't help, so divorce won't either. These reflect early 20th-century social commentary on wealth, vanity, and marriage dissolution.
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GETTING EVEN Wis DEDUCTION HE Missourian was lopping over his own fence and gazing meditatively up the big road, when toward him came a motor car which seemed to be giving trouble to its middle-aged i occupant. The car bucked and snorted wildly, and then ru: } forward, swerving from side to side out of control. Almost in front of the on- looker the automobile darted to the left, went down a bank, rolled over and slammed against a tree, into the branches of which it hurled its driver, leaving him hanging by one foot in a crotch and appar- ently unconscious. “Well,” commented the Missourian. “I ‘n old feller trying to show that he -wn!—be.” —Tom P. Morgan | | ever could see any sense in was just as young as he used to—yaw-w- She Knew “What is the rod of affliction?” asked the Sunday school teacher, “Golden rod,” shouted the little girl whose father has hay- fever every August. Beyond Help He—Here's a woman suing for divorce on the ground that she was in.a trance when she got married. : “If all the wealth in the country were equally divided, what His better half—Well, if marriage didn’t bring her out of it, would everybody get ?” . divorce won't. "Foolish, and a car!” comicbooks.com