Judge, 1917-12-01 · page 33 of 36
Judge — December 1, 1917 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **title page and contents listing** for an upcoming issue, announcing next week's cover story "The Pacifist" by Will Rannells, with illustrations by prominent cartoonists including James Montgomery Flagg. The page includes three **humorous anecdotes** under "Stories with Smiles": 1. A judge sentencing a Black defendant to find "thirty days" by searching his vest pockets—a joke about racial stereotyping and financial hardship. 2. A clerk's misunderstanding about collecting a debt from "Mr. Jones," who instead offers his daughter in marriage—a crude comedic misfire. 3. Two office stories: a stenographer's romantic phone call mistaken for business, and a deathbed will provision promising large bequests to long-serving employees the testator knows won't survive to collect. The humor relies on period conventions: racial caricature, gender dynamics, workplace hierarchy, and ironic reversals. **Context: Published December 1917**, during America's WWI involvement, the cover's "Pacifist" theme likely references anti-war sentiment.
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ber 1, 1917 NEXT WEEK'S JUDGE WILL BE A SPRIGHTLY NUMBER The Cover, Timely and Amusing, by WILL RANNELLS is entitled The Pacifist Other illustrations by JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG ROY SCHABELITZ WALTER De MARIS - POWER O'MALLEY WESTMACOTT J. R. SHAVER RODNEY THOMSON AUGUST HENKEL CARL ANDERSON EMIL FLOHRI C. F. PETERS BARKSDALE ROGERS end others The Text is by WALT MASON. DOUGLAS MALLOCH GEORGE BINGHAM CYRIL B. EGAN C. H. FUNNELL TOD CHENEVIX And the other humorists who make JUDGE “The Happy Medium” Vol. LXXII1 December 1, 1917 No. 1885 "Telephone 663% Madison > Publisbed weekly hy Lesliedudge Brunswick Building, #23 Fifth Av w debe A. Sleicher, Geant E. Hari eeks ose ; vance ar by draft on New Y express or "The cont cote United St AUDGE are protected by copyright in both the Great Britain. npot be found at any ul, the publishers will ‘ations if that fact be promptly reported on postal opy: 1916, Mexico. WESTER) weeping my heart a Manette Building Tremont Bui [ Stories with Smiles | Not So Easy—<A negro v brought into a Virginia court o larceny. Judge After hearing the e ndered for a moment before passing and said: upon the negro replied: “Boss mall skimption. Ah got dat ten right down in mah left-hand vest ” continued the Judge, down in your right-hand vest see if you can find thirty da body's. Unexpected Luck—A St. Louis mer- chant had made use of one of his young clerks in the stead of his regular collector, who ill. When the young man returned from his rounds he was rather down in the mouth. “Have any luck?” asked the merchant. “$So-so,” replied the young man, list- lessly. ‘How about that Jones bill? I suppose you collected that. Y. o aid that Mr. Jones was a friend of yours.” ll, sir,” said the clerk, “I don’t know whether to rejoice or not at my success with Mr. Jones.” vhy not?” at depends. When I went in and said, ‘Mr. Jones, I called to speak about a matter’—he interrupted me, before I could proceed further, with ‘That’s all right, my boy; she’s yours; take her and be happy.’ "— Lippincott’s Magazine. An Undeserved Rebuke—The mana of the big department store stood stock: outside the little box-like chamber which held the telephone of the establishment, for he was a very startled manager indeed. Within the chamber he could hear Miss Jones, the stenographer, speaking, and this is a scrap of the conversation the startled man jeard: love you, dea “just dig and only you. I'm y. Yes, my darling, speak tome once more. I love you, dear, 1 love you so.” The young woman rang off and stepped out of the cabinet, to confront the angry manager. “Miss Jones,” he said, “that telephone has been fixed where it is or the purpose of convenience in conducting business, and not for love-making in office hours. I am sur- prised at you. Don’t let it occur again.” The young woman froze him with a glance. “I was ordering some new songs for No. 3 Department,” she explained, icily.—Dallas Generosity—An old fellow on his death- bed, in making his will, murmured to his rT: nd to each of my employees who have been with me twenty years or more I be- queath £2000.” “Holy smoke! r exclaimed. No, not at all,” said the sick man. “You see, none of them have been with me ar; but it will look good in the S, won't it?”"—Liverpool Post. What generosity!” the a B. Altman & Ca. Men’s Silk Scarfs MAKE APPRECIATED GIFTS Many beautiful designs are shown in the new assortments, which in- clude scarfs (made in the work- rooms of B. Altman & Co.) of tich imported silks. Prices $1.50 to $3.00 each MEN'S SILK REEFERS may be obtained at $5.50 to $12.00 each Fitth Abenue- Wadison Avenue Thirty-Lourth-Thicte-lilth Streets, Mew Dork A Xmas Suggestion by Summes Montgomery Plage HESE striking pictures of the color covers of Judge. printed on heavy double mat, ready for the frame, will be sold for 50 cents. They are 9x12, mounted in full colors. They will make your house a better place to live in and a brighter place for your friends to visit. “Eventually—Why Not Now?” by Harry Morse Meyers Send to Judge Art Print Department 225 Fifth Avenue New York City comicbooks.com