Judge, 1918-03-16 · page 26 of 38
Judge — March 16, 1918 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page collects humorous observations and jokes targeting early 20th-century social types and behaviors. The "Nerviest Folks in the World" section satirizes academic and social parasites: professors who assign their own textbooks for profit, instructors borrowing pencils, men taking advantage of women (borrowing their dress suits for dates). The cartoons mock everyday absurdities: "Helping Hoover" shows a woman at a desk, likely referencing Herbert Hoover's food conservation campaigns during WWI, where citizens were asked to economize. The "Sprinkler" joke plays on observation-based innovation. Social commentary emerges in pieces like "Observant—Father," which ironically accepts his daughter's struggle against a young man's advances as natural. Multiple jokes about avoiding responsibility ("Meetless day," draft avoidance in "Lines on the Eve of the Draft") suggest wartime anxieties. The overall tone mocks both social pretension and youthful misbehavior through gentle satire typical of 1910s-20s humor magazines.
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