Judge, 1918-04-06 · page 20 of 36
Judge — April 6, 1918 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several short satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century humor: **"The Rescuer's Usual Fate"** depicts Policeman John Bull intervening in a domestic dispute between a man and Mrs. Russia. The joke's political meaning: Britain (John Bull) attempts to police Russian affairs, but Russia resists interference and wants to continue her own way—a commentary on Western intervention in Russian affairs, likely during the Russian Revolution period. **"No Flies Among the Allies"** shows a spider and web, captioned in Italian as "the spider-web and the German spider"—suggesting Germany is trapped or entangled, positioning the Allies as having Germany contained. The remaining items are brief romantic/social humor pieces about engagement rings, accounting in relationships, and a temperance advocate's ironic recruit (a diver, not a teetotaler). The page overall reflects wartime Allied solidarity and domestic social commentary typical of Judge's satirical approach.
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| LOVE bar na eee scam ed “And how deep are you in love?” “Just a moment until I consult my expense account. Ahem! Up to the present. moment I have attained a One or the Other—Edith—Jack’s depth of $814.73."—Birmingham Age- been calling on me every evening lately. Herald What do you suppo: mean: Marie—Can't say positively, Either he loves you, or his landlady has ment ring means that you belong to me.” run out of coal.—Boston Transcript. “Not yet, Reginald. It merely means that you have, so to speak, an option on my hand. Don’t let your sense of pos- dear. Sensible Girl—“Now this engage- Close Accounting—‘ You are really in lov session get the better of you until you r “Yes,” replied the methodical young see me wearing a plain gold wedding man ring.” —Birmingham-A ge-Herald. The Rescuer's Usual Fate! Policeman Jokn Bull—But L only came on the scene because he had started to beat you up! Mrs. Russia—Never mind about that. Go on, Bill, teach ‘im to interfere—now you hit me again.—London Opinion. No Flies Among the Allies La ragnatela ¢ il ragno tedesco. ‘The spider-web and the German spider. 1 Asino (Rome). Fifty-Fifty—“Don’t imagine,” she said, “that I would consent to be your wife just because I have permitted you get it into your head that I’m going to ask you to be my wife just because I insisted on kissing you.”—Dayton News. | WET and DRY Drys Get a Recruit—A keen temper- ance advocate addressing a meeting on his pet subject. “I should like,” he declared, “to take every bottle of wine and every bottle of beer and every bottle of s and sink them all to the bottom of the sea.”” A man at the back of the hall jumped up excitedly, shouting: “Hear, hear! Hear, hear!” The lecturer paused in his remarks to beam delighted approval on the inter- rupter. “Ah, my friend,” he said, “I see you are a good teetotaler; a man made of the right stuff.” “Oh, no,” said the man; “I am a diver.”"—Illustrated World. Please Advise If a body meet a body, Loaded up with rye, Should a body greet a body, Or just sidle by? —Kansas City Journal.