Judge — July 13, 1918 — page 2: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine features a cartoon and article about humor preferences. The cartoon shows two people exchanging reading material—one asking for "six four-line jokes" while the other offers a "123 line article," illustrating different tastes in humor length. The accompanying article argues that humor comes in various lengths, and that neither long nor short humor is objectively superior. It references "Judge" (the magazine itself, personified) conducting pseudo-scientific research with "white laboratories" to determine optimal humor length for different ages and circumstances. The page includes a subscription offer at bottom left. The satire gently mocks both rigid preferences for specific humor formats and the magazine's self-promotional claims about having scientifically determined the "correct" humor mixture. It's primarily humorous commentary on reader preferences rather than political satire.