Judge, 1919-04-26 · page 16 of 32
Judge — April 26, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from the satirical magazine **Judge** contains humor columns and light jokes typical of early 20th-century American wit, rather than sharp political cartoons. **"Infantile Curiosity"** depicts a child asking a mother about children, with the mother's bewildered response. The humor relies on innocent misunderstanding. **"Wet and Dry"** section includes brief jokes: one about a new disease (dandruff) affecting "colored" hair, and another mocking temperance debates over whether water can be made "dry" (a reference to Prohibition-era arguments). **"Spinsters"** features three anecdotes about unmarried women, including one about a woman asking if influenza spreads by kissing—playing on common anxieties about contagious illness. **"Wheezes"** (meaning jokes) includes absurdist humor about mortgages, frontier etiquette, and unconventional appearances. The accompanying illustration shows two women in period dress, likely accompanying the "Spinsters" section. The overall tone is lighthearted domestic and social humor aimed at middle-class readers, with no apparent deep political content.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
intile Curiosity y, have | any children not, dear; what do you mean?" ¢ clergyman was talking af don Mail. : ‘ _ e Rattling Time Coming — Fe “He's composing a rattling good drinking ” ell, h up or it will have an awful fuony raul hers Statesman? song for his of Crimsonbeuk xwctter hurr: New Disca: ' the favorite rum scems to he ith a heve: running a close sc tonic ond, Several of our Beau Brummels seen t 1 to have a severe cae of dandruit of tt liver. —Arkansas piper Relate Also Ren—"T am afraid that your son is a f Dacchus I want to get a the preach: * answered the boot nd here “Why, he c chus and f All the Was legger. crookerL icker are) Wings Under His Wing Some Sc the Colonel, “that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen with perhaps a dash * remarked of ozone id What of it “I'm glad to hear it. M the stuff seem more like a mixed drink.” Kansas City Journ Interrupted—" As I was saying,” he 1, “we entered the fé and had no ore than seated ourselves at the table ind said to the waiter, ‘Bring us three when a fellow sh ‘Three what?’ beans.’ wed his badge and said, and we sa Detroit News. plates of The Quick Trigger clubman) of night? Clubman ture Cop (to homing Where you going at this time I'm—hie—goin’ to a lec Boston Transcript. SPINSTERS Those Girls!—Jiss Elderly—Neat year is leap year. | had a chance to marty last Ic but 1 wouldn't rccept it because everybody would say I had done the proposing. iiss Keen—Vou were foolish, dear: they would have said that at any time Her One Precious Memory— The spinster waited two or three hours to he admitted to the presence vieited their town ence good his medicine to the come-ons. At last she the man who month to retail t own pre advice and retary was admitted the yes," said brusque doe- [ want to know if influenza can be mitted by kissing?” evond doubt, madam.” “Well, a man with of influenza kissed me pronounced « So! How long ago was this?” Well—let’s sce. I think it was about wo months.” Why, m No harm can come to you now from the exposure. It is quite sighed, “but 1 just hont it!" Philadelphia J eT. Ne” WHEEZES A Conerete Example— Binks— As one grows older there are certain things to keep up one’s in which it is difficu interest. Don’t you find it so? Jinks—Er—yes; there's the mortgage on my house. for example.— Boston Transcript. In Cactus Center“ it’s etiquette for a man at court to walk see out of a room backwards.” “Tt may not be etiquette around here,” remarked Piz'n Pete, “but it’s the safest way if you think some galoot is liable to draw a gun.”—Kansas City Journal. Anything is Possible by appearances. The grown man with the long curly hair may be making his own living. —Dallas News Do not jud, comicbooks.com