Judge, 1919-09-06 · page 17 of 36
Judge — September 6, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a humor digest—short jokes and anecdotes rather than political cartoons. The top illustration (by Herman Palmer) depicts a playful scene of adults and children in clouds, setting a whimsical tone. The "Digest of the World's Humor" collects brief, humorous newspaper clippings and anecdotes organized by comedic premise. Examples include: - **"His Two Fathers"**: Satire on government publicity work—the son of famous reformer Jacob Riis receives a Danish honor despite his father's actual achievements. - **"Bridget and Frigid"**: A domestic comedy about a Swedish housewife; the humor relies on dialect and the wife's forgetfulness about storing ice properly. - **"Con and the World Cons With You"**: References post-WWI food surplus scandal, implying government conspiracy to artificially suppress vegetable prices. - **"Just Kids" and "Quite Near Enough"**: Standard domestic humor about children's naive logic and their bargaining with parents. The overall tone is light, observational American humor circa early 1920s, without apparent heavy political messaging.
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Drawn by Heawax Patsen Digest of the World BAD | BREAKS | So Do We All—“ Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., WATCHES FOR WOMEN OF SUPERIOR DESIGN AND PERFECTION OF MOVEMENT.” —.Ad. it Philadel phia Ledger Crime in Perpetuity—“Bal — de- clared that he was the ‘goat,’ and that the men ‘with the bars’ were responsible for crimes PERPETUATED upon American soldiers who were arrested in Paris,”"— New York Evening Globe. Warned—The party who took the scraper from the corner of Sixth street and Western avenue is known and if scraper is not returned promptly PER- secuTION will follow.—Watertown, Wis., Times. Old Stuff—Wanted, a boy to carry PAPERS about 12 years old.—Goshen Dem- ocrat, His Two Fathers—George Riis, son of Jacob Riis AND A BROOKLYN News- PAPER REPORTER, has been notified that the King of Denmark had conferred upon him the Order of Dannebrog. Mr. Riis was a government publicity agent in Denmark during the war.—New York bune Any War Tax?—Lee Smith, Charles Hensley and Elmer Day went to Farmer City Sunday morning, where they. pur- chased themselves THREE LADIES and then started ona trip to Starved Rock. After making the circuit they arrived home early Monday morning.— Bellflower Nei How Did He Do It?—Husband sur- VIVES WIFE WHO DIES WITH HIM.—Head- line in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Bridget and Frigid FP ~S Frun—Hur manga gagner ska jag saga Fina, att hon ska lagga in isen ¢ isskapet medan den ar kall. Har ligger den ju och blir often must I tell you to ¢ ice-box while it is cold? lay there and get quite hot!—Kas- im). A Long Day—The Manchester cotton mill operatives’ strike is ended, the work- ers having been granted a 48 hour day.— Associated Press. Con and the World Cons With You —Colonel Davis also confirmed previous testimony to the effect that there was an understanding between the War Department and the CONNERS of vege- tables that the $100,000,000 surplus of canned goods was to be held off the mar- ket.—New York Tribune. Physical Versatility— Thelma Tucker, who is now in Chicago, is here for a few weeks’ visit.—Keokuk Gate City. Dickens's Greatest—Dickens'’s great- “Donkey & Son,” is presented t time as a picture play. It will be released this month by Triangle. at Falls Tribune. 17 Just Kids—‘Guess I'll go into the parlor.” “No fun in there, only sis with her beau. What you wanter go in there fer?” “I won't be long. He'll pay me a quarter to git out."—Louisville Courier- Journal. Unrest Over There—‘ Labor unrest,” said a banker, “was to be expected in Europe, for wages over there have been terribly low. “In France, for example, good gar- deners used to be content to work for fifty cents—three francs—a day. ‘The European laborer was very much in the position of a boy I once saw hoeing potatoes on a Shawnee iarm. “*Boy,’ I said to him, ‘what do you get for hocing those potatoes?’ Nothin’ if I do,’ said the boy, ‘but a lot if I don’t.’ —Washington Star. Quite Near Enough—Marjorie and her mother were out shopping. In one establishment the proprictor’s dog, who liked children, came over and stood beside her. Marjorie told him to get away, but he only moved closer. The assistant asked her if she didn't like dogs, and she replied: “T like dogs all right, but I likes ‘cross the street.”—London Answers. ‘m Chocolate Flavor—‘What’s this?” said 's mother, as the child handed her a familiar looking quart box “That’s what you sent me to the drug store for, wasn’t it?” said cold cream, child.” “Well, that’s the coldest I could get, mamma.”—Kansas City Journal.