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This page collects brief humorous anecdotes from various American and European newspapers, arranged as a humor digest typical of Judge's format. **Key satires include:** - **"His Sun and Air"**: Mocks wealthy college graduates who return to their family farms with pretentious airs, renaming the property with fancy names and hosting "week-ends" for college friends while contributing little actual labor. - **"Too Little Speed"**: A joke about automobiles fast enough to violate traffic laws but not fast enough to outrun police—reflecting early 20th-century frustration with new motor vehicle regulations. - **"Wrongly Catalogued"**: A politician is embarrassed when his resignation gets filed under "Public Improvements," implying his departure actually improves the city. - **The cartoons** feature social commentary on marriage-as-skill, golf, and maritime travel. Most items satirize class pretension, new technologies (cars, jazz), and human nature generally rather than targeting specific political figures or events.

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L “Do you know the latest dance?” “No. I didn’t go out of the house yesterday.” — Meggendorfer Blaetter (Munich). Nuts for Him “Golf must be a very amusing game.” “Well,” returned the novice, “it hasn’t made me laugh yet, but my caddie appears to get a great deal of quiet fun out of it.”—Boston Tran- script. Paip IN Futt—An_ English- snan and a Scotsman were trav- eling north together, and to pass the time indulged in a game of nap. On settling up at Carlisle, when the Englishman had to get out, it was found that he owed the Scot one shilling and sixpence halfpenny. He paid the one shilling and six- pence, but found that he had no coppers. “A-weel,” said the Scot, “never mind, I’ll just be takin’ your evenin’ paper.”—Los Angeles Times. A REBATE—“You have to pay your hired hands a great deal of money.” “More’n I could afford,” said Far- mer Corntassel, “if me and my boy Josh didn’t get some of it back playin’ pinochle every Saturday night.”— Washington Star. Otp SturF—Sillicus—Ah! mar- riage is a lottery. Cynicus—Old stuff, my bey. Nowa- days it’s a game of skill.—Town Topics. His SUN AND AIR — “Now that your boy is out of college, is he help- ing you on the farm?” “Not enough to notice,” said Mr. Cobbles. “He’s given the old home place a fancy name he found in a book, and invites his colleges friends out to spend what he calls week-ends, but me and the hired men are keep- ing the same hours we always did.”— Birmingham Age-Herald. Too LITTLE SPEED—“How fast can your car go?” “Just fast enough,” replied Mr. Chuggins, “to break the road rules, and not fast enough to keep ahead of the cop.”—Washington Star. REDISCOVERED—F. C. Comstock, tonsorial artist and baseball magnate, has been washing the ceiling in his shop and finds the original color was white. The color will be recalled by many of our older residents.—Mes- hoppen Enterprise. GREAT DEVELOPER—“Have you had much experience in a jazz orchestra?” “Five years ago I was a physical weakling.” “Well?” “Feel my muscles now!”—Birm- ingham Age-Herald. grata NDF) || Wrongly Catalogued The politician rushed past the of- ficial Cerberus into the editorial sanctum. “What do you mean by insulting me as you did in last night’s Clamor?” “Just a minute,” replied the edi- tor. “Didn’t the story appear as you gave it to us—namely, that you had resigned as city treasurer?” “It did,” admitted the politician. “But you put it under the head, ‘Public Improvements.’ ”’—Harper’s Magazine. OptimisM—When the time for grapes comes along figs will have gone, and when grapes are finished pecans will be here, so we aren’t as disconsolate as we might be.— Thomasville (Ga.) Times-Enterprise. TRUE—‘She’s been our servant for the last twenty years.” “Good gracious! One of you must have a lovely disposition.”—Louis- ville Courier-Journal. “You will have to pay in advance, becausz the boat leaks.”"—Le Journal Amusant (Paris). comicbooks.com