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This page collects brief humorous anecdotes and jokes from various international sources, typical of Judge's "humor digest" format. The cartoons and jokes satirize early 20th-century social anxieties and gender dynamics. **Key humor targets:** - **Neuroticism and hypochondria**: A surgeon's anecdote mocks imaginary ailments and nervous disorders among wealthy urbanites. - **Gender roles**: Jokes about wives' irrational fears, women's vanity about appearance, and husbands' domestic incompetence (running a tank but not a vacuum cleaner). - **Class and pretension**: A Kansas farm boy tries to appear sophisticated at a Chicago hotel but is exposed by the waiter's familiarity. - **Workplace propriety**: A boss forbids "levity," creating awkwardness around a kissing incident. - **Male behavior**: Golf and religious hypocrisy—swearing golfers and a curate lectured by working-class "navvies" on proper language. The final cartoon shows an absentminded father who's spent an hour in the park without remembering to bring the baby carriage home—mocking paternal obliviousness.

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