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# "All at Sea" - Judge Magazine Humor Page This page presents WWI-era military humor sketches, likely from 1917-1918 based on references to the USS Pennsylvania and Navy Reserve personnel. The sketches mock military life through workplace interactions: 1. **Officer/Coxswain exchange**: Jokes about naval protocol—a junior sailor yields to a larger ferry despite having right-of-way, using "right of weight" as wordplay. 2. **Cook/Waiter dialogue**: Dark humor about reserve officers' toughness; the cook assumes a reservation officer deserves tough, small portions (suggesting reserve officers were considered lesser soldiers). 3. **Singing sailors**: A woman at a naval party repeatedly fails to hit high notes while singing about "ten thousand leaves," with a gunner joking she should transpose down—lighthearted teasing. 4. **Rookie/Cook finale**: A Southern recruit prefers home-style chicken to fancy "à la carte" dining, playing on regional dialect for comic effect. The humor relies on naval hierarchy, class distinctions between regular and reserve officers, and ethnic/regional stereotypes typical of period satire.
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Officer of the Deck—Why did you give way to the ferryboat? You had the right of way. Coxswain—I know that, sir, but he had the right of weight—Lieut. “Herie” Muter, U.S.N.R.F. ae Waiter—Steak for one. Make it small and tough. Cook—Why small and tough? “It’s for a guy who was a reserve en- “All at Sea.” m the Pennsylvania during Lieut. “Hetre” Miter, sign with me eet “Ten thousand leaves are fal-l-i-n-g,” warbled a sweet young thing at a party given for bunch. of sailors. She started too high. ‘Ten thousand le-a-v-e-8,” screeched again. Still too high. “Down five hundred!” yelled a gun she 8 row.—Locan E. sippi. ree Hard-boiled Cook—Don’t you like this chicken? I suppose you're one of those silver spoon guys who want their meals ala carte? Rookie from Birmingham—No, suh. Ah don’t want mah meals 4 la carte, but Ah suah does lak’ mah chicken A —Lievt. “Hern1e” pointer inthe RvaGues, U.