Judge, 1924-01-26 · page 25 of 37
Judge — January 26, 1924 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief humorous vignettes from various sources, mostly depicting early 20th-century social situations: **Top cartoon**: A constable encounters a woman waiting in the rain for a "passing show" (traveling performance). The joke centers on her dedication—she's soaked but won't leave her spot, asking the officer not to move her along. **Gender joke**: A parent can't determine a child's sex, responding "it's a 'them'"—likely satirizing either unclear clothing conventions or ambiguous appearance. **Vouskouski reference**: Appears to be a real or fictional songwriter who exhausts place-names for song titles ("going back to" was a popular nostalgic songwriting trope of the era). **Sausage joke**: Appears to mock wartime inflation or currency collapse (2,000,000 marks suggests German hyperinflation); a husband's absurdly valuable sausage falls through a tram ticket hole. **Bottom cartoons**: A watchmaker's joke about checking external time, and a restaurant humor about inescapable payment obligations. The page demonstrates Judge's style of reprinting international humor across publications.
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om The Faithful Heart—Would you mind ordering me to move on, constable? wet through, and she may be hours yet.—Passing Show. ii EN “Well, is it a ‘him’ or a ‘her’?” “Sir, it’s a ‘them’!"—Humorist. Herman Vouskouski, the celebrated song- writer, searching for new names on the globe, which have not already been utilized to “go back to.”—London Opinion. “Yesterday my husband bought a sausage for 2,000,000 mai For safety he folded it in a tram ticket, but it fell through the hole punched by the con- duetor!” Simplicissimus (Munich). rey Watchmaker — Dearie me! My watch has “The service is very attentive here!” stopped. Boy, just run outside and see what “Yes. There's no chance to get out the time is!—Passing Show. without paying!"—Meggendorfer Blaetter.