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This page from *Judge* magazine contains several distinct pieces of humor: **Top Cartoon ("Breeze Gag")**: A hotel joke playing on word ambiguity—a guest complains the hotel is "a fine place for a change and rest," but the bellhop's response suggests the establishment profits from guests while providing neither comfort nor relaxation. **"I Wish I Were" Section**: A collection of humorous submitted wishes from college students, each using wordplay or ironic reversals. Examples: wishing to be a post office box (so no one would "knock"), a taxi-meter (better when it doesn't work), or a sarsaparilla bottle (so one would never be "corked"/drunk). **"Bedtime Story for Night Watchmen"**: A children's story dialogue where little Percy asks naive questions about zoo animals, particularly giraffes' long necks. The humor targets both children's literal-minded curiosity and adults' exasperation with constant questioning. **Bottom right**: A brief joke about a college student's class pin mistaken for a toothbrush. The page represents typical 1920s college humor—wordplay, gentle satire of student life, and conversational jokes.

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I Wish I Were Arr LAR post office box 42 When it gets full, there’s no one knocks. A taxi-meter when it shirks— It's better liked the less it works. Britamniea’s Eneyelopedia, Disgorging rare enlightened media, A golf ball; for if E were that, T never would be really flat. A mazda lamp: then Fd he bright, And always could go out at night. A sarsaparilla bottle—see? And corked I'd never, never be. Carl Shoup, Stanford, * 24. ae The prisoner in the tower paced. the floor like a caged tiger. He clasped and unclasped his hands. he leaped against the wall, and et un! But L wish I were down and —David Green, U. of Pennsylvania. sae “If you kiss me just once TM seream,.” she said. “You really must be nice.” I didn’t want to raise a fuss, And so T up and kissed her twice. J. O. Watson, Bowdoin, * 24. JABREEZE on'2T Drawn by T. H. Breeze, Stanford Tommy—tThis is a fine place for a change and rest. Rot—Yes, the bellboys get the change, and the hotel keeper gets the rest! ttt A BEDTIME STORY FOR NIGHT WATCHMEN _ . “What's the toothbrush on your lapel for?” O™ E upon a time litte Perey went sit or sit to jump?” asked Perey, little “That's my class pin. Twas graduated to the zoo. realizing —and Tam afraid that many of from Colgd Carl Bridenbaugh, Dart- “Nursey,” said he—for he had coined my little listeners are like him—that mouth. that 1 nurse the name all by himself for his questions sometimes become very try- Nursey, what is that animal ing. That night, his mind still full of the hut up, you brat,” said Nursey. 200, little Perey said, “Nursey, tell me a “Ooo! Goody-goody! ‘Then itis a bedtime ste giraffe!” said lithe Perey, full of childish “AI righ excitement, you may be sure. “Why were talking, does he have such a long neck?” id Nursey. “Two men nd one of them xdy-goody!” said “Because it’s so far from his shoulders rupting. to his hi . said Nursey, glad to xpli tin. “And one of them said: ‘Who was that “After this you keep your trap shut.” lady T seen you walking down the street Nursey, how does the giraffe blow his And the other man sked little Perey, puzzled some- what, as tiny tots often are. But Nursey I know what the other did not answer. man said!” interrupted Percy again. “Are the bars to keep the monkeys in’ Little children should never interrupt, » people out?” asked little Perey. you know. hut up. Monkeys are what people ved from,” said Nursey. “Was it all right with the monkeys?” asked Percy, intensely interested. inter- nose To-morrow night we will hear what = SX “You make me sick,” said Nursey, Papa Whale did when Billy Swordfish understandingly. stuck in his throat. Good-night, chil- “Nursey, does the kang-a-roo jump to dren.—Northeutt Ely, Stanford, ‘24. Drawn by H. ALBRIGHT, Carnegie Tech. '2 John Held, Jr., finds a college maga- zine in which he has not been imitated. 20 comicbooks.com