Judge, 1924-09-06 · page 34 of 37
Judge — September 6, 1924 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page features two period humor cartoons from Judge magazine (1894), drawn by James Montgomery Flagg, a prominent illustrator of the era. **"A Question of Location"**: A husband questions his wife about a fire in her boudoir. She claims her maid was fixing her hair when it started, but when asked where *she* was, she admits she was in her boudoir too—the humor being the implied impropriety of the situation and her evasive answer. **The Pool Scene**: Two men discuss bathing; one claims to be "moistening [his] epidermis" rather than actually bathing. The joke mocks affected, pretentious speech—using fancy vocabulary ("epidermis" for skin) to describe simple activities, typical of upper-class affectation that Judge frequently satirized. Both jokes rely on Victorian-era social anxieties: propriety, class pretension, and double meanings. The page's title "Ask Dad—He Knows" frames these as old-fashioned humor types. The surrounding advertisements (stationery, hearing aids, rings, acne treatments) are typical period magazine filler.
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