Judge — November 15, 1924 — page 24: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two unrelated humorous cartoons from early 1900s Judge magazine: **Top (Art Young, 1902):** A boy with white paint considers defacing restaurant signs. The joke plays on temptation—the boy sees identical signs for "Hashly's Restaurant" advertising "the best place to dine quick" and is tempted to paint over one sign to alter its message, creating mischief. **Bottom (T.S. Sullirant, 1903):** A woman confronts a tramp, asking if he's the man she gave five cents for a loaf of bread an hour earlier. His response—that a fellow can't "loaf" (both rest/wander AND eat from) a nickel's worth of bread long—is a pun exploiting the double meaning of "loaf." Both represent typical Judge humor of the era: mild, pun-based or situation comedy aimed at middle-class readers, with no political content. They're nostalgic pieces about "what they laughed at in the good old days."