Judge, 1925-01-17 · page 28 of 36
Judge — January 17, 1925 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief humorous pieces typical of 1920s satirical magazines: **"Mrs. Twiggs" cartoon**: A working-class woman (indicated by dialect) excuses herself from conversation because her husband is home with his thumb literally plugging a burst pipe, waiting for the plumber. The joke relies on the physical comedy of the situation and class-based humor common to the era. **"Mathematical Conundrum"**: A riddle about childbirth—"one and one" (two people) marry and produce "two, and one to carry" (two children, one being carried). It's mild wordplay about reproduction. **"The Last Smoke"**: A brief joke about cremation preferences. **"The Greatest Show on Earth"**: A longer first-person account about attending a January 24 solar eclipse in New York, treating it with obsessive seriousness after missing previous sporting events due to distractions. **"IN 1925" cartoon**: A domestic scene where a woman appears undressed; the husband protests, but she explains that frocks are outdated—"lingerie is all the fashion." This satirizes 1920s changing women's fashion toward more revealing styles.
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Mrs. Twiggs (after ten minutes conversation)—Well, I must be getting along to the plumbers, Mrs. Brown, ‘cos me ‘usband’s at “ome with ‘is thumb on a busted pipe, waiting till "e comes. Mathematical Conundrum One and one are two, But if one and one should marry, How is it, in a year or so, ‘There's two, and one to carry? tae Excavators in Utah found the bones of a carnivorous dinosaur, brontosaurus, ceratosaurus, stego- saurus and diplodocus. Looks like a hard winter ahead if the makers of crossword puzzles hear about it. The Last Smoke “I'd like to be cremated, but I'm my wife wouldn’t like it.” “Why so?” he’s always complaining about my leaving my ashes around.” longer worn. Passing Show (London) ny wud i! The Greatest Show on Earth (Continued from page 12) people will attend this eclipse, and T ain going to be as close as [ can get. When I went to the Dempsey-Firpo fight, the back of the bench on which L was standing broke down and when Tcame up the fight all Thad had for my 825 was about $1.65 worth of preliminaries. At the Dempsey-Carpentier fight I was trying to focus my field glasses and missed the knockout. At the Janu- ary 24 eclipse Lam going to take a position on top of an apartment building approved and certified by the New York board of public con- struction, and Iam going to keep my eyes glued on the sun. The hand- book says not to take the chance of missing the eclipse by trying to focus your opera glasses on it, And if I hear somebody behind me yell, “Hello, Don, [didn’t expect tu see you here,” [am not going to turn around until the eclipse is over, even at the chance of offending some old friend. No idle banter or other monkey business at this eclipse, for me. It is easy to make new friends, but total eclipses come to New York only every so often. (The next one visible here will not be until 202 I am not going to pull any I. fellow-well-met stuff on January 24 this year.) I am just explaining in advance to any of my friends who think Iam too cold and businesslike on January 24. over, and IN 1925 “Good Lord, Doris, you've forgotten your frock!" “Gracious, but you are behind the times. George. Frocks are no Lingerie is all the fashion nowadays.” ———— comicbooks.com