Judge, 1925-04-25 · page 22 of 36
Judge — April 25, 1925 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate humorous pieces satirizing early 20th-century American life: **"All Wrong"** lists absurdities: paper napkins for monkeys, taxi meters, movie directors' bathroom designs, and P.T. Barnum's maxim about gullible people—typical social commentary on modern conveniences and human folly. **The "Smart Assistant" cartoon** jokes about customer service: an angry customer cannot articulate their complaint, so the condescending clerk offers to sell them a dictionary. This mocks both rude customers and insufferable retail workers. **"A Phoney Incident"** satirizes prison telephone communication. A chambermaid at a death-row facility repeatedly shouts "Next!" while cleaning, which echoes through corridors and reaches a warden's phone, causing him to believe he's receiving calls from execution witnesses reporting completed executions. The humor derives from bureaucratic confusion and the absurd mix-up of prison protocols with ordinary service interactions. All three pieces target social pretension, customer service failures, and institutional incompetence.
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| ALL Wrong TT ae theory of paper naphins allowing monkeys the ing the few people whe see them. The meters on taxic A movie director's idea of an | ordinary bathroom, Ditto any other room, The fellow whe thi can live as cheaply aso s even one Barnum—there’s one born oftener. Carroll If [' T were sure you really meant just half the things you've said, If T were sure your compliments weren’t meant to turn my head, | If L were sure t Tinooneny HARE Cross-tempenep Customer (with grievance) —I—I—T can't find words to express my disgust with you, Saanr Assistant—May I sel you a dictionary, sir? you'd be true, and | never would forget me, A Phoney Incident | | Vd marry you (if T were sure my ' present spouse would let me). FT ue chambernail, stast rag in ‘ ( Funny bones / fitted apartment of the de pcs tet: ear: } “It's perfectly shoeking the w current occupant of this 4 ft it.’ she murmured to herself as she set gaily about her work, Iam | ming Chopin's jolly little “PF March” to herself, the wh After finish sweeping she took a wire w from the wal watt or two which were flyi yg her dustin the room in large numbers. ently, she said, * «TD guess it looks more ohmy now,” and walking to the door shoutec ext!” in her best barber shop voi From guard to guard, down one corric word ind up another echoed the Next!" until it reached the n who picked up a ase Tet ome have Tn about twenty minutes the phone rang. “He * said the war- den in his typical j ie Sing Sing “We lave just finished,” said the voice at the other end of the wire, “with the viet 78,410, and “Dp— eamed the warden “Will this service never improve? Another wrong number. That's the Abie sce de BE. F. G2 third to-day.” Carroll comicbooks.com