Judge, 1925-06-06 · page 27 of 36
Judge — June 6, 1925 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines humor columns with period advertisements. The left side features short jokes and quips from various college humor publications (Yale Record, Princeton Tiger, etc.), typical of Judge's "Leaders" section—witty one-liners on relationships, student life, and social observations. The cartoons themselves are modest: a figure in athletic pose, a sleeping student, and a man with a small car illustrate these brief jokes about romance, military service, and exercise. The right side advertises two products addressing common male anxieties of the era: Forhan's gum treatment (addressing pyorrhea, a then-feared gum disease) and "Yes Anatomik" shoes (claiming to prevent "flat foot" and "fallen arches"—conditions associated with manual laborers and considered unfashionable). Both ads employ pseudo-scientific language to market solutions to bodily "defects" that concerned middle-class readers. Together, the page reflects 1920s-30s concerns: courtship rituals, male vanity, and medicalized anxiety about physical appearance.
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