Judge, 1925-07-04 · page 22 of 36
Judge — July 4, 1925 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor compilation page featuring jokes and comic strips from college humor magazines (Yale Record, Princeton Tiger, etc.). The content reflects 1920s social satire: **Top cartoon**: A couple walking; the joke mocks social climbing—a ditch digger calling his work "banking business" to sound respectable. **"The Program" poem**: Satirizes theater audiences' impatience during intermissions. The joke is that readers have absorbed all the *advertisements* (Djer-Kiss cosmetics, Whitman's candy, Kelly's hosiery, etc.) but the show hasn't started—mocking both commercial saturation and audience frustration. **Bottom cartoon**: Shows a couple discussing marriage as an "institution"—the wife's punchline plays on "institution" meaning both "established practice" and "mental institution," suggesting married life is confinement. Other jokes target women's fashion choices, social pretension, and gender dynamics—typical collegiate humor of the era, somewhat dated in sensibility but recognizable as period satire on consumerism, courtship, and class.
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“Murphy certainly is getting high hat these days.” “Why, how is thatY ditch digger.” “Well, he calls it the banking business.” —Co.catr BANTER He's only a The Program! I= found out why Djer-Kiss is best it, How Helmars stand the acid test, Why Whitman's candy sells with west... Why doesn’t that damn show start! I know that Kelly’s do not slip, That Bulldog garters hold their grip, That a Lady Kate isan A-1 slip . . . Why doesn’t that damn show start! The crossword puzzles I have donc; Onyx hosiery will not run; Rogers Peet is next to none . . . Why doesn’t that damn show start! I’ve learned just what the Men will Wear; I've read the jokes in black despair; I'd like to know why I shouldn't swear! Why doesn’t that damn show start! —Yale Record Cad First Shade—All my illusions about St. Peter have been destroyed. Second Shade—Go on. “When I came to the pearly gates he swore at me. “What!” “Go to hell,” he said. —Yale Record Why do women spend so much money getting just the right curl put in their hair—and then wear these short dresses? —Wesleyan Wasp Teacher—Oswald, “Spell of the Yukon’? Oswald—Y-u-k-o-n. —Oklahoma Whirlwind what is the First Drunk—My friend’s like a fountain pen. Second Drunk—Howzat? “Allus runnin’ dry—and comin’ to be filled.” —Michigan Gargoyle sae A woman dvesn’t always get the last word—sometimes she is talking to another woman. —Pitt Panther a - Caru—Still, in spite of what you say, I think marriage is a pretty good institution. Carvorra—Yes, but who wants to lice in an institution? —Princeton TicER comicbooks.com