Judge, 1925-08-15 · page 4 of 37
Judge — August 15, 1925 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Page 2 Analysis: Judge Magazine Humor This page contains several brief humorous items rather than political cartoons: **"Fair Enough"**: A joke defining "dumb-waiter" as a man married ten years who still expects his wife to be punctual. **Jack Dempsey reference**: A quip about the boxer returning from his honeymoon, now willing to fight anyone. **"Funnybones"**: A joke about Ford automobiles lacking laziness—just "shiftless" operation. **"Parisian Chanson"**: A poem mocking advertising claims about garters, suggesting such promises are absurd. **"The pedestrian's millennium"**: A cartoon showing a car speeding past a pirate flag and a pedestrian, satirizing dangerous driving and reckless motorists as outlaws. The page primarily features light social satire about marriage, automobiles, and urban hazards rather than serious political commentary.
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“How'd you find the water, ol’ boy?” “No trouble a’tall—keep straight ahead.” Parisian Chanson N ADVERTISING man’s decree: “If you wore garters round your neck, You’d change them much more fre- quently” —And this may be the truth, by heck! But if we take him at his word, Assuming he’s a man who knows; It would be perfectly absurd To think that they’d hold up our hose. Carroll Here lies my friend, Martin Schucks. He turned on the gas So I'd get five bucks. auntie ety sli Se ‘pays $5 for each One print ett Fair Enough Small Boy—Pa, what is a dumb- waiter? Pa—A dumb-waiter, my boy, is a man who has been married ten years and still thinks his wife will be on time when she tells him to wait for her. PAS Jack Dempsey, returning from Europe after his honeymoon, says he’s willing to fight anybody now. And she looked like such a sweet girl. Rael A ship with 10,000 gallons of var- nish and shellac aboard recently docked in New York. The ultimate consumer wonders how on earth it got by the dry fleet. Sign on the back of a Ford: Not lazy—Just shiftless. The pedestrian’s millennium. comicbooks.com