Judge, 1925-08-29 · page 24 of 36
Judge — August 29, 1925 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **humor/joke compilation page** from Judge magazine featuring college-themed comedic quips and cartoons, likely from the 1920s based on style and references. **Key content:** - **"The Hussy"** satirizes changing women's fashion—short dresses, rolled stockings, and "sheer transparency"—portraying modern women as scandalously immodest. The punchline targets a woman who left home *without earrings*, mocking exaggerated moral panic about female liberation. - **Multiple one-liners** play on college life: a scarecrow defending corn (Shakespeare reference), student wisecracks about halitosis and beer strength, and romantic misadventures. - **"Drama in One Act"** depicts a couple where the man's poverty triggers silence until he reveals his name is "Helen"—implying she accepts him only because she mistook him for a wealthy woman. The humor reflects **1920s anxieties** about women's independence, Prohibition-era drinking, and class concerns, presented through collegiate wit typical of Judge's educated readership.
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“Why the scarecrow habiliments, Hamlet?” “Great Dane in the morning! Cymbeline, to keep birds like you off my corn, of course.” -—Wituiams Purrte Cow PID Prof—What is it. that human beings have that none of the rest of the animal species have? Student—Halitosis, —West Virginia Moonshine The Hussy Where’er I go, where’er I turn What boldness do I see. The girls to-day will never learn To show their modesty. T’ve seen the girls with dresses short And hose rolled to the knee, And others still who make their forte Just sheer transparency. — But, sight of sights, I saw to-day, A brazen thing unfearing— A shameless damsel, blithe and gay, Who left at home each earring. —Amherst Lord Jeff PID “Who is the greatest modern ex- ponent of his native dialect?” ty ——f “Come across now. Where did you put them diamonds?” “I shoved ’em back, sir.” “Back where?” “Back with the rest of the deck.” —Pitt Panther “TI hear you’re keeping a keg of beer in your room.” “Yes, I’mtaking it to gain strength.” “Any results?” “Marvelous! When I first got the thing I couldn't even move it, and now T can roll it all around the floor.” —Yate Recorp es He CHEER Cr. Another Flash “Whither away, stranger? What wouldst?” cheerioed St. Peter, as he leaned over the pearly gates. “Gosh, let me in,” muttered the wandering soul of convict No. 999, just released from the electric chair, “IT just had the shock of my life.” —Colgate Banter SID “Jane reminds me so much of a public office.” “How so?” “She’s always secking the man.” —Michigan Gargoyle Drama in One Act She—Well— She—You’re rather shy. He—I haven’t a cent. More silence. She (desperately)—Oh, dear! He (in ecstasy)—Helen! And so they were married. —Lehigh Burr —Norre Dame Jucc.er » comicbooks.com