Judge, 1926-03-20 · page 3 of 36
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# "The Absent-Minded Bride" This cartoon satirizes the absent-mindedness of a newly married woman. The illustration shows a bride (identifiable by her wedding dress and "Just Married" sign on the car) who has apparently forgotten her groom—he's still in the car while she walks away with a bouquet, seemingly unaware of what she's supposed to be doing. The humor plays on the stereotype of brides being so absorbed in wedding festivities or romance that they lose situational awareness. The cartoon accompanies a page of brief humorous anecdotes titled "Judge," typical of this satirical magazine's format. The joke relies on exaggeration of female distraction and the absurdity of forgetting one's spouse immediately after marriage.
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‘*LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS’? JUDGE ERSITY professor who heard that was going to publish an Absent- minded Number claims that he wrote us and objected to our printing any more jokes about absent-minded professors. He later discovered, however, that he forgot to mail the letter. Rad T Is claimed that in fifty years England and America will need separate dictionaries in order to understand each other. The difficulty has already become very apparent in such mat- ters as disarmament and the price of rubber. tae orE than $11,000,000 worth of Chicago- made laundry soap was exported to foreign countries during 1925. There are no statistics on the quantity of Washington- made soft soap similarly disposed of. sos T 1s claimed that the first saxophone was made some time during the Sixteenth Century. Music lovers are wont to point out that at that time the Spanish Inquisition was very much in vogue. AS inventor recently transmitted a motion picture and a verbal description of it at the same time. It is not believed, however, that he can secure a patent on the verbal description idea, as movie audiences have been doing that for years. soe A ¥ English novelist claims to have gotten most of his ideas for stories while driving a taxicab in New York. This, perhaps, ac- counts for his tendency to run down all Americans. eer HREE convivial members of a New York ight Club recently conducted a rather cessful liquor raid on one of the city’: When the police raid a night not news. But when a night club raids a police station that’s news! sae 1st recently conducted a series of xperiments to determine how long fish could live in hot water. One way of finding out would be to look up the dates on their marriage licenses. The absent-minded bride. comicbooks.com