Judge, 1926-04-24 · page 4 of 36
Judge — April 24, 1926 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains multiple brief humorous pieces typical of early Judge magazine: **"The Diver"** (Nate Collier): A short story about encountering a female diver surfacing from underwater operations. The humor relies on the unexpected appearance and the diver's excited exclamation about escaping a submarine ride—playing on early-20th-century novelty of submarine tourism. **"One for the Cookbook"**: A brief rhyme about eating pie and its digestive effects—simple bathroom humor. **"Rest"**: A one-liner about holiday crowds. **"Loving Couples"** (Wayne G. Haisley): Dialect humor listing affectionate exclamations couples make, rendered phonetically in exaggerated speech patterns. **Bottom cartoon**: Shows people at a beach; the caption jokes about hat-wearing revealing one's social pretensions—satirizing class consciousness about fashion accessories. These represent Judge's typical mix of light social satire and domestic humor.
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The Diver [Is sitting on the beach. The waves, like tongues of baby kittens, lapped the stones at my feet. Tiny waves, mere ripples on a great ocean. ‘The sea far out was as calm as a bobbed-haired bandit robbing a delicatessen store. ‘The shimmer of the sun on the glassy sea was beautiful and I was soon lost. in’ reverie. All at once bubbles appeared about thirty feet from the shore, and soon a diver in a diver’s suit came to the surface. I did not know that diving operations were going on in those waters, so L approached the diver b who w his time unfastening the headpiece. It was soon lifted and I beheld a beautiful girl with golden No more arguments. curls. ‘Thank heaven, I’m ashore at last,” she cried, “I just walked back | One for the Cookbook Bn from a submarine ride Nate Collier When grapefruit is cut up And eaten like pie, You get more in your mouth, AN Drink 2 R 4 tunes, 3) 3 vy i fel , Fo & R happiness, os ‘\ And less in your eve TL Aker, GD /\ Don't drink 2 X'S. [} i JUDGE pays $5 for each one printed. | Rest “To-morrow is a holiday,” pro- claimed the calendar. Whereupon all the people in the city rushed to the country and all the people in the country rushed to the city. | Loving Couples | They're Seen Together So Much! | ey, Hey. There, there. | Well, well. fl Come, come. Dear, dear. | Walla Walla. | Ha, ha! Tut, tut. My, my! So-so. Here, here! Hark, hark. Sh-sh—. Put-put. Chow chow. Yes, yes. “But, I can’t see a thing in this hat.” ; z H No, no. “Madame, when you wear our hats you're supposed to have seen | H Wayne G. Haisley everything.” j 2 comicbooks.com