Judge, 1926-07-03 · page 24 of 36
Judge — July 3, 1926 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor/joke compilation page from Judge magazine, featuring various quips and comic bits typical of 1920s collegiate and social satire. **Key content:** The page collects one-liner jokes sourced from college newspapers (Georgia Tech, M.I.T., Penn, etc.), suggesting these were popular formats of campus humor. Topics include romantic courtship ("Father, so you want to marry my daughter?"), ethnic stereotypes (a "Scotch" joke playing on frugality), and contemporary social restrictions (West Virginia University banning silk stockings on female freshmen—the joke being this rule "socks" them hard). Visual elements include a drawing of a fashionably dressed couple and an illustration of chorus girls at a "Stage Entrance," captioned as "Seven little Follies girls in a 'Row'"—likely referencing the Ziegfeld Follies, a popular Broadway revue. The humor is mild social observation rather than sharp political satire: jokes about vanity, courtship anxieties, and college life absurdities.
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