Judge, 1926-09-18 · page 22 of 36
Judge — September 18, 1926 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief comedic anecdotes and jokes typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines. The cartoons and quips mock social conventions and domestic life: **Key humor targets:** - **Dating/Romance**: Men's shallow preferences (judging women by clothing or appearance) - **Golf culture**: Absurd ignorance among the upper class about the sport's basic rules - **Newlyweds**: A wife amused by her cook's desperation (using cooking wine and spaghetti instead of proper materials) - **Taxicabs**: Impatience with transportation delays - **Small living spaces**: Urban apartment living too cramped to read newspapers - **Ethnic stereotypes**: A Scotsman's miserliness (frying bacon in laundry soap to prevent shrinkage); a person of mixed German and wooden-leg heritage (disability as punchline) The humor relies on exaggeration, domesticity, and casual prejudice typical of the era. Most jokes target either romantic incompetence or working-class/immigrant eccentricity.
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May—I'm going to call our new girl “Olive.” Pore—Why zat? | “Because I’m learning to like her.” Jouxs Hopkins Biack anv | Bue Jay | | | | | 1 used to love my girl just because of the clothing she wore —but it's all off now. Gettysburg Cannon Baul “Ever play golf, Hortens “Merey, no, dasmer, I don't know a thing about the game. I dow't even know which end of the caddy you hold when you hit the ball.” —Minnesota Ski U Mah ey “Oh, Mandy is too funny for any- thing,” exclaimed the newly wed, returning from the kitchen to the dining-room where hubby was wait- ing hungrily for his evening meal. “The cook is so funny. The cooking wine is all gone. and she’s trying to nit herself a sweater out of | spa- ghetti.” Wesleyan Wasp | “Bill has nothing on his mind but girls, girls, girls!” “Yeh, Bill certainly is a broad-minded fell: as lows Frivon 20 Student (At chec You won't have r in for a half hour? But great Scott! I have to get down town the worst way. Attendant—Then take a yellow. Towa Frivol Sxap—Why did you move out of that flat you just rented? Sxaprer—Oh, it was too small to read the Sunday papers in! -Toroxto Gosix woe A Scotchman was seen frying his bacon in Lux to keep it from shrink- ing. Wesleyan Wasp Od Slim — You're What's th’ mz Slimmer. lookin’ ter, sick? No, jus’ recoverin’ from a painful operation. What was it?” “Th’ doctor jus’ took ten bones out of my hand!” Middlebury Blue Baboon tough. soe “What. nationality are you?” “Three-fourths German.” “What's the other fourth?” “A wooden leg.” —Jowa Frivol comicbooks.com