Judge, 1926-11-20 · page 10 of 36
Judge — November 20, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains three separate pieces of humor from *Judge* magazine: **"A Game 'Chicken'"** (top): A cartoon about a prize fight between boxers Dempsey and Tunney, followed by a joke about two clubmen arguing over heat. One suggests "icing the thermometer" (lowering it artificially); the other responds violently, resulting in a bloody chin—satirizing absurd logic and masculine vanity in upper-class clubs. **"The Girl Friend"** (bottom): A dialect-heavy monologue in phonetic working-class speech. A woman describes dating an "outdoor boy" without a hat who takes her fishing and to an aquarium instead of traditional date venues. The humor relies on class stereotypes—mocking both the unsophisticated suitor and the woman's exaggerated speech patterns. The final cartoon labeled "MAN" shows his "beginning" (courting) versus "his end" (a wrecked car), suggesting male recklessness leads to disaster. The page reflects 1920s attitudes: boxing enthusiasm, class-based humor, and gender stereotypes presented as entertainment.
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JUDGE HEH). A GAME “CHICKEN” Everybody is betting on Dempsey to lick Gene Tunney, but you just wait. Speaking of prize fights, have you heard this one? Rosenzweig and MacMonnies, two young clubmen, were lounging in their club on a very hot day. “I don’t know what we're going to do if it gets much hotter, Stephen,” declared MacMonnies. “Why not ice the thermometers?” sug- gested the witty Scot. When they carried him out his chin was bleeding. The Girl Friend “Bovrave me, Bessie, wenna guy tell ya ease a sportsman don be gettin a idear ease a sport, cauz a ony sport em guys gets is frum thair wives un mothers un other wimmin folks. “Well, iss lil pickerel gess caugh ton my hook dancin atta Eeelight thother night an ee swallows ma line so T hooks im an nen ee offers ta buy me a coupla sinkers an enuff coffee ta float em. I thought ee wuz cereal, bud ee sez ‘cancha taka joke?” So I took im home with me an ee behaved like a lil sojjer.. Evvy once inna whi.e eede starta camp. Buthen Ide juss put uppa ‘no trespassin’ sign an showed himma waita go home. “Onna way uptha house ee strings tha beads about how ease a out- door boy an ats why ce goes with- outta hat. Yess it tiz! wear no hat fer fe: hairs an ee hate » doogh 1 losin a coupla part with em so ce combs em straight back. Bus- sides hatsa bein watched closer in the troughs ce eats at. “Bunevathaless, ce tells me case fonna fishin an how wood die lika go with im sum day. An, well, Tain neva caught em kina fish before an ya know how a girl ul taka chanct on annathin one sinna while so I sez ‘okay, budd I gotta get home at ha-bass seven,’ budd casa nuther wunna em guise at cant neva sec joke. “So at Sadidy ee shows up an ee don look like case gonna do much fishin. But we starts an en comesa dawn. At guy takes to tha Ac quarium fer tha P. M. Ats is idear afishin. Is cea piker! Don Imi age ta getta swellest bunch yells help ya eva hoida? “Bud I : dough nose 1 ys say what I goil ble ta hoit er so I look inta evvy popposition. ve ya pennies fer a telephone tisle be waitin ta hear how you an at pretzel bender ya gotta struggle with to-nights gonna corn- heef-an-cabbage to one anuther. S'long!” Carroll Carroll call ¢ re night cap is apt to put a fellow to sleep for good. comicbooks.com