Judge, 1927-06-18 · page 5 of 36
Judge — June 18, 1927 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine Satire This page contains several unrelated humor items typical of Judge's format: **Top section ("What's Sauce for the Goose"):** Brief satirical exchanges about marital dynamics and servant employment—social humor of the era. **Middle comic strip:** A three-panel sequence about a "generous bystander" in a pool who keeps losing coins to the water. The satire mocks naive charitable impulses or public displays of generosity. **"Peter Piper" section:** A tongue-twister joke about prohibition—referenced as an "agent" catching someone with pickled peppers, likely a coded reference to alcohol smuggling during Prohibition era. **Bottom illustration:** Shows bathers at a beach with a "Coast Resort Note" about sharks and a college glee club. This appears to be lighthearted vacation humor. The page reflects 1920s social concerns: servant problems, prohibition enforcement, and leisure culture.
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JUDGE “What's Sauce for the Goose” Vane GENEROUS BYSTANDER, “Will your husband accompany WHO HAS you to Paris?” BEEN RISING 43 4% “Hardly. Taking a husband | dows ha to Paris would be like carrying of coals to Newcastle.” Always One Hundred Per Cent Blink—I know a better game than this Ask Me Another business “ * aii gh 5 FINDS HE HAS Blank—What's it called? “Ask i We Me to Have Another.” Nos iR FAREY S&S All that is needed for the solution of the servant problem is for some employment agency to start a Cook of the Month club. Sts Host—How does that Rye strike you? It’s genuine pre- war stuff. est—Pre what war — the icaraguan? —— Peter Piper : Prohibition agent—We are in- formed that Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Houscholder—You've got me, i boys. I made home brew out of ‘em. You'll find it in the cellar. First’ Sophomore — Here's a letter commencing “Yours of even date.” What's it mean? “Must be from some dame you took out on a Dutch treat basis.” L288 If writers and poets starve in attics it’s their own fault. There’s Sharks troubled the bathers at Sea Crest, N. J., till a College much more inspiration to be Glee Club drove the critters away. found in cellars. Coast Resort Note comicbooks.com