Judge, 1928-04-14 · page 16 of 36
Judge — April 14, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor column mixing short jokes and cartoon gags. The top cartoons satirize 1920s-era concerns: 1. **Auto trade-in scene**: A salesman has just told a customer the pitiful allowance on his old car, causing the customer to have a fit. The joke mocks the poor value dealers offered for used vehicles. 2. **Airplane scene**: A "former drum major" attempts to propel his homemade plane, satirizing amateur aviation stunts and the eccentric confidence of early aviation enthusiasts. 3. **Golf/ditch scene**: A woman stuck in a ditch claims she doesn't know "the words for it"—implying she can't curse enough to express her frustration, a gentle joke about women's propriety. The right column contains brief one-liners satirizing silent films, plastic surgery, movie-theater behavior, ventriloquism, Scottish frugality, lawyers, and sales practices—typical light social satire of the era. Overall, harmless period humor targeting consumer culture and emerging modern anxieties.
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Cor—Hey, what's the matter? Avro Satesmax—It’s all right, officer; he’s having the usual fit—I just told him what we'd allow him on his old car in a trade. —— ek, Lapy—I'll never get out of this ditch, hoy—I don't know the words for it. GAGS TO RICHES By R. C. O'Butes You Said It The movies will never be rea silent drama until they elimina the subtitles. Description May—Whiat does she look like ? Belle—She's got a face that looks as if a plastic surgeon started to lift it but was inter rupted. Maybe Taxicabs Will Be Padlocked Next Shows are sometimes closed by the District Attorney for one reason or another. But yet you never hear of a movie house being shut up. Yet think of all the love scenes and necking seen in those places—especially in’ the last few rows. Proper Wifey (during argument) — What are you doing there? Hubby—I'm writing an ap plause card I'm going to send you. You're broadcasting, aren't you? We wonder what happens when an absent-minded ventriloquist takes his girl on his lap. A Scotchman gave a penny to ablindman, He needed the pencil. When lawyers split a hair you may be sure it’s somebody else's hair. Force of Habit I went into a cigar store and purchased a cigar lighter and the clerk tossed me a couple of packets of matches with it. Just a Graph The stock market goes comicbooks.com