Judge, 1928-05-12 · page 34 of 36
Judge — May 12, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge (circa 1928) contains several satirical humor pieces: **"Judge's Fifty-Fifty Contest No. 7"**: A cartoon shows a politician confronting a fisherman carrying a large fish, asking where he's going with "that haddock." The contest invites readers to supply a witty second line, offering $25 for the cleverest response. This is a participatory humor format popular in the era. **"The Unexpected Guest"**: A John Conacher drawing depicts an unexpected arrival at a modest home, likely satirizing social disruption or class tensions typical of period satire. **Humor snippets** throughout mock contemporary attitudes: college men denying women's equality, a hungover worker calling in sick, a Scotsman unable to escape an engagement, and a mother defending her son from corporal punishment—reflecting 1920s social debates about gender, work culture, and child-rearing. The page exemplifies Judge's formula: visual cartoons combined with short joke submissions, targeting educated, middle-class readers with mild social commentary and wordplay.
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Winner of Fifty-Fifty Contest No. 1 MRS. R. CRESSI Cuampersne Judge’s Fifty-Fifty Contest No. 7 ZR KEEFER Sweer Youne Titxe—Do you believe in the equality of the sexes? Harvard ann Princeton, in chorus -Not while man’s destiny is controlled by a icoman’s ayes and no's. He woke up with a “morning after the night before” head. So he rang up his employer's private number and said, “I'm afraid I shan't be at the office today, I'm | feeling very unwell Pouticiax—Iere, my good man! Where are you goiny with prea needn't that haddock? camethere FisnenMan — 20.2.0. eeeeeee pr seed trouble dd.” —Liverroot The stout old gentleman rush- UDGE will award a prize of ing along the platform, just for the cleverest second line in the above conversat ation, and write the funniest, snappiest lina you can think @ missed his train, and returned . puffing and blowing to be greeted In case two oF more persons submit the same winning line, §25 will be Purine ANC Delis Bo ve Breele’ awarded to each. Any reader of Jupce may compete. Any number of ay & porter with the question: lines may be submitted, but each one MUST be submitted on a POSTCARD, Missed your train, sir? or a sheet of paper the size of a I NOT BE CON: “No,” was the reply, “I didn’t SIDERED. No answers will be re 7 closes May 24, like the look of it, so I chased i 928. The winning answer will appear in the June 2ird issue of Jevce, be the look of it, so T chased it pear next week. Send your answers to the Fifty-Fifty Editor Of the platform: > West 43rd St, New York City. Mark the number of the —Biraixeuam Post Contest on the front of your envelope. “ I used t awaken myself by THE UNEXPECTED GUEST I sleep in the next room.” —Lestiae Korixen Zerrexa, Cologne A Scotsman beeame enga a girl who got so fat th wanted to break off the engage- ment. But the girl couldn't get the ring off, so he had to marry her. —Tit Bits Mother (to badly bruised son) —Didn't I tell you to count a hundred before you started fig! | ing? | Son—Yes, but Jack's mother told him only to count fifty. | —Grascow News | | “Sir,” wrote the indignant mother to the schoolmaster, “you There have been so many requests for copies of this beautiful drawing by John Conacher ™Mustn’t whack my Leslie, He that JUDGE ba 4 a limited number of Art Prints made for its readers. The print a isn’t used to it. We never hit him 15 inches inches and the same size as the original which was presented . “ - A af = Pe Coronel Lindbergh. "Atopy will be shipped to anyone open receipe ot FIFFY CENTS, at home except in self-defens Address Art Print Dept., Judge Pub. Co., Inc., 627 W. 43rd St, New York City. —Answers EDWARD LANGER PRINTING €O., INC, JaMalCa, ¥. ¥ comicbooks.com