Judge, 1928-06-16 · page 7 of 36
Judge — June 16, 1928 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical humor pieces typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine: 1. **"Correct Form for a Wedding Invitation"** mocks overly formal wedding etiquette through an exaggerated invitation, with the joke that the preliminary is to a "divorce" rather than a wedding. 2. **"In Every Town"** features brief jokes about common social types—visitors, natives, and eavesdropping (a husband's wife falling from a tree). 3. **"Acrobats, Etc."** and related sections present punny dialogue about theatrical performers and acrobatics. 4. The cartoons satirize social pretension, marital discord, and theatrical life. The humor relies on wordplay and stereotypes about marriage instability and social climbing typical of the era's satirical magazines.
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Her Current Husnaxp—Prithee, Love—why are you sad? | Wirr—Oh, I was just thinking of five or siz of my old husbands. In Every Town Visitor—Any payroll bandits in this town? Native—Lots of them; I mar- ried one myself. “Eavesdropping again,” said Adam as his wife fell out of a tree, Farner or Mvcn-Marr has heen accustomed? First Divorcren Wirre—TI/eavens, wful gold-diggers about those tep Davanter—So you want to marry another wife! Helen? Can you afford to pay her the alimony to which she JUDGE ; Correct Form for a Wedding Invitation Mr. and Mrs, Waldo Murp Request the pleasure of your company at the preliminary to the divorce of their daughter PHORBE HEBE from | Mr. Alphonse Gussbauer | on Wednesday, the ‘Twenty-fifth of June Nineteen Hundred and Twenty tight at Eight O'clock Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Two Vhumph Street New York. —Grrarp Coscnover Let not thy second husband know what alimony thy first hus- | band payeth. Have you read There ought to be a lax— Acrobats, Etc. Trained seals aren't the only ones that flop in vaudeville, the sneezing Spring—Heard song? Fever—No; what is it? Spring—"My Heart Stood Still.” Fever—Why—what the— —"I took one Spring—Su look-katchoo !" Theatrical Manager's Spouse I've just discovered that you have That's all right—No. 2 Com pany. On the road at present.” comicbooks.com