Judge, 1928-07-14 · page 34 of 36
Judge — July 14, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This is a **humor and satire page** from Judge magazine featuring multiple cartoons and jokes targeting early 20th-century social absurdities. **Key content:** 1. **Left side**: Absurdist visual gags—a worm going west, a despondent wastebasket, arguing weather forecasters, gypsies, and a deliberately nonsensical "riddle" about a nurse and bum solving crosswords at crossroads. 2. **Center**: "Leaves from Myrtle's Sketch-book" by Harry Grant Dart—an illustrated joke about a husband refusing to leave home for the doctor, satirizing male stubbornness about medical care. 3. **Right side**: Social commentary including "Petticoat rule" (wives controlling husbands), a circus joke about an unusually intelligent monkey, and a motorist rushing to his solicitor—implying he's caused an accident. The page's title, "Cuckoo Land," signals that all content is deliberately irrational humor. The satire targets domestic relations, masculine anxiety, class pretensions, and social absurdity rather than specific political figures.
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