Judge, 1928-07-21 · page 8 of 36
Judge — July 21, 1928 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page: "Gags to Riches" This page collects humorous one-liners and cartoon gags typical of Judge's satirical format. **Top cartoon**: Shows an elephant and mahout in India. The joke mocks colonial stereotypes—the maharajah explains he doesn't use the small elephant today but polishes "the two big ones," treating massive animals as casually as servants might handle possessions. **Middle cartoon**: A car scene jokes about radio speakers containing a mouse, then pivots to mock radio conventions (likely the 1920s-30s broadcasting industry), suggesting the "conventions" were as annoying as vermin. **Bottom cartoon**: A woman tells a police officer she stabbed her husband with a can-opener during a cooking argument—dark humor playing on domestic disputes and kitchen tool absurdity. The scattered jokes throughout mock radio quality, foolish questions (asking where someone was vaccinated), office workers stabbing pen-point demonstration boards, and laundry pins. The humor is broadly satirical, targeting everyday frustrations, emerging technology (radio), and social pretensions rather than specific political figures.
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JUDGE GAGS TO RICHES By R. C. O'Brtex If the radio plays Clown, Laugh.” and 3 “Laugh, 2 owant an encore, tune incon another station Popular Song Title “He said when they got mar ried he'd bring home the bacon, bat she found out it was a lotta Why Cravrrecus Ane Seaner ix TNpta Mananasan—Oh, I’m not using the little one today, Abdul What Was Wrong? lah—polish the two big ones, We found out what was wrong with our radio, and we don’t mean the broadcasting studios, Something was wrong with it it was the loud speaker, ‘There Was a mouse in it, as we discov ered when we took the thing apart. Tt had probably jumped in there to escape the eat; or may- be it thought there was cheese around; although we always had it turned off at night. Just think: Stuck in a loud speaker. It made us feel badly. How the poor rodent must have suffered before it finally perished. You know, that was the time the conventions were on, ‘There are songs that never die. But it isn’t the radio's fault. “Ah-h—if you had another one like that, they'd make a lovely set of book-ends.”” You Can See for Yourself Foolish questions: Asking a girl where she was vaccinated. We know what these fellows who sit in windows demonstrat- ing the wonders of pen points by jabbing them into a board do with them after they get through with them. They give them to the post office. The laundry has to put pins in your shirt when they return it to you. What clse would hold it to- gether? “Oh, officer, I just had an argument with my husband—he claimed I couldn't cook, and I stabbed him with the can-opener.” comicbooks.com i