Judge, 1928-08-04 · page 4 of 36
Judge — August 4, 1928 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several disconnected satirical vignettes typical of Judge's format: **"Freedom of Speech"** depicts a baker's boy delivering doughnuts while two men discuss allowing the boy's wife to speak freely about traveling to Europe. The joke plays on domestic gender dynamics—husbands controlling wives' speech. **"Restoration"** jokes about editors recycling old material due to lack of new content. **"For Sunday Dinner"** contains brief quips about social etiquette and necking (kissing). The central cartoon shows a chaotic telephone scene labeled "Telephone call from a high-pressure salesman"—satirizing aggressive sales tactics. **"Severe,"** **"He Knew,"** and other sections mock modern parenting, courtship customs, and marital assumptions about predictable meal sources (delicatessens). The page reflects early 20th-century social anxieties about changing gender roles, commercialism, and courtship norms.
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JUDGE Freedom of Speech “Your wife is talking of going to Europe this summer. Have ny objections 2” d certainly not. Let her talk. It's tough on the Chinese sky- writers: They have to fly upside down and backwards. A politician doesn’t need to fool all of the people some of the time As Oxe Baker's Boy to Anotuer or some of the people all of the “Wait till we pitch one more ringer and then we'll deliver the - needs is to fool a doughnuts!” Restoration First Editor—We haven't got y new bright sayings to use this ond Ditto—Well, polish up some of the old ones. For Sunday Dinner Two's company; the rest are relations. There's so much necking in hall- ays, people have to knock on their own doors before going out. Severe The modern parents’ idea of punishing their daughter for ing out late at night is to take her key away from her, so that when she comes home she has to ring the bell and they have to get up and let her in, He Knew Wife—Before you married me you never even” ate regularly. Now at least you always know where your next meal is coming from. Hubby—Sure—from the deli- catessen. Now, colored typewriters to brighten the office—neat, colored Somehow the auto sheik can al- phones, and from there on ’til we get something like this! ways find a place to park. comicbooks.com