Judge, 1928-09-15 · page 17 of 36
Judge — September 15, 1928 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate humorous pieces typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines: 1. **"This is the Katz Pajamas"** (top): A retail scene where a salesman remarks on preserving peaches and discusses coffee beans with customers. The humor relies on wordplay and observational jokes about domestic life. 2. **"It All Depends on the Angle"** (middle): A brief anecdote about learning from others' mistakes—a man swears off aviation after a crash; the narrator claims superiority by learning from *his* experience instead of firsthand. 3. **"Nursery Rhyme"** (bottom) and **Football Coach cartoon** (lower right): Light verse and a joke about a newly hired college football coach refusing to punch a time-clock on principle, despite claiming to offer "good value." The page exemplifies Judge's mix of gentle domestic humor, wordplay, and mild social commentary rather than hard political satire. The cartoons mock middle-class pretension and stubborn pride humorously rather than controversially.
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darn contraption started in’ to swoop, and swooped the wrong way, down instead of up, and U cle Harvey's friend fell out, and Uncle Harvey says that that was the origin of the pression “one fell swoop.” So now popular ex- far as being scared of freezi death went, he said, he wouldn't be afraid of that, because he knew, he said, that “many are cold but few are frozen.” What he really felt like doing, Uncle Harvey said, confidentially, was something practical for a ving into the sta- tionery business. Aunt) Abner squelched that pretty quick, how- ever, by saying th change—like t so far as she was concerned he already yas in the stationery business—he hadn't budged from one spot for seven- teen years, Ho hum. Well, here I the bottom of the stor: don’t si to have much, As a matter of fact, I was just about to get started, when here Twas at the end. And any- how [certainly can’t be expected to keep on writing if Uncle Har vey can’t think of anything to do for me to write about, can 1? Well, can I? Well, then. —Jaguita It All Depends on the Angle You Learn From Here is a fellow who became interested in aviation and went up 1 while he a-erash and he was almost 4. Then he said I am through with air- planes.” He is a smart man, He learned from experience. But [am even smarter. I learned from experience, too. But it was his experience. —Rk.C.O. Nursery Rhyme A lass in a nautical hamlet Was nipped on the toe by a clam- le! But being refined, With a Puritan mind, She uttered not even a damnlet! I thought of this one while preserving peaches, so if it “jars” on you don't mind—ha, ha, ha. “Do you keep coffee in the bean?” asked fussy old Mrs, Treadwell. “No, madam, brains!” was the grocer’s snide reply as he stole a handful of raisins out of a barrel. Don't you love to sit quietly by and study human nature, folks? Newsy Acgeinen Cotter Foorpant Stan (to coach)—I’m a practical man and I mean to give good value for me wages, but as a matter of principle I'll he darned if I'll punch a time-clock! comicbooks.com