Judge, 1928-09-22 · page 8 of 36
Judge — September 22, 1928 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This *Judge* page contains two unrelated satirical pieces: **"Dog's Life"** (top): A cartoon showing animals in human situations. The caption reads "Well, she's supposed to be a Russian noblewoman!" The humor derives from the absurdity of dressing a dog in human clothing and presenting it as aristocracy—typical early 20th-century social satire mocking pretension. **"The 100 Best Tricks in Football"** (right): A humorous essay by Richard S. Wallace that parodies overly complex football play explanations. It describes an intentionally ridiculous and nonsensical play (the "Yale Locke") involving card-shuffling, dropped handkerchiefs, and the left halfback deliberately running the wrong direction while making funny faces to distract opponents. The joke satirizes how incomprehensibly complicated football strategy was presented to readers. **"He Ought to Retire"** (bottom): A brief joke about laundry workers being paid per button removed, implying they profit from buttons coming off clothes during washing.
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JUDGE | DOG'S LIFE | ‘| all {\\Ce iile* \ Elderly gentleman, whose % making the best of it. The 100 Best Tricks in Football IV.—The Yale Locke or Nor- man’s Woe. This play has baffled scientists all over the world for years and years, and once it gets a hold on him the patient can only hope that he will be run over by a boat or something to save actually dying from it. In essence, its co: ect perform: ance depends largely upon. the skill of the left If-back, for it is he who must bear the brunt of dealing and shuffling the cards. If he drops the handkerchief person behind whom it falls. is “i ind om demand a forfeit from the first good-looking swifty he meets at the fooball dance that night. The general idea is that the left halfback takes the ball from his little brother while the former isn’t looking. When his little brother, who is wsually one of the heavy forward linemen, ns to cry, the referee, if he has any heart at all, may be counted upon to yell at the Halfback, who pre- tends he is seared and begins to run toward his own goal line. Meanwhile, he makes funny sat his room-mate who is sit- with his fiancée in Row X ‘The whole idea of this fellow run- ning the wrong w f + pretending he is seared and g such fun ny faces all the time, gets the other team laughing so they all roll over on the field and hold their sides, roaring with hearty but dig nified hilarity. While they are thus diverted. the left halfback stops) making faces, turns about and runs the other way, this time carrying the ball over his opponents’ goal line for six or seven touchdowns and a tiger. —Rictitarn S. Wattace Motto for dry agents—Let us pry. He Ought to Retire We don’t know how the button remover in a laundry is remuncr ated, but if he gets paid by the button he makes plenty, comicbooks.com j | | 4 { | | | i 1