Judge, 1928-11-03 · page 28 of 36
Judge — November 3, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines humor comics with period advertisements. The comics are brief jokes about marital discord and memory lapses—typical vaudeville-style humor of the era. One depicts a wife's stubbornness ("disputing the last word with the echo"), another shows a witness who can't remember all the insults he hurled, and a third involves a husband claiming he visited "the whole bally lot of 'em" (cemeteries) when questioned about his whereabouts. The advertisements reflect early 20th-century consumer products: Wrigley's Spearmint gum marketed as a mood-brightener for "tedious days," and Murine eye drops for strain from sewing—reflecting women's domestic labor. The dinner-off-the-mantelpiece joke plays on a sailing mishap resulting in a woman's exposure. The satire targets domestic relationships with gentle mockery of male forgetfulness and female assertiveness, while ads assume female readers concerned with household duties and appearance.
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