Judge, 1928-11-03 · page 4 of 36
Judge — November 3, 1928 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine This page contains several unrelated humor pieces rather than a unified political cartoon: **"Setting-up exercises for laundry button-smashers"** depicts men doing calisthenics while holding mallets, satirizing overly vigorous laundry work that damages buttons. **"Panic Paean"** is a poem about someone's panic when showing guests various items (pottery, book, liner oceanic, etc.), suggesting anxiety about impressing others. **"Good Work"** is a brief joke about detectives catching nine innocent people while missing the actual murderer—satirizing law enforcement incompetence. **"Lucky Boys"** comments that smokers don't know what causes their cough but assumes it's something harmless. The bottom cartoon shows a woman telling a man she won't become a "tensorial artist in name only"—likely joking about women's hairstyling professions or refusing cosmetic work.
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| JUDGE Setting-up exercises for laundry button-smashers, Panic Paean I showed him Grecian pottery And household wares Germanic, And everything I showed him he Decided ws a “panic.” A book, a play, A liner oceanic A building, garden, — putting green— He labeled all a “panic.” a magazine, Of measurements.‘ I let it sock his empty crock— Oh, boy, it was a panic! —A.L.L. Lucky Boys We di gressmen and senators smoke, but it must be something that doesn’t affect their wind. 't know what most con- I ACTUARY CONFI- DENTIALLY HOODOO YAWL TINKLE WIN DERELICTION ALAR HERB A Problem When we were a little boy in the third grade just before they burned the schoolhouse down, we had this problem in. our arith metic book: “If you went out with eleven dollars and bought a pair of shoes for two dollars, a suit of clothes for seven dollars, took ten rides on the merry-go-round for fifty your girl to a good time with fifty cents and came home with a quarter after buying a new hat, how much did the hat cost?” That was a dif ficult problem to us then, But it would be more of a problem to day. s, treate —R. C. O. Good Work First Detective—Did you catch the man who did the murder Second Ditto—No, but we've caught nine who didn’t. “Yes, sir—I made up my mind I wasn’t going ‘o be a tonsorial artist in name only.” comicbooks.com