Judge, 1928-11-10 · page 10 of 36
Judge — November 10, 1928 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine presents several short humorous anecdotes typical of early 20th-century American comic magazines. The main cartoon depicts two men in matching outfits playing golf, captioned with a domestic complaint about yard maintenance. Below are illustrated jokes about social situations: one involves oysters in stew making a moral commentary; another jokes about a college student ("Spike") who lost his raccoon coat—a status symbol of 1920s collegiate fashion. The remaining text pieces satirize dating, education, and gender dynamics. "It Was Greek to Her" plays on a woman's lack of classical education and references a prom incident. Other jokes mock paternity liabilities, judicial sentencing, and female ignorance. A quote attributed to George Mitchell closes the page. The humor relies on period-specific references (raccoon coats, college culture, classical education gaps) and assumes reader familiarity with 1920s-era social conventions around class, education, and courtship.
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JUDGE > oysters found themselves in a bowl of stew one time. “Where are i replied the blushing bivalve. », Perry?” inquired one. “Ata church supper,” “Then what's the idea of having both of us here?” asked Marcus. A pretty comment indeed, on oysterian morals, Mitch Ado About Nothing | Betta Upsalong If six times six is ninety-one And four times four is twenty, If that’s the way you figger, son, Come on home, you've had plenty. —Spike didn’t come back this term, did he? —No. He lost his raccoon coat, It Was Greek to Her —How come they call her Little Greek? —Well, to ma long story painful, she was to a prom dance and it seems young Murphy, right tackle, give a grab at her on the dance floor and tore into ten yards of her wearin’ apparel and she, clutchin’ the remnants of her whereabouts about her, says to him, says she: “Murph, I'll crown you if Euripedes.” —I hear Bill had to leave col- n account his father went h How about his liabilities? hey went into five figures. How come? —His wife and four daugh- ters. —Give him an inch and he'll take the whole bottle. —What did the judge say to him? —He him a sentence with the word jail in it. She Never Knew She didn’t know Milton from Shelly, She didn’t know Greek; She was a flop, was Nellie, Because her best friend wouldn't tell her. Latin from —You can always tell a coll boy—but it will go in one y and out the other. —Grorce Mitcnene comicbooks.com