Judge, 1929-01-12 · page 13 of 36
Judge — January 12, 1929 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **multiple short jokes and puns** typical of Judge's humor format, rather than political cartoons. The content includes: 1. **Theater gossip jokes** about chorus girls and beauty treatments 2. **A Kiwanis Club joke** about a member who makes "fire crackers" 3. **Rural dialect humor** ("Haow's thet sono") about a barber's business 4. **A extended pun** on "One Kiss Before We Part" sung as a barber's song, playing with similar-sounding words 5. **A Chinese servant pun** about minding "peas and queues" (playing on "peas" vs. "peace" and the queue hairstyle) 6. **Two illustrated cartoons**: one showing boxers on skates (mocking "action" entertainment), another showing someone wrapping tree limbs in stockings (nature-lover sentimentality) The editorial comment about strikers being "always riot" suggests mild political commentary, but the page is primarily **light entertainment humor**—puns, wordplay, and gentle social observation rather than sharp satire. The audience appears to be middle-class readers enjoying clean, family-friendly jokes.
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JUDGE | | Well, once more 1 take my pun in hand to earn my weakly pays... First’) Chorine — The leading lady is going to pieces lately. Second — Yes, it's the con- | founded boos that’s getting her! | His'n—1 hear she's taking beauty treatments. Hern — Yes, she's Ardenly pursuing her lost youth. " | | This one should go off better... | Member of Kiscanis — And | what does Brother Hoofle do? , A | ‘Brother Hoofte—I make ‘fire: Putting the fighters on skates to increase the action for bored | crackers. boxing fa Kiwanis (in unison) — Well, well, well, brother—how's the racket? Here's some more that) are positively barberous .. ‘Haow’s thet) sono” yourn makin’ out with his new barber shop, Hiram? “Oh, he’s combing along right well, thank ye, Silas!” Song of the Sentimental Bar- be “One Kiss Before You Go!" No, no, no, that doesn't seem right. Here it is... Song of the Sentimental Barber One Kiss Before We Par PAT re? Or is it part”? I, who cares? Song of the Sentimental Barbe “One Kiss Hair We Part!’ 1 guess that's filling space, hey | Mr. Editor? Did 1 tell you about the ver- satile Chinese gent who tended the Emperor's vegeta arden and worked in the royal tonsorial parlors in his spare time? Well, he got good pay, all right, but he | sure had to mind his peas and queues, A thought for today ... y / Bess SSS It doesn’t take as broad- |< {guitl SSS == = minded an employer as might be = SSS supposed to believe that the SEES | striker is al ays riot. The tender-hearted nature lover clothes the limbs of his shade —Jagerra trees with warm woolen stockings during the cold spell. comicbooks.com