Judge, 1929-01-19 · page 4 of 36
Judge — January 19, 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several humor pieces satirizing 1920s American domestic life and consumer culture: **"The Scotchman on the Corner"** depicts a Scottish immigrant doing street calculations—figuring potential profits from selling chestnuts and roasted items while waiting for his wife. The joke plays on Scottish stereotypes of frugality and commercial shrewdness. **"Wives, Husbands and Company"** mocks marital dynamics, suggesting wives drop their good behavior when company arrives, while husbands remain consistent. **"The Beauty of Radio"** praises radio as entertainment requiring no effort. **"Inside Dope"** and **"Missing"** are brief comedic anecdotes about laundry mix-ups and dental work—typical domestic humor. The bottom cartoon shows a woman advising a man ("Joe") to visit a dentist before a date, suggesting vanity and courtship anxieties of the era.
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The city goes in for modern furnishings. Wives, Husbands and Company If knives are dropped, it means company’s coming. Company for the wife. If company’s coming for the husband, and he announces it, the lives aren't dropped; they're thrown along with the rest of the tableware. The man who says he knows women is the hind that women no. All it takes to start a love nest is a little down. The Beauty of Radio Isn't the radio a wonderful thing? Think of the jazz bands, the wisecracking announcements, the sopranos, the bedtime stories, the political speeches, the after- dinner speeches, the lessons in foreign languages, the poetry, the talks and the thousand and one other things you can silence with one little turn of a dial. R. C. O'Brien Inside Dope Cop—Aren't. you afraid to leave your raccoon coat there in the rumble seat? Motorist—It's all right, officer, a friend of mine is inside mind ing it. “1 don't hold much % place before your face busts. The Scotchman on the Corner A policeman noticed a Scotch- man on a street corner writing on his cuff, erasing the figures and then putting down new ones. “What are you doing?” asked p. mwa answered th for my wife,” Scotchman; “she said she'd meet me at two and I've been waiting an hour and a half. “But what are you figuring asked the cop. “Well,” answered the kiltie, “if chestnuts sell for fifteen cents a pound raw and sell for ten cents a cup roasted, [im figuring out how much money [could have made while [ve been waiting here if [T had only thought to bring along a stand and a little charcoal stove.” —R. C. O'Brien Missing A Telephone Conversation. “Is this the laundry? This is Jones. [didn’t get my cuffs back in that package you just’ de livered.” “We have no record that you sent any cuffs. Are you. sure you did?" “Sure; I got the shirt here they ‘© torn off.” The more style there is to an evening gown the less there is of anything else. ith dentists, Joe, but you better go some comicbooks.com