Judge, 1928-12-15 · page 31 of 36
Judge — December 15, 1928 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical jokes typical of Judge's humor, plus period advertisements: **The cartoons mock everyday frustrations:** - A "wonder watch" that never shows the correct time - Deferred payment avoidance (deferring payment of deferred payments) - A boss firing his secretary via dictaphone—a new technology allowing remote communication, treated as impersonal and absurd **The "Rag-a-bone Man" sketch** (top left) depicts a street vendor in comedic haste. **"Say It With Scotchograms"** advertises a novelty gift book—puns on Scottish dialect phrases for Christmas cards, playing on the ethnic humor common to the era. **Advertisements** include travel (Bermuda hotel), and prominently, **Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking Tobacco**, featuring period copy emphasizing "mildness" and Christmas gift-giving. The page reflects 1920s consumer culture, modern technology anxiety, and casual ethnic stereotyping typical of Judge's demographic: middle-class readers amused by labor inconveniences and commercial product pitches.
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-A’right! A’right! Tl call for you ter- morrow. - Tatcen “What kind ef watch have you A wonder “Wonder ch! of that before.” “Well, itts like this. Every time I look at it I wonder what time it is.” Never heard —Tir Bits “What do you do when your deferred payments fall du “Me? Oh, L defer” paying them.” —Everynopy’s Weexiy Office Caller—Where are you going in such a hurry? Boss—Sh! I'm leaving. I've just sacked my secretary by the dictaphone. —Answers COME TO BERMUDA STOP AT ELBOW BEACH Hotel and Villas 7 HAROLD PITH, Manac ’Twas denied before Jes THAT GALAHAD TRIED ARTICHOKE ME FEW SEER CAESAR CAUTIOUS CRAZY Christmas Annul through douse No creatures were stirring Not even demise. The stockings wrung fundamental with care In upset St, Nicholas soon would bidder. THIS YEAR Make up your own Christmas cards. “SAY IT WITH SCOTCHOGRAMS” The cleverest little book of the ar will help you to do it. Contains humorous messages for all occasions. A Dictionary of over 250 words and phrases to use in writing Scotchograms and how to play Scotcho- gram games. Send $1.00 to Judge Publishing Company at 627 W. 43rd Street, New York City, for your own copy, a remember that “Say It With Scotchograms” is the ideal book to give your Scotch friends. A pound of chieer tostart / the yeare Wirt the Yule log burning brightly and a pound canister beside him of the mildest, most fragrant pipe mixture that ever came out of the South— what more could a man ask? Give him the pound can of Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking Tobacco for Christmas. It’s protected inside by heavy gold foil and the canister comes in a handsome Christmas carton. Browa & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Winston-Salem and Louiwille SIR WALTER RALEIGH Who discovered how good a pipe can be milder comicbooks.com