Judge, 1929-04-13 · page 31 of 36
Judge — April 13, 1929 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains three separate humor items: 1. **Latima Cigarettes Advertisement** (top): A full-page ad claiming cigarettes differ meaningfully based on price—a sales pitch suggesting consumers get what they pay for in "tobacco-goodness." 2. **"Suspicious Agreement"** (bottom left): A joke about a military officer in Bombay complimenting another's wife's lipstick taste, implying infidelity. The humor relies on the second officer's casual agreement, suggesting he's unknowingly validated the flirtation. 3. **Colonial Satire** (bottom right): A brief exchange where "Archibald" mentions Venice flooding, followed by a cartoon about a Foreign Office official presenting someone's wife to an Indian Sultan ("Tamnagalore"). The wife apparently asks the Sultan to convince her husband to give her to the Sultan instead—satirizing both colonial condescension toward non-European rulers and marital discord. The page emphasizes period concerns: advertising claims, infidelity humor, and British imperial attitudes toward colonial subjects.
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STATEMENT OF TIE owNERSTHD, ATION, HEQUIG S8OF AUGUST 2 New ¥ Wes... and what a whale of a difference just a few cents make A definite extra price for a definite extra tobacco-goodness atima_ 'GARETTES Liocett & Mytas Tonacco Co. Suspicious Agreement At a military dance in Bombay officer said to another, as t urned for refreshments, “I « t know how it is, but my wife's lipstick always tastes di ferent from and he carefully “Yes, doesn’t it?” remarked the other absent-mindedly. —Boston Transcript James — How did you like Venice? “That's Jarndyce of the Foreign Office. He's presenting my Archibald—I only stayed a few nvife to the Sultan of Tamnagalore to-morrow.” days. The place was flooded! —I suppose you couldn't persuade him to give the Sultan —Tur Hesontst mine, too?” —Loxpox Orixtox a - = — comicbooks.com