Judge — December 3, 1892 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Top Cartoon ("The Supreme Moment"):** A newly engaged couple discusses seeing her father. The joke: the woman fears her father will be angry about the dressmaker's bill, but the fiancé (Tom Featherhead) welcomes meeting him because he hopes the expensive bill will make the father eager to marry her off—thus getting rid of her as his financial burden. This satirizes both the mercenary aspects of Victorian courtship and the stereotype of expensive women's fashion consumption. **Bottom Cartoon ("The Usual Way"):** A man newly arrived from Connecticut at a mining camp (Red Gulch) asks a store clerk where to buy "cowboy suit" attire. The satire targets Eastern tourists visiting the West who arrive with romantic, theatrical notions of frontier life and attempt to costume themselves as "cowboys"—poking fun at both naive Eastern urbanites and their fantasized version of the Wild West.