Judge — March 3, 1900 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several humorous sketches satirizing early 20th-century American life and social conventions: **"More Desirable"** mocks English pronunciation pretensions, with a poem suggesting Americans prefer dropping "r's" to affected English accents. **"She Has Learned"** jokes about a woman claiming to understand "Washington's greatness" by citing that George Washington had red hair—satirizing superficial education. **"Judge's Favorites"** and subsequent farm scenes humorously depict rural life mishaps, including a hunter defying doctor's orders to use a flying machine for hunting. **"How He Kept Off"** shows a professor using the flying machine to escape hunting obligations, with the final panel titled "How the machine worked," likely depicting an absurd failure—satirizing both early aviation enthusiasm and the impracticality of emerging technology.