Judge — June 22, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Top cartoon ("Accounted For"):** A teacher scolds a student named Thomas for drawing a crooked map, which Thomas explains is intentionally accurate—it's a map of New York City. The joke satirizes NYC's famously irregular street grid and geography, which deviate from the orderly rectangular patterns found in most American cities. **Bottom cartoon ("Looking the Part"):** A woman asks an Irish or Scottish laborer about his nationality. He responds "I'm a canny Scot," playing on ethnic stereotypes about Scottish frugality and thriftiness (the word "canny" meaning shrewd with money). The humor relies on period stereotyping of immigrant nationalities and their supposed character traits. Both cartoons reflect early 20th-century American humor based on geography and ethnic stereotypes.