Judge — January 4, 1902 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two satirical cartoons about vagrancy and homelessness in early 1900s America. **"The End of the Honeymoon"** mocks a newly married couple's naïveté. A woman reports a tramp attempted to kiss her; her husband dismissively assumes the vagrant was simply trying to get arrested for winter shelter—a common practice among homeless men seeking jail's warmth and food. The satire targets the couple's obliviousness to urban poverty. **"The Real Victims"** is meta-satire: it features "Humorous Hinckley" (likely a Judge contributor) complaining that editors of comic weeklies see tramps constantly—making them, not the homeless themselves, the real sufferers. The joke critiques how satirical magazines relentlessly mock the poor for entertainment. Together, these cartoons reveal Judge's somewhat contradictory stance: mocking both the ignorant wealthy and the homeless poor, while also self-aware about the publication's own exploitation of social misery for humor.