Judge, 1904-03-05 · page 15 of 16
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This single-panel cartoon satirizes working-class social climbing and pretension. The image shows a poor family (identifiable by their shabby clothing and humble tenement setting) attempting to host a formal party. A woman in worn dress serves refreshments to guests in what appears to be a cramped, poorly-furnished room. The caption—"Please, miss, mother says she's not 'at home' to-day. You see, she's trimmin' her 'at to go to a party"—reveals the joke: the mother is so eager to attend a social gathering that she's using a transparent excuse (claiming she's "not at home") to avoid receiving a visitor, all while frantically preparing her hat. The satire targets the aspirational behavior of poor urbanites trying to participate in middle-class social conventions they can barely afford. The humor comes from the absurdity of lower-class people adopting the pretenses and mannerisms of their social betters—"slum up-to-date" suggesting their clumsy, outdated mimicry of fashionable society life.
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