Judge — January 14, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# "Too Much So" This satirical cartoon from *Judge* magazine depicts two elegantly dressed women in elaborate Edwardian gowns engaged in conversation. The caption reads: "Too sentimental?" "Very! She will even weep over her old divorce papers." The satire targets wealthy society women and the casualness of divorce among the upper classes. The joke centers on excessive sentimentality—the notion that a woman would cry over divorce papers as if they were romantic memorabilia, rather than legal documents ending a marriage. This mocks both the trivialization of divorce in high society and the artificial emotionality of elite women. The cartoon suggests that among the wealthy, divorce had become common enough to be treated as a sentimental keepsake, satirizing changing social attitudes toward marriage dissolution.