Judge — May 14, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical cartoon targets a public health advocate—likely a doctor or temperance/health reformer—who preaches nutritional and moral virtue while practicing the opposite. The left panel shows him as "the man who writes advice to people to eat little," while the right depicts him eating lavishly at a well-stocked dinner table. The middle sections mock his further hypocrisy: he recommends exercise after meals but takes naps instead; he advises abstaining from tobacco while smoking heavily. The bottom panel shows him at a nightclub drinking and carousing—violating all his stated principles about restraint and late hours. The caption concludes: "The man who preaches one thing and practices another." The satire exposes the gap between public morality lectures and private indulgence, a timeless critique of sanctimonious reformers.