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# "His Baggage" - Judge Magazine, June 25, 1910 This satirical cartoon depicts a newlywed couple with excessive luggage labeled "Just Married." The woman wears an elaborate hat and fashionable dress; the man carries paperwork. The humor critiques the burden of marriage—specifically the expectation that husbands must support their wives' material demands and lifestyle expenses. The "baggage" is double-meaning: literal suitcases representing the wife's possessions and accessories, but also figurative "baggage" meaning obligations and financial responsibility. The exaggerated hat size emphasizes how women's fashion extravagance was perceived as financially burdensome to newlywed husbands. This reflects early 20th-century gender anxieties about marriage and consumerism, where wives were stereotyped as expensive dependents with expensive tastes.