Judge — April 29, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This cartoon shows a child who has drawn a crude face on a globe with a line of stitches across it, creating a grotesque appearance. The caption reads "I WONDER IF THE TEACHER WILL SEE THE JOKE?" The humor appears to target either the child's crude prank or, more likely, the teacher's intelligence—suggesting the teacher might miss or fail to understand the "joke" of defacing the educational globe. The visible letters "A, B, C, D" on the blackboard reinforce this is a classroom setting. The satire likely mocks either schoolchildren's mischief or, alternatively, teachers' lack of perception. The stitched mouth particularly suggests the globe has been deliberately mutilated to look monstrous—a prank the child hopes will go unnoticed or appreciated by authority figures.