Judge — September 25, 1915 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

The main illustration depicts two women at the Seaview Golf Club in Atlantic City. The cartoon satirizes social pretension and class aspiration among the leisure class during the Jazz Age. The accompanying text snippets—"Truth in High Places," "At the Formal Dinner," "In Church," and "The Difference"—suggest this is part of a larger satirical feature about the gap between how people present themselves publicly versus their private behavior and thoughts. The illustration itself appears to mock the artificiality of upper-class social gatherings, where women dressed in fashionable attire engage in superficial conversation while positioned near an expensive automobile and grand estate—visual markers of wealth meant to impress. The overall satire targets the performative nature of 1920s high society, where maintaining appearances and social status took precedence over authenticity.