Judge — October 16, 1915 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a satirical illustration titled "At the Country Club, Detroit" depicting a woman named Mae with two male suitors by a lakeside country club setting. The joke critiques women's materialism by presenting Mae as unable to choose between two men based on love—only on their earning potential. One suitor represents "small salary," the other "high wages." The humor reflects early-20th-century anxieties about women's independence and financial motivations in marriage, satirizing the notion that women calculated matrimonial decisions purely on economic grounds rather than affection. The signature appears to be "Tilman." The illustration style and setting suggest this likely dates to the 1910s-1920s era of Judge magazine.