Judge — November 27, 1915 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Cover, November 27, 1915 This cover illustration by James Montgomery Flagg depicts a fashionably dressed woman in winter attire, carrying a golf bag and holding a telephone receiver on a cord. The caption "AREN'T YOU COMING ALONG?" serves as the punch line. The satire likely mocks the "New Woman" of the 1910s—women gaining independence through activities like golf and telephone use (then still relatively novel). The woman appears to be inviting someone (presumably a man) to join her leisure activities, inverting traditional gender roles where men typically initiated social plans. This reflects contemporary anxieties and humor about women's expanding social freedoms and changing expectations in early 20th-century America, presenting these changes as both modern and slightly absurd to Judge's audience.