Judge — January 22, 1916 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains multiple brief satirical vignettes set at an exclusive country club, targeting upper-class social conventions of the early 20th century. The main cartoon depicts well-dressed women at Englewood Country Club. The satire addresses the emerging problem of commuter husbands—wealthy men who travel daily for work, leaving their wives isolated in suburban settings despite being married. Helen's friend Eugenia notes that Belle's fiancé "commutes," explaining her melancholy. The surrounding text snippets mock other social pretensions: women's fashion obsessions ("Dolly's Dress"), romantic hand-holding etiquette, misidentification of birds, and the vapidity of actresses in silent films. The closing line—"O, where will Dolly be?"—appears to question women's agency and identity within these constrained social roles. The humor targets the leisure class's shallow concerns and the isolation created by modern commuting patterns, a relatively new phenomenon at this time.