Judge — February 5, 1916 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Judge* contains several short satirical pieces with accompanying verse, typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines. The photograph at top shows silhouetted figures in a snowy winter scene at Wellesley College, captioning a brief anecdote about a woman named Mabel repeatedly taking her suitor Jack Goodwell to "the point" — likely a scenic overlook — with the running joke that nothing romantic happens (she forgets tradition). Below are four humor pieces: 1. **"Song of the Commercial Salesman"** — satirizes traveling salesmen's persistence and self-deception about their appeal to women 2. **"Ineffective"** — mocks a traveling salesman's poor sales technique and outdated methods 3. **"The Connoisseur"** — pokes fun at wealthy old men obsessed with collecting antiquities and their much-younger wives 4. **"No Danger of Collision"** — a brief, cryptic quip about hustlers The humor targets conventional early-20th-century male archetypes: the ineffectual salesman, the lecherous collector, and confidence men. The satire is genteel rather than biting.