Judge — April 8, 1916 — page 13: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a social commentary cartoon set at a San Antonio country club. The illustration shows women observing a golf lesson, with dialogue below addressing three perspectives on a male golfer's poor performance. **The satire:** - **"What Did He Mean?"**: A woman dismisses the golfer's excuse about his cigar, calling it a "burning shame" - **"Heredity"**: Another woman attributes his poor play to genetics, mentioning his grandmother was a "weather prophet" (implying inherited incompetence) - **"Neutrals"**: The final characters hope both sides "win" in an apparent reference to WWI neutrality debates The cartoon satirizes how people rationalize failure differently—through immediate excuses, hereditary determinism, or detached neutrality. It reflects early-20th-century anxieties about inherited traits and contemporary debates over America's WWI stance, wrapped in leisured country-club humor.