Judge — March 23, 1918 — page 2: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains a humorous short story titled "At This Juncture Mrs. Lane Returned with an Assortment of Keys," illustrated with three small cartoon panels showing domestic scenes. The narrative depicts a husband and wife locked out of their basement, frantically trying different keys to regain entry. The comedy derives from the wife's escalating frustration and the husband's increasingly desperate attempts, including discovering a loose iron grating and attempting to climb through it—resulting in a fall. The satire targets domestic incompetence and marital friction over household management. The wife's persistence ("I shall call them up about it"), the husband's reluctant compliance, and their encounters with neighbors form the humorous backbone. This reflects early 20th-century anxieties about middle-class home ownership and the complications of urban apartment living, common themes in Judge magazine's social commentary.