Judge — March 22, 1919 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# Judge Magazine, March 22, 1919 This cartoon by Walter de Maris depicts a domestic disagreement between a couple about church attendance. The woman, dressed for an outing with luggage, suggests her companion "could go to church just one Sunday." He responds, "I'm rather afraid to, dear, habits are so easily formed." The humor inverts typical moral expectations: instead of warning *against* forming bad habits, the man humorously suggests that *attending church* might become an addictive habit he cannot break. This plays on post-WWI anxieties about social obligation and personal autonomy, gently mocking both religious reluctance and the fear that one good deed might lead to unwanted lifestyle changes—a satirical jab at selective morality and male resistance to domestic expectations.