Judge, 1919-09-27 · page 12 of 36
Judge — September 27, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# "Guy From the City" - Judge Magazine Comic This is a multi-panel comic satirizing wealthy college students visiting poor relatives. Rich college cousins arrive to "entertain" their scraggly country cousins with promises of fun. The visiting students are depicted as vain and self-important—boasting about college football teams and their own superiority—while treating their rural relatives as entertainment subjects rather than genuine family. The humor relies on class contrast: the well-dressed, confident city students condescend to their shabby country counterparts, who respond with bewilderment and their own crude antics (rough behavior, poor manners). The final panel references "Charlie" appearing "as a Peace Commissioner" next week, suggesting this series continues. The satire mocks both groups—the snobbish pretense of wealthy college youth and the backwardness stereotypically attributed to rural Americans in early 20th-century popular culture.
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