Judge — January 10, 1920 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# "Still Happy" - Judge Magazine, January 10, 1920 This cartoon by Rea Irvin depicts an elderly man contentedly smoking a pipe while operating an old-fashioned coffee percolator on a table beside him. The title "Still Happy" and the Prohibition-era dating suggest this is satirizing Americans adapting to the newly-enacted 18th Amendment (January 1920). The joke appears to be that despite Prohibition's ban on alcohol, this figure remains cheerful—likely because he can still enjoy other pleasures like coffee and tobacco, which remained legal. The cartoon may mock both Prohibition advocates who believed the law would improve society, and those who found simple workarounds to maintain their contentment during the ban. The inset profile portrait's purpose remains unclear from the visible text.