Judge — January 24, 1920 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Social Maps Also Are Changing" This cartoon satirizes changing social class dynamics and women's labor. A well-dressed woman stands outside a domestic interior, confronting a maid about missing laundry pickup on Tuesday. The maid responds that she's been "waiting and waiting" for pay, then states she can "leave off waitin'" because "We Make and little Tim bringin' $14 into the flat every Sat'dy night I'm a-sendin' me own wash out." The satire critiques shifting economic power: a working-class maid now earns enough household income (from family members' wages) to outsource her own laundry—reversing traditional servant-employer relationships. The title suggests social hierarchies are reorganizing through industrialization and women's economic participation, threatening genteel domestic arrangements.