Judge — May 15, 1920 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# Judge Magazine, May 25, 1920 This illustration satirizes the purchase of automobiles by wealthy women. The caption reads: "Lookit, Sadie, Lookit the Dame with the Limousine Body in' the One-Cylinder Mind!" The cartoon depicts a well-dressed woman in a hat and fur stole examining a car at what appears to be a dealership or showroom, while onlookers (including a character apparently named "Sadie") mock her. The satire suggests that this fashionable woman is foolishly buying an expensive, luxury automobile ("limousine body") despite lacking the intelligence ("one-cylinder mind") to operate or appreciate it properly. This reflects 1920s anxieties about women's newfound economic independence and consumer power following World War I and the approaching suffrage amendment.