Judge — September 18, 1920 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (September 18, 1920) This illustration by Walter De Mars depicts a domestic scene playing on anxieties about aging and mortality. A man in formal military dress stands over a bedridden woman, holding what appears to be a large magnifying glass or monocle. The caption reads: "Hobby—Do you realize that when you are seventy-five you will have spent twenty-five years in bed? If so—Then an extra hour or two now won't matter." The joke targets hypochondriacs or people overly concerned with health habits. The "hobby" is obsessing about sleep and time spent in bed. The satire suggests that worrying excessively about rest duration is absurd given the inevitability of aging and prolonged bedrest in old age—so one might as well indulge now.