Judge — March 26, 1921 — page 25: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page features "Honorable Mention" cartoons—entries in what appears to be a satirical contest about rejected suitors. The central illustration shows a woman in fashionable dress, surrounded by smaller sketches depicting men's broken promises. The satire mocks men who court women while making grand declarations about their future accomplishments, then fail to deliver within two years. The contrasting panels—labeled "What they said they would do" versus "what each did within two years"—reveal the gap between male boasting and actual achievement. This reflects early 20th-century social commentary about courtship expectations and male unreliability. The cartoons ridicule suitors' grandiose claims about becoming successful, wealthy, or accomplished, exposing how romantic promises often evaporate after marriage or rejection. The page contains multiple individual cartoons by various artists, all contributing to this theme of male pretension and disappointment.