Judge — February 4, 1922 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Judge* contains four separate humor pieces about courtship and marriage, typical of early-20th-century American satirical magazine content. The main cartoon depicts a man and woman meeting in a park; the woman reveals she previously had him arrested for the same romantic line. The satire targets men's predictable, recycled seduction tactics and their shamelessness in reusing them. The four text pieces below mock various relationship behaviors: a stingy man who withholds compliments, a recently divorced man who immediately remarries (suggesting shallow commitment), a woman claiming divorce relief "relieves the housing shortage," and another woman who divorced specifically to remarry herself off as a maid—satirizing women's limited economic independence and the desperation that marriage represents. The overall theme ridicules both genders' marriage behaviors while highlighting the era's social attitudes toward divorce (still scandalous), courtship etiquette, and women's economic dependence on matrimony.