Judge, 1922-02-18 · page 15 of 36
Judge — February 18, 1922 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains three separate satirical pieces mocking contemporary concerns: 1. **The main illustration** depicts a woman consulting a specialist doctor about her baby's illness, only to be told it's mosquito bites—a wasteful expense when she'd planned to buy a jade cigarette holder. This satirizes women's newfound consumer spending and the era's obsession with luxury goods. 2. **"Divorce wave" commentary** references the increase in British divorces and sarcastically suggests Britain shouldn't worry since it "rules the waves"—a patriotic boast undermined by domestic instability. 3. **The final quip** mocks male vanity, suggesting men concerned about aging should wear B.V.D.'s (underwear brand) in public, implying they'd change their views about women's aging if exposed to ridicule themselves. All three pieces satirize 1920s social anxieties: consumerism, marriage dissolution, and gender relations.
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“Girls, motherhood has many problems. Baby got big red spots all over, and I couldn't find a thing about it in the book, so I got a specialist up here. He said, ‘mosquito bites,’ and there went the twenty dollars I meant to put into a jade cigarette holder.” A divorce wave is sweeping Great Bootleggers to right of them, Boot- Maybe if the bird who thinks a Britain and causing much worriment. leggers to left of them, woman shows her age quicker than a Why worry? Doesn't Britannia still Into the Valley of Drought rode the man, went around in B.V.D.’s all the rule the waves? Four hundred! time he might change his opinion.