Judge — July 1, 1922 — page 25: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

These are two separate satirical cartoons by Gilbert Wilkinson, both sourced from the British magazine *Passing Show* (not originally from Judge, despite the page header). **Top cartoon:** A working-class sister advises her brother's boxing challenger to remove his coat, claiming her brother "always examines the 'eart afore 'e 'its"—a crude joke about examining an opponent's chest/heart before punching. The dialect ("yer," "'eart," "'its") establishes these as lower-class characters. **Bottom cartoon:** A senior person criticizes someone for getting "worse and worse, every day, in every way"—likely a reference to Émile Coué's famous self-help mantra "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better," popular in the 1920s. The cartoon mocks this optimistic philosophy by inverting it, suggesting the opposite is happening. Both cartoons use class-specific humor and cultural references to satirize contemporary attitudes and fads.