Judge, 1922-10-21 · page 21 of 36
Judge — October 21, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes Prohibition-era home cultivation. The title and images celebrate domestic fruit-growing with double meanings—"vinting" wine and producing "a dozen quarts in the cellar" are euphemisms for illegal alcohol production. The top image shows a French family operating a wine press, praised for their fermentation wisdom. The cherry and grape references mock Americans' attempts to circumvent Prohibition by growing fruits ostensibly for eating, but actually for homemade wine and liquor production. The satire celebrates this domestic defiance of alcohol restrictions as a "family affair" involving "the entire household"—suggesting Prohibition enforcement was widely flouted through home production. The cartoonist endorses this common practice as clever, practical, and characteristically French.
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rege GROWIN’ "EM The Frenchman has always been wise in his own fermentation. He vints his own It’s a family affair, this cherry-growing industry, and en- gages the sympa- thetic services of the entire household The man who grows grapes where flowers once did bloom gets the same horticultural effect plus a dozen quarts in the cellar