Judge — October 28, 1922 — page 14: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a domestic comedy scene drawn by S. Werner. Two women—likely a daughter (seated) and mother (standing)—discuss the daughter's romantic disappointment. The daughter remarks that being "jilted" (abandoned by a romantic partner) was terrible, but she recognized his experience from their first kiss. The mother's witty response—"He must have thought that way, too"—delivers the satirical punch: she implies the man's "experience" with women (his skill at seduction) was precisely *why* he abandoned this particular woman. The humor relies on the mother's sardonic observation that a man practiced at romance would naturally move on to other conquests. The ornate interior setting with decorative urns suggests genteel, middle-class domesticity, making the frank discussion of romantic experience notably candid for the era.