Judge — November 18, 1922 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page satirizes **Naval Academy regulations** governing midshipmen's conduct during social dancing. The illustration depicts officers monitoring midshipmen dancing with women while maintaining prescribed distance ("at least four inches away"). The quoted poem above the image—beginning "Lives there a man with soul so dead"—mocks the restrictive rules by suggesting they're emotionally deadening. The regulation quote below emphasizes the absurdity: midshipmen must dance decorously with "no pump-handle motion of their arms." The satire targets the Navy's attempt to enforce rigid propriety during social interaction. By pairing overly formal regulations with the melodramatic poem, **Judge** ridicules institutional control over young officers' personal behavior, suggesting such restrictions are both laughable and soul-crushing.