Judge — November 25, 1922 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This humor page satirizes Yellowstone tourists through character types. The sketches mock: **School-teachers' trips**: Rangers must supervise these groups carefully, suggesting teachers were accident-prone tourists. **"Dudes"**: Well-dressed outsiders in fancy checkered coats, contrasted with practical park-goers. **Fashion inconsistency**: The "camping wardrobe" joke—clothing varies wildly depending on the wearer's actual experience level. **Hiking rebranding**: The final caption's wit—what used to be called "hoboism" (vagrant wandering) is now respectable "hiking," reflecting 1920s-30s tourism trends where working-class travel became romanticized leisure. The page presents Yellowstone as attracting diverse, often ill-prepared visitors, with rangers and park staff managing various tourist types. The humor relies on social class observations and the contrast between tourists' pretensions and reality.