Judge — July 21, 1923 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two separate cartoons by Gilbert Wilkinson satirizing rural/working-class speech and behavior. **Top cartoon:** A woman complains about acquiring "dumb animals," saying "Ye can't get 'em dumb enough for me!" The scene shows a farmyard with various people and animals, mocking rustic dialect and the difficulty of finding sufficiently unintelligent livestock or perhaps servants. **Bottom cartoon:** A man in a boat addresses another man on shore using exaggerated dialectal speech ("How much longer ye goin' to be, you pig-faced son of a—!"). His companion responds in equally crude vernacular. The cartoon ridicules working-class waterfront speech patterns and manners. Both cartoons employ heavy dialect humor and class-based mockery typical of early 20th-century American satire, presenting rural/working-class figures as crude and intellectually inferior for comedic effect.